Review: Read if You Love Romance!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2013
I was glad to see someone else saying it was unrealistic. I cannot imagine any woman in that time period gaining the easy acceptance this woman/girl did so you have to be able to just roll with all the implausabilities - especially the gender bending.  Plus the famouse Marie LaVeaux doing parlour readings?  I hated that part plus felt like it was added in just as a foreboding an easy out to establish the heroine's fears.However, for a typical kind of romance novel it was a fun read....one of those that you get so caught up in that you don't even really think about the implausabilities until you're done!SLIGHTLY SPOILERISH SPOILERS HERE....SPOILERISHBut I did love the man she marries, and found the complexities of her relationships interesting.  The book does seem to end abruptly, and I so wish we'd have been given more detail about Alain's time in "captivity;" and his three years making his fortune.  He was not a well liked character by me, especially with those three year's absence and his double standards, but oh, well; I assume he's supposed to be the hero of sorts?I also really wanted more telling of her feelings as she "recovered," not just time passing and events being thrust upon her.