Review: The Power of Love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2012
How do we each come about our own personal understanding of true love and it's link to marriage and family? Is it a tangible flowering thing of great beauty to the minds eye? Or an impressionistic illusion of beauty instilled by the smoke and mirrors of fairy tales handed down through the ages? The reader will definitely learn a thing or two about the power of love from this lively story of four beautiful, smart, and independent women. Marianne, who was continentally raised by a father who set more store in his readings, writings and coffee house discussions than in providing for his daughter, agrees to an independent marriage in order to begin her life. Eliza, who was more traditionally raised was married off to a man who gambled away both his fortune and her dowry, is motivated by jealousy and outrageously schemes herself to her  destiny. Susanna, who was a rather lonely, unwanted and neglected child who's need for any scrap of love accepted and nurtured a twisted, destructive form that crippled her emotionally. Charlotte, who's father was a master spy and undercover National hero who spent very little time at home with his loving daughter, has just left the school room and thanks to Marianne's guidance is being allowed to transition into her own bright independent self. Or is she?