Review: Loved this story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
I received a copy of this story for a review. As an avid reader of romance in general and historical romance in particular, I was looking forward to reading it, and Ms. Raddon did not disappoint. The beginning is a little slow, but if the reader continues patiently, with a short number of pages, a passion the likes of which I scarcely ever encounter bursts over you like the tide.This book is sexy, but not gratuitous, well described without being tedious, and above all, filled with the most palpable, heart-rending emotions that are so real, you cannot help feeling them along with the characters.A brief synopsis: Bartholomew is a lighthouse keeper. He lives in this remote and beautiful spot with his nephew Pritchard, their old, salty sea dog of an assistant, and Hester, Bartholomew's mean-spirited and nasty wife of several years. When Pritchard decides to take on a mail order bride, his uncle is sent to the train station to fetch the girl.Ariah Scott is nothing like what he had expected, and the long journey from the train to the lighthouse leads to the Ariah and Bartholomew becoming friends. When bad weather leaves them stranded, the simmering attraction flares into a brief passion, quickly suppressed by the characters' honorable natures.So Ariah marries Pritchard, in an agony of desire for his uncle, and it's all downhill from there.I heard this book described as "Ethan Frome" with a happy ending, and having completed the book, I find this to be an apt description.If you like romance filled with powerful emotion, you should certainly consider this one. It will make you cry, and you won't want to put it down until you find out just how it can all come out right in the end.Ms. Raddon, well done. I enjoyed your book very much. I will definitely read more.