Review: A good novel despite many problems
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2014
I do not know why I want to give this novel a four star rating.  This book has too many errors of fact in it as well as the phenomena I see in many historical novels written by a modern woman.  They all seem to want their female characters to think and act like the women of today.  Ok, you say, "This is a NOVEL.  It doesn't have to have FACTS."  True, but it sends the wrong message to the younger readers.  It makes them think that people in the past knew they were wrong when they did or said things that today are not politically correct.  I hate to see history changed by people who mean well but take away from how life really was back then.  But this is not quite as bad as having a ship anchor in the middle of the ocean not one but two or three times!So why do you see my four star rating?  Part of this is that I may be intimidated by the author's good reputation and number of readers that like her.  But the main reason is that after finishing the novel, I realized the author does indeed know how to write.  I don't want to go into more detail about the book except to say that as a guy, I should not even have read it.  This is a "chick" novel.  (I hope that is not politically incorrect to say.)I have just one additional comment.  I can't believe any woman would be as nave as the main character was.  This is especially hard to understand when she had four younger wards under her who obvious knew much more about such "unthinkable" matters than she did.  Yes, ok, this is NOVEL....I know. On the good side, this novel makes good reading so it gets four stars.