Review: Very sweet story follows Jane Austen’s style
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2013
Warning: Spoiler alertThe story portraits a young woman (Lydia) and her sister in need of help after their parent’s deaths. They go separate ways for a while, the younger one staying with the good aunt while stays with the bad one (Mrs. Abdale). She has two cousins, Charles and Julia, being Charles the villain character of the novel. Lydia’s character is appropriate for the time period, although I felt her to be a little nave for believing Charles was harmless.While staying with her aunt, she makes Lydia work for her stay with no pay and tries to humiliate her but Lydia has a strong character and holds her own very well. She meets two brothers who live close and seems to fall in love with one of them while her cousin Julia likes the other. As the reader may expect, there is happy ending after some struggles in Lydia’s life after she leaves Abdale’s house because of an incident which was Charles’ fault. I missed that the novel didn’t has an epilogue, since I always like to learn a little about the couple and Julia’s life.