Review: interesting
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
2.5 starsI have read many contemporary romance novels with older couples, late 30s and 40s, But this is my first historical.  It was a refreshing change.I liked the heroine, but she was to eager to defend his choice.  I would have never told him... You had to do it.  I did love the relationship she had with her neice.  Can't wait to read her book.I loved the hero.  I felt like he was weak for letting others dictate his life, but I loved the fact that he never forgot her.  I could feel the pain he was in, when I read his inner dialogue.I did have some major issues with this book though.  I do not understand how his mother could force him how to do anything.  He was the duke.  He was age, so she should not have had a say in his life.  In fact, I don't think she would have a say in his life if he was young.  There would have been a male appointed guardian.  So her forcing him to marry someone else just confused me.Also, I was surprised to see a splinter living alone.  In all movies and books I've read, society females live with people.  She may have been a third daughter, but her father did hold a title.  She didn't work, but it never explained where her money came from.  It just seemed out.Another major issue I had was her nieces age.  In the beginning, she says she is going to the county to care for her neice.  (She has one married sibling, with only one neice.). Skip ahead 30 years, she is still acting as her nieces chaperone.  I'm not sure if they ever said her nieces exact age, but I believe she us in her early 20s.  This did not add up.I realize timelines are hard to get just right, but that is years off.  Every time she talked about her niece or her niece was in the book, it reminded me of the error.  That alone took dropped my rating down.