Review: Great historical fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2013
Other reviewers have covered the plot, so all I want to add was that the characters were perfectly believable, acting as people of their era would have acted, not as 21st century people. There were no glaring, jarring modernities. I kept rooting for a happy ending, even though I knew that this wasn't going to end happily- and indeed, if the author had found some way to provide a happy ending, I probably would have found it unrealistically unsatisfying. :) There are turns of phrases that can bring tears to your eyes, they're so apt. I highly recommend this book.