Review: Rather boring...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2012
I love historical fiction because I enjoy reading about how people lived back in the day.  This story was overflowing with vivid descriptions of the glory days of the early 1900s in New York society.  I enjoyed reading the descriptions of the various gala events and the way people dressed and treated each other.However, the story line was very lackluster.  No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get into the characters - they didn't compel me to like them.  It seemed that Rosedale was in love with a woman who really didn't care about him, but his own cousin was in love with him but he couldn't see it.Usually in a story there is an increasing amount of tension as the characters have struggles and problems along the way, culminating in a solution at the end.  This story was a straight line of one event after another with no real crisises to deal with.  Just boring to me.