by Elizabeth Camden
** spoiler alert ** I enjoyed Against the Tide generally. The story was interesting and different and seems well-researched. However, I found it difficult to warm to the characters. I had already encountered Alexander Banefield and he was fascinating but his continual stubbornness and the blatant wa...
No wonder this book sounded overly preachy, it's Christian Fiction. I was raised Christian but this sort of preachy thing just doesn't work with me.
I've never read inspirational romance, but I'm trying to expand my horizons and get out of the English Regency rut, and I was intrigued by the prospect of a book set in Victorian Boston. The heroine is a Greek orphan who works as a translator for the Navy, on the cover she is looking out at a ship i...
keeps you on edge......
Word/phrase repetition and plot inconsistencies made this difficult for me to enjoy. Also, the lack of contractions in conversations made the dialogue sound stilted. Beautiful cover, though!
Amateurish writing, with lots of ill-timed Christian anvils.
NOTE: This review originally appeared at DearAuthor.com. I read an advance review copy provided by the publisher.Dear Ms. Camden,I’m always on the hunt for new and different in romance, and when it comes in the form of an inspirational historical suspense story centering on the opium trade in late 1...