08/31/2013 --Overall Rating = 5 Stars **considered a classic**Book Cover / Book Blurb / Book Title = 5 / 5 / 3 = 4.5 StarsWriter’s Voice = 4 StarsCharacter Development = 4 StarsStory Appreciation = 4 StarsWorth the Chili = 5 Stars -- [a classic]I started reading romance novels when I was a young gir...
This is such an excellent novel. The love story and attraction is compelling and real. The history and detail of the setting excellent. The characters are so richly drawn. I have reread it several times and just completed another reread. I can't recommend finding a copy of this book and rereading ...
Heroine returns to Tasmania from her 2-yr study in England to resume her engagement to her proper family friend & fiance. She begins to question herself & her place in life when she meets lifelong Irish convinct H. Her feelings become even more shaken when H is assigned as her groom & she gets to kn...
This book was too depressing for me. It seemed like things got worse and worse. I started to think, "How much can one woman suffer, and when is it going to get better" as I read. Not a good sign. It was such a downer for me, I started skimming, and while the writing is good, it's just too dark (in ...
3 ½ stars. Old Port Adelaide, by artist Robert Todonai I waffled on rating this one between 3 ½ stars to 4 stars. I liked this story set in Australia well enough; in fact, the setting was the best part. Ms. Proctor knows the country and its history and writes it well. However, I could not help th...
Night In Eden, by Candice Proctor★★★★★ Five full stars! An exceptional book; one of the best I’ve read so far this year.A realistic look at life in 1808, New South Wales and the struggle to carve out a life in a strange, forbidding land. Within just a few pages I was enthralled with the story! Th...
A rather misleading title for this book - there was nothing remotely like Eden to be found in the English colony at New South Wales, Australia, in 1809. The heroine has been convicted of killing her husband and transported to Australia, leaving a 3-year-old daughter behind in England and giving birt...
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