by Laura Kinsale
An entertaining minor book. In particular it has a suspense plot that's actually suspenseful, and with Folie, a charming heroine who has a gift for seeing the humor in everything (even in the middle of her wedding with a man she's sure hates her, a stray thought makes her smile) and a way with a qui...
Refreshingly different from your typical formulaic historical romance. Kinsale has a unique way of making a labyrinth of her plot lines just to get to the happily ever after. Definitely not flat or boring.
The book starts with an amazingly beautiful prologue, where the hero and heroine fall in love by letter before they meet in person. Unfortunately the rest of the book is bizarre and disorganized, filled with WTF moments, satisfying neither as a romance nor as a suspense novel. The 2 main characters,...
Folie's husband receives a letter from a 3rd cousin about some matter that his father had wanted to write to her husband about. Since her husband didn't think it was important to respond, she did and this started a pen pal relationship that developed into more with Robert. After her husband dies, ...
This book is a mess. The prologue is the most charming thing you will ever read, and there's one sex scene (in which no physical contact is quite made) which is the hottest thing EVER), but the plot is on even more crack than usual (poisoning drugging child abuse what?) and there are several subplo...
Really a 3.5. First half great, second half, not so great.
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