Historical Romance

Review: Eva Devon – The Spinster and the Rake

This book never really drew me in. The plot is uncomplicated as two people from different classes and with drastically different personalities are thrust together and come to love each other. I found it hard to stay engaged due to an excessive number of adjectives, abrupt time shifts, and disappearing items.

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Review: Kaye Dacus – Ransome’s Honor

Ransome’s Honor has a lot in common with one of my favorite books, Persuasion by Jane Austen. The main characters are both older with the maturity experience brings. The navy plays a large part as it is central to both Julia and William’s families. A close-knit group of family and friends are easy to fall in love with, and an engagement that never happened is in their past. It’s truly a pity that Julia and William were such frustrating characters who acted the opposite of their established backgrounds.

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Review: Laura Frantz – Tidewater Bride

Tidewater Bride is an intriguing look at early colonial life in Virginia. Everything is a study in contrasts: Old World vs. New World, Naturals vs. colonists, slavery vs. indenture. The vocabulary was my largest stumbling block in this book as I had to look up what different articles of clothing were as I had either never heard of them or did not know the difference between various items.

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