An enjoyable and engrossing story! It is such a nice change of pace to have both the hero and heroine written as good, upstanding people. They are just caught up in circumstances that threaten to destroy their love for each other. These two are very easy to love and root for. I especially loved the fact that Benjamin respected and honored Pheobe's virtue enough to hold himself back until their wedding night (don't worry that was fairly soon in the book) Hooray! A truly honorable man, for a change!
Their reactions to some of the events, however, seemed extremely juvenile and at times, roll-your-eyes silly. At first one can make an allowance for Pheobe, she's young and naive, after all, but after having (supposedly) learned from her mistake, she immediately repeats it by staying in her room and refusing to speak to Benjamin for six (yes, SIX) days because he won't divulge her Mother's secret!?!? Benjamin, on the other hand is supposed to be older, wiser and more responsible to begin with, yet after their first fight, he runs aways for THREE weeks!! Hmmmm, see what I mean?
Their reactions to some of the events, however, seemed extremely juvenile and at times, roll-your-eyes silly. At first one can make an allowance for Pheobe, she's young and naive, after all, but after having (supposedly) learned from her mistake, she immediately repeats it by staying in her room and refusing to speak to Benjamin for six (yes, SIX) days because he won't divulge her Mother's secret!?!? Benjamin, on the other hand is supposed to be older, wiser and more responsible to begin with, yet after their first fight, he runs aways for THREE weeks!! Hmmmm, see what I mean?
