Janice - reviewed on 4/7/2013 + 631 more book reviews

Ordinarily I don't care for inspirationals romances as often they're way too preachy and written in too modern a style, with characters thinking and speaking about their actions and beliefs like current day people rather than as people in previous centuries would have done. Julie Klassen is an exception for me; her characters' faith informs their lives without that preachy tone. She shows religious faith as a source of personal guidance, not a rigid set of rules for *other people* to follow. She is realistic about the role of faith in her characters' lives. Her characters are not the completely secularized people I find in other regencies, but neither are they perfectionists obsessed with their beliefs. In this book our heroine has been raised in a wealthy home and when she leaves it she is face to face with the realities of life for the different class of people she joins, and she learns what "treat other people the way you wouid like to be treated yourself" really means, when she is treated the way she had treated others, and she is changed by her experiences. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes regencies, tales of the great houses, and just a good old fashioned 'what happens next' read.

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