Sarah W. (lucyhoneychurch) reviewed on 9/11/2012 + 12 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

This book alternated between enthralling and aggravating. On the one hand the prose was beautiful if, at times, pretentious and somewhat overblown. Some of these scenes were truly evocative and moving. However the author did not seem to have done much research in terms of historical accuracy. This book was supposed to take place around the same period as Austen and if you have ever ready anything authentically written at that time you'll be very disappointed at all the inaccuracies, from clothes to speech, and especially in the social norms which so governed behavior and attitudes in the British Empire at the time. Although these inaccuracies drove me crazy as I read, I still couldn't put the book aside. It is a fairly well-written (if not well researched) Gothic bodice-ripper; thrilling and harrowing and, in the end, lots of fun.

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