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I read Lady Sophia's Christmas Knight and became interested in the other characters in the story and decided to go back to the beginning.
Grace Burrowes writes characters who are pretty well flushed out, have some complexities and their own unique foibles. I love the number of other characters, brothers, friends, family members so that the universe feels natural, not just two people in isolation.
With all the good stuff, the story seemed overly long, she could have easily eliminated 100 pages of fluff, and I found some of the character's (and perhaps author's) reversals of opinion to be jarring. For example initially the Duke wants Westhaven to marry at any cost, even his mistress would be acceptable. Then later expounds that he should marry someone he can truly love. There's an even more egregious example of this reversal but to explain it would give away the story.
I am also not so sure about how ordinary it would be for a peer to suddenly start spending a lot of social time with his housekeeper or for members of his family to think this would be a good marriage for him. Anyhow, not being an expert I'm not sure, but it felt a bit strange.
Overall the characters were all likeable and I look forward to reading more from this author.
Grace Burrowes writes characters who are pretty well flushed out, have some complexities and their own unique foibles. I love the number of other characters, brothers, friends, family members so that the universe feels natural, not just two people in isolation.
With all the good stuff, the story seemed overly long, she could have easily eliminated 100 pages of fluff, and I found some of the character's (and perhaps author's) reversals of opinion to be jarring. For example initially the Duke wants Westhaven to marry at any cost, even his mistress would be acceptable. Then later expounds that he should marry someone he can truly love. There's an even more egregious example of this reversal but to explain it would give away the story.
I am also not so sure about how ordinary it would be for a peer to suddenly start spending a lot of social time with his housekeeper or for members of his family to think this would be a good marriage for him. Anyhow, not being an expert I'm not sure, but it felt a bit strange.
Overall the characters were all likeable and I look forward to reading more from this author.
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