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Dear Ms. Dickson,
I should have loved this book. It’s about one of my favorite times in history. Seventeenth century England. Cavaliers. Derring do. A time when history turned on a dime. And maybe 10 or 20 years ago I probably would have enjoyed it. But instead I found it boring, filled with little history lectures, overdramatic and peopled by characters I felt no sympathy for.
The heroine is young and is forced into a marriage by her father with a man she’s never even seen before the ceremony. She’s upset that she can’t marry the man she feels she loves and takes it out on Marcus. I have no problem with that. I do have a problem with her continued stupid actions that last throughout the entire book. The twit doesn’t learn. She stamps her feet and acts with no thought at all beyond twitting Marcus. He actually treats her very well considering the fact that after the marriage she hauls ass to Holland with a man not her husband or a relative then gets mad with Marcus for coming after her! Even though she admits to her maid that he probably will …
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