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I really enjoyed Courtney Milan's writing style. It is brisk while carrying enough detail of the place, time, and period to feel grounded and a bit edifying.
The hero, Gareth, is an extreme case of what we see in many real men. Inability to relate to emotion, to discussions of feeling, sensitivity to anything but themselves. He tries to solve everything through his brand of logic. He has is own troubled past and a lonely cold existence.
The heroine, Jenny, is an orphan who was somehow put through a boarding school filled with the gently bred. She knows social rules and refinement but hasn't the breeding or background to participate in society. She eschews being a governess or mistress and decides instead to be a fortune teller.
This is the part of the story that just doesn't quite work for me. While I liked her personality and strong character, I struggled with the notion of her playing the role of a gypsy fortune teller, that somehow a person of this ilk can live in a nicer neighborhood, and run a fortune telling business from her home in said neighborhood. Something about the premise of her earning a good living as a fortune teller just doesn't feel right. Perhaps Milan did research and found that they did live well and make decent money, but it didn't ring true.
That said, their personalities are more important than circumstance or jobs and that worked quite well. Plenty of steamy love scenes too.
Great first book from a new novelist.
The hero, Gareth, is an extreme case of what we see in many real men. Inability to relate to emotion, to discussions of feeling, sensitivity to anything but themselves. He tries to solve everything through his brand of logic. He has is own troubled past and a lonely cold existence.
The heroine, Jenny, is an orphan who was somehow put through a boarding school filled with the gently bred. She knows social rules and refinement but hasn't the breeding or background to participate in society. She eschews being a governess or mistress and decides instead to be a fortune teller.
This is the part of the story that just doesn't quite work for me. While I liked her personality and strong character, I struggled with the notion of her playing the role of a gypsy fortune teller, that somehow a person of this ilk can live in a nicer neighborhood, and run a fortune telling business from her home in said neighborhood. Something about the premise of her earning a good living as a fortune teller just doesn't feel right. Perhaps Milan did research and found that they did live well and make decent money, but it didn't ring true.
That said, their personalities are more important than circumstance or jobs and that worked quite well. Plenty of steamy love scenes too.
Great first book from a new novelist.
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