Why doesn't Amazon allow minus stars. This book didn't deserve 1 star but that was the lowest offered. The whole book was a disgrace, so where do I start?
Well the main character, Gaia, is inconsistent wavering between such a loving, caring soul to a selfish, self-centred individual only interested in her own embarrassment at being of mixed blood. Mind you she is so light coloured no-one has picked up on the fact she is a mulatto in all of her 20 years! Half way through she decides her loving, patient and kind step mother isn't all that bad and the father she has tried to impress for the past 20 years is the tyrant. Her relationship with her elder sister goes up and down like a yoyo. Her emotions for her prospective husbands flare up and wane on every second page. Her obsession with looking after her little brother is thrown out the window when her father says she is to remain in the house as his governess/carer. Then she can't get away quick enough but when offered the opportunity to leave she takes offence at the idea of being a governess elsewhere; the whole time thinking no-one will ever want to marry her because she is of mixed blood.At the end of the book she exhibits no qualms about leaving the little brother behind!
The hero was a little better though how he could not have perceived who his wife's lover was is beyond me.
There is so much praying and scriptures being quoted it was like a week of bible study without any real emotion. The author just kept throwing them in willy nilly.
Now as to the author's writing........ why wasn't this book edited? No one could possibly have overlooked her use of 'plodded'. I would love to have been able to do a search on the number of times this word was used, and used inappropriately. Plodded means to walk doggedly and slowly with heavy steps but Ms Riley used it for every movement or ambulation anyone took. Even the horses were being ridden so hard in a race to stop an elopement that they 'plodded along side by side'; people plodded into rooms, around dance floors, up and down stairs, taking the air, you name it - plodding, according to Ms Riley is the only way to get around. Oh, unless you want to traipse (to move tiredly or reluctantly) when you want to rush into someone's arms. Maybe she just used a thesaurus to avoid saying 'walked'. There were major errors throughout the book that any decent proof reader or editor would have picked up but instead caused irritation and distractions to the flow of the story.
The story had the most unsatisfactory ending. One could almost believe Ms Riley either ran out of paper or was called to dinner. Nothing was resolved and no lose ends tied up.
Altogether one of the most disappointing reads so far this year.
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