okay this book was very slow at the beginning, but the last 100 pages or so were amazing. i finally saw the characters developing and there was finally a plot to follow. i wanted to love this book so bad, but it had a good ending.

Found this book on my grandma's shelf

Fun read

I was looking forward to reading this one but sadly it didn't live up to expectation. It seems poorly written and the heroine Lucy isn't really that likeable. The man she's madly in love with speaks as if he's in a Mills & Boon story and, given the chance, is liable to emote in a highly unlikely way as to how much he adores her. There's not a lot of story for the first three quarters of the book and then suddenly in the last quarter, absolutely everything happens! At this point it reminded me of an episode of Dallas from the 1970s - burning houses! Evil mother-in-law! Someone's father not being who they ought to be! Child neglect allegations! I was really quite exhausted by it all, and rather glad when I reached the highly unlikely end. That said, there are one or two really key and movingly written scenes scattered throughout the book, and I wish there had been more of these, as that sort of writing would have made for a far better novel.

This is a good light read, I was surprised by how well I liked it.