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jemimah11's review
5.0
I read the original fanfic version of this a long time ago. It's one of my favorite historical FF. Someone should publish this in ebook format!
cr4nkyp4nts's review
3.0
This book was featured on Cocktail Hour episode 11. http://www.cocktailhour.c-spot.net/archives/50
netgyrl's review
5.0
12/2021 update - I have just started on the 4th book. I would say at this point that the books are all excellent and I have a greater appreciation of all the research that has gone into the history taking place around our characters. It elevates the story and brought things to my attention that I didn't know about the post civil war time frame. One of my complaints about the fade-to-black scenes, lessens as they have become more descriptive but still not "explicit" and I think that works perfectly for these book. I also want to remark on my comment about not feeling "compelled" to read the next book. I stand by that BUT, I will say the book sticks with you and it wasn't too long before I was really looking forward to continuing the story of these two remarkable people, their family and friends.
5 ⭐ - very enjoyable and strangely angst free civil war romance
I liked this one much better than the other civil war romance I read recently. The reason this one worked for me a bit better is the "soldier" character, Charlie, is a colonel so we get a much higher level what's going on and, frankly, a lot less mud and general day to day suffering. Also, since the story starts when the Colonel and his troops set up winter camp on the other MC's land, our romantic pair have a long time to get to be together and form a friendship then relationship. With that relationship building you also get all those lovely courtly manners and speech patterns. So swoony. Also, there is a surprising lack of angst and yet I was never bored, and the book is loooooong folks. Its like, the first 25% is the story then there is 70% of epilogue...lol. We get a bit of war drama/angst at the very end that had me tearing up. I found the all the characters to be very well fleshed out and generally interesting and likeable so by the end I was very invested. How could I not be feeling for them during the suffering of battle at the end? Of course, our perfect couple is going to come thru at the end and the book ends on a very satisfying finish and HEA. I do want to read the next but I do not feel COMPELLED to jump to the next book immediately. I would definitely recommend to anyone that enjoys historical romances and would like to read one were you don't need to worried or feeling dread about what is going to happen next thru most of the book.
A few nitpicks.
-the leads really are a bit too perfect
-all the sex scenes are fade-to-black, which for me, robs the story intimacy/passion between our couple
-the child, Em, 2 yo, speaks in the third-person the ENTIRE TIME and it made me a bit nuts. maybe a bit of it would be cute but I was over it pretty fast.
5 ⭐ - very enjoyable and strangely angst free civil war romance
I liked this one much better than the other civil war romance I read recently. The reason this one worked for me a bit better is the "soldier" character, Charlie, is a colonel so we get a much higher level what's going on and, frankly, a lot less mud and general day to day suffering. Also, since the story starts when the Colonel and his troops set up winter camp on the other MC's land, our romantic pair have a long time to get to be together and form a friendship then relationship. With that relationship building you also get all those lovely courtly manners and speech patterns. So swoony. Also, there is a surprising lack of angst and yet I was never bored, and the book is loooooong folks. Its like, the first 25% is the story then there is 70% of epilogue...lol. We get a bit of war drama/angst at the very end that had me tearing up. I found the all the characters to be very well fleshed out and generally interesting and likeable so by the end I was very invested. How could I not be feeling for them during the suffering of battle at the end? Of course, our perfect couple is going to come thru at the end and the book ends on a very satisfying finish and HEA. I do want to read the next but I do not feel COMPELLED to jump to the next book immediately. I would definitely recommend to anyone that enjoys historical romances and would like to read one were you don't need to worried or feeling dread about what is going to happen next thru most of the book.
A few nitpicks.
-the leads really are a bit too perfect
-all the sex scenes are fade-to-black, which for me, robs the story intimacy/passion between our couple
-the child, Em, 2 yo, speaks in the third-person the ENTIRE TIME and it made me a bit nuts. maybe a bit of it would be cute but I was over it pretty fast.