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4.0étoiles sur 5
Good story with an unusual setting, Avril 17 2003
I liked this book despite some criticisms I must make.First of all, Tregatt has summed up the plot. It was very good and the setting in Russia, just as Napoleon was closing on Moscow in 1812 was very good. It reminded me a little of Dinah Dean's books in the 1980s which were set in Russia during the same timeframe. The characters were also good: a very strong, intelligent and mature heroine, Miss Octavia Hadley, who accepts the hand fate has dealt her with dignity and stoicism. The hero, Lord Alexander Sheffield (though the author gets his title wrong), is less mature when we first meet him but grows up through this story, enabling him to reassess his own actions and come to accept himself. He has some good qualities and, of course this being romantic fiction, needs the love of a good woman to bring them forth! The two children, Emma and Nicholas, are the instigators of the plot action, are well done and realistic. This is a prodigal son story and one of redemption. I liked it but must agree with others that there were annoying errors. The titles of the hero's family were wrongly done and there were silly dialogue problems like "sussing out" and "dossing down" both of which are modernisms as far as I am aware. I can recommend this book as a good read, a little different and peopled by some interesting characters. Not a keeper but worth a look.
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