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Uira Nao uira1c16 — I'm not crazy about his writing (his dialogue is very stilted, for example), but the book asks great questions and has a powerful ending.

Christina Zhu czhu5eb9 — This came highly recommended. I struggled a bit with it, but find myself thinking about it three months later, the whiskey priest, the woman carrying her dead baby on her back, the fear in the people. I may well read it again

Adham Saleh adhamgsale5ea5 — There are books that are good enough to continue reading, but not interesting enough to rave about. This was one such book. Set in the Malloren universe, it featured Prudence and Catesby - a newly wed couple who lived near the Countess of Arradale. Actually, it starts with the improvised heroine struggling with her brother's abandonment and falls into trouble with some local troublemakers. A drunk, penniless hero saves her and somehow delivers her safely to her home. While they never make it past a kiss, there is a sort of comfort they share with each other's presence. But neither can do much about their poor state in life. Prudence's mother recently died, while her brother, Aaron, is callous upon the care of his sister. Cate is the disgraced 2nd son of an Earl, mostly disliked by his 'perfect' family. After their initial meeting, time passes in which Prudence demands her brother's aid, eventually forcing her to accept a marriage proposal with a brutish man, while Cate's older brother dies, leaving him the Lord Malzard, due to his brother's failure to produce an heir. Cate rescues Prudence from her fate on impulse, by marrying her. But oddly, while the two are strangers, they slowly grow to love each other, without ever sleeping with each other. Actually, the couple did not even consummate their marriage, even to the last page. He did give her an orgasm, and they did have adequate sexual attraction, but no intercourse. Anyway, Prudence has to weather her 2 bitchy sister-in-laws, one her brother's wife, the other her co-sister, and a spiteful mother-in-law eventually becoming the perfect countess for Catesby. I did not originally like Prudence. For one, she was not exactly heroine material - she was too real, too flawed. Catesby was also not to my standards, as he did not possess a sexy name - that's my theory, at least. But then I realized that Ms. Beverley gave us a shocking dose true love. Instead of the mind-warping, soul-consuming lusty kinds we usually read about, here was a love story that grew slowly, without using the obvious ploy of sex. The tension between the H/h simmered on low, but it was there, and we saw the difficulties a women from the middle class would have as she rises in station to become Lady Malzard. I came to understand Prudence and like Cate (I'm reading the Fever series, with Barrons, so its hard to love anyone else). Overall, it was a good book. But it has its flaws, and mainly, it was slow. I still wanted to finish it, surprisingly, but it was lackluster (or lacking lust, actually). It would be more accurate to say this is a 3 1/2 star book.