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Summary: Read a Magazine Instead
Review: I was so disappointed in this story. I have read numerous Jane Feather books and have always
thought them a good read. For the life of me, I just could not like the Hero OR Heroine in this
book.. This is the Story of Sir Daniel Drummond, a Malignant Noble during the time of the execution of
Charles I and exile of Charles II and of Henrietta Asby (aka Harry) the mis-treated and mis-
understood, willful country gentle maiden. They meet when Sir Daniel rescues Henrietta from the Battlefield at Preston. Due to the terrible
circumstances of her homelife, Henrietta ran away from home to be with her "supposedly" true
love Will, who was fighting with the royalists. In a quick turn of events Sir Daniel proposes to
Henrietta, she accepts, and the story however bad it started out, gets worse.(in one week she
went from Loving Will to marrying Sir Daniel?) Henrietta is the kind of fictional character you literally want to strangle. She is so wishy washy.
The girl doesn't know whether she is Arthur or Martha. At times she is about at animated as a
limp rag and when she does do something, you just want to cringe and think to yourself. Ohh
well THAT was stupid!!! And then there is Sir Daniel our stoic hero. He acts like a bit of a git really. He is so
condescending to the Heroine. Although you tend to feel for the man because he has saddled
himself with Henrietta. I couldn't do it. I picked it up three times and all three time I threw it back down. Read a
magazine, that's what I say.
Rating:
Summary: Read a Magazine Instead
Review: I was so disappointed in this story. I have read numerous Jane Feather books and have always
thought them a good read. For the life of me, I just could not like the Hero OR Heroine in this
book.. This is the Story of Sir Daniel Drummond, a Malignant Noble during the time of the execution of
Charles I and exile of Charles II and of Henrietta Asby (aka Harry) the mis-treated and mis-
understood, willful country gentle maiden. They meet when Sir Daniel rescues Henrietta from the Battlefield at Preston. Due to the terrible
circumstances of her homelife, Henrietta ran away from home to be with her "supposedly" true
love Will, who was fighting with the royalists. In a quick turn of events Sir Daniel proposes to
Henrietta, she accepts, and the story however bad it started out, gets worse.(in one week she
went from Loving Will to marrying Sir Daniel?) Henrietta is the kind of fictional character you literally want to strangle. She is so wishy washy.
The girl doesn't know whether she is Arthur or Martha. At times she is about at animated as a
limp rag and when she does do something, you just want to cringe and think to yourself. Ohh
well THAT was stupid!!! And then there is Sir Daniel our stoic hero. He acts like a bit of a git really. He is so
condescending to the Heroine. Although you tend to feel for the man because he has saddled
himself with Henrietta. I couldn't do it. I picked it up three times and all three time I threw it back down. Read a
magazine, that's what I say.
Rating:
Summary: Yuck!
Review: Don't waste your time!! It was given to me but I won't bother passing it on to any one else. Matching a 15/16 year old with a 29 year old bothered me. Harry's trickery bothered me. It all bothered me. I didn't even bother with the last 10 pages. I was that close to the end, got interrupted and thought "So what?" I am not yet convinced that Jane Feather is worth trying again.
Rating: 
Summary: Not as good as I had expected
Review: I was disappointed at the way the author had failed to develop the heroine to her full potential. I felt the hero to be too unyielding and the age differences between the two to be too vast. I was left feeling disatisfied and felt as if the story was not yet complete. It also seems as if the hero did not fully appreciate her differences and spent too much time trying to change her. It is not til the end that I felt he had let go of his first deceased paragon of a wife and finally fully embraces his new wife. It was not one of the best books I've read thus far this year.
Rating:
Summary: Not exactly one of her best
Review: I was disappointed with the maturity level of Henrietta. Granted she was 16, but she was a spoiled little girl from the beginning to the end. The moral of the story shouldn't be "it's alright to do things for people as long as you believe it's right." Henrietta demonstrated a distinct selffishness that disappointed me in the end.
Rating:
Summary: No, no, no...
Review: There's something just not right with a romance between a 15 year old girl and a 29 year old man. What could Ms. Feather have been thinking? I've read and enjoyed many of her novels but this one was horrible.
Rating:
Summary: No, no, no...
Review: There's something just not right with a romance between a 15 year old girl and a 29 year old man. What could Ms. Feather have been thinking? I've read and enjoyed many of her novels but this one was horrible.
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