The Ground She Walks Upon

Rating:
Summary: disappointed...
Review: i didnt enjoy this book. wasnt horrible, but i didnt think it was one of her best. i thought she could ve done better.

Rating:
Summary: Lovely and Lyrical
Review: I loved this book. It's very melodramatic, but it works because it is beautifully written. This is one of her best books. It's very much like Lions and Lace and Fair is the Rose as it is set in a different time and setting than the usual stories of this genre.

Rating:
Summary: geisphobia
Review: While Lord Trevallyan's reason for not wanting to have a relationship with Ravenna --- he's resisting fate --- is plausible, it gets a zero for dramatic effect. Trevallyan is also in constant battle with his hangup about their age difference (rightfully so) which just made him seem insecure. In turn, Ravenna hates Trevallyan for sending her off to an English school where she was shunned and ridiculed. Again, plausible, but boring. Ravenna's story within the story I simply found distracting from the real story and not particularly interesting.

Having no great obstacle but stubbornness and resentment, the story just dragged on and on. Still, no matter how thin the plot, if told well, any story can be great. Unfortunately, this story just did not catch my imagination.

And last but not least --- I know it's essential to the plot, but if I had to read the word "geis" one more time . . .