historic review
I just finished reading "The Lady is Tempted" by Cathy Maxwell. it wasn't all that great style-wise or story-wise or really any kind of wise ... and yet, I almost cried during it. Tony and Deborah were in love, but he was engaged to someone else (not a love match) and they couldn't be together. Of course, things worked out at the last minute, but I felt so bad for them and almost started crying. I wasn't all that crazy about Tony's character either, but when his parents told him the story of how they'd met, I almost cried again! Tony was the result of an affair between his mother and the man she would eventually marry when her earl-husband died.
And now I'm just pondering love and pain, because even though it wasn't the greatest historical romance I've ever read, it definitely took a different twist by having the heroine become the hero's mistress for a while. And not in the sense that they had sex before marriage, because that always happens in historics, but because he was committed elsewhere, and yet they still pursued a relationship.
And now I'm just pondering love and pain, because even though it wasn't the greatest historical romance I've ever read, it definitely took a different twist by having the heroine become the hero's mistress for a while. And not in the sense that they had sex before marriage, because that always happens in historics, but because he was committed elsewhere, and yet they still pursued a relationship.