![]() What saved this book was the delightful characterizations of the two protagonists. I wish there were more fish-out-of-water moments but the author inexplicably set these aside pretty early in the story, instead choosing to focus on an over-the-top murder whodunit. There was so much rich potential here for plausible conflict: not just the difference in their station,but the secondary characters like the uncouth, crass grandpa warbucks, the snobby relatives, the scheming, evil stepmother, the jilted lover. ![]() Joan Wolf, in her usual, spare, unadorned, story-telling style, sets up the perfect conflict in a marriage of convenience between an impoverished aristocrat and a rich merchant's daughter. Exactly the kind of uber sweet romance I needed to escape some pretty bleak, dismal books lately. ![]()
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