“The jaded and rebellious innocent…“Fanny Becket has adored her adopted brother since the day they both lost their parents and became part of the Becket family. Where he goes, she has always followed. But pursuing him into battle, Fanny quickly finds herself in the line of fire and quite unexpectedly... in the embrace of a handsome stranger.
“Valentine Clement, Earl of Brede, has seen enough of fighting to know there is no advantage to be found at Waterloo. Yet the moment he spies Fanny he is duty bound to save the reckless beauty, most especially from herself. Although with a woman such as Fanny, it may very well be his lordship who is in need of true protection.”
This book was sweet. It was a touching story and the reader can feel the characters’ pain it was written so realistically. I will, however, bring up the reality of “typos”. You know how you will be reading a book and there will be a not-too-significant word missing or a misplaced apostrophe? Well, this book was missing actual important words in some of the sentences—and I’m not talking about one or two mistakes…there were like five of them. It was hard to read some of the sentences because of some of the missing words. I’m not blaming Kasey Michaels—as a writer, I know how easy it is to do—I’m saying that the editor was fairly lax in their duties to the author. This is what they get paid for and the editor couldn’t do it.
Anyway, I LOVED Valentine's character and Fanny—who was pretty much excluded from all of the other books and was thoroughly underdeveloped—was definitely explained more. I also enjoyed how Rian was elaborated on. The readers saw a more determined, serious, mature side to him and they felt for how he wanted to prove himself and have his “turn”. All in all, this was a decent book and I liked the historical aspects a lot.
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