{"id":5118,"date":"2015-02-09T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:36:48","slug":"shores-of-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5118","title":{"rendered":"Shores of Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shores of Desire<\/a><\/em> (1997) Tracy Grant<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Shores-of-Desire\"<\/a>This is a boinking book, but it is also a marvelous historical mystery.<\/p>\n

Set in 1815.<\/p>\n

Robert Melton and his son are traveling to Scotland to try to discover why his wife was murdered. Because he is a French spy, he is traveling under a false name and not telling the truth about why he is searching for information on Lucie.<\/p>\n

Emma Blair is a widow with a young daughter who is managing her family’s household and trying to keep the feud between her family and her neighbors from blowing up into a war.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed the mystery here, as well as the background of the war between England and France. I especially like the look at how the French about the war and about Napoleon. The French revolution was conflicting for who wanted a revolution like the United States had, but instead got the guillotine and blood in the streets.<\/p>\n

I quite liked Robert, who (despite being a spy) is quite honorable.<\/p>\n

while I’m not a paragon of virtue, that’s one place I draw the line.”
\n“Seducing governesses?”
\n“Seducing any woman whose livelihood is dependent upon her respectability.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also believes deeply in what the French Revolution was supposed be, which is problematic.<\/p>\n

I also very much liked Emma, who is attempting to deal with the death of her husband, and the issues they had that were never resolved by his death.<\/p>\n

She had never been able to believe that God had a plan for allocating loss and pain. It was easier to blame men’s penchant for making war. How else to account for the randomness of death?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another thing I particularly liked about this story was that the main characters were a widow and widower who had children–they were both grownups who knew what they wanted. And it made the romance far more realistic.<\/p>\n

But as I said, I especially liked the mystery, and the difficulty it caused between the hero and heroine.
\nRating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by NYLA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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