Changes

The most striking characters were Belle the milliner, and her brother Donovan who, working as a slave catcher, was bound to have a lot of dramatic appeal. I would have liked to have known more about him and seen him in settings other than the limited ones shown. Honor, while starting off promisingly, became quite dull and while I could see the dilemmas she was facing, I began to lose interest in how she would resolve them. I tried re-reading certain sections but it didn’t make me feel any differently. My overall feeling was that the book was wrongly balanced; too much attention was paid to subtleties and too little to major sections of storyline. Ultimately, it was a disappointing end to a book that began very well.

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