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Title: So-so story, minor characters more interesting than hero!
Review: This was a disappointing book from Eileen Putnam. Although it had some amusing moments, overall I really could not get particularly interested in either Louisa or Gabriel. The scene another reviewer mentioned, where she stripped naked and demanded that he make love to her, was just totally beyond all credibility. As for the crazy rescues, the narrative was too improbable for words.The only really interesting characters in this book were David and Violet, and we saw far too little of their romance. Violet is the victim of a brutal marriage, pregnant by her husband's last rape of her; David is a traumatised ex-prisoner of the French, who believes he is incapable of being with a woman. Their courtship is beautiful, though far too little is shown, and I wish Putnam had concentrated on this rather than Gabriel and Louisa, who I really did not like at all.As for the submarine stuff... BORING!!!
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