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Title: Average romance
Review: Ms. Eschenburg takes the arranged-marriage plot device but doesn't really give it anything new. The "hero" really isn't that likable, and spends half the novel apart from the heroine. They end up together, but the reader is left wondering "why?" The author attempts to fill up the lack of real romance by setting the story against the American Civil War, but makes some mistakes with that as well, and child sexual abuse just flat does not belong in a romance novel AT ALL. That chapter nearly made me lose my lunch and it really didn't add anything to the plot. Not the worst "romance" I've ever read by any means, but definitely not worth the cover price. Buy used.
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