mazza57's review
4.0
very pleasant romance that also looked at the constraints placed on woman in the era
tessaf's review
5.0
I received this book as a giveaway from Goodreads first reads.
First of all let me say I have never read a book quite like this before. And probably never will again, you don't mess with ingrained habits. This book I enjoyed but really it's not normally the type of thing I read. I was surprised that I actually liked it as when I started reading it, the description seem a bit to poetic and over the top for me. I got over that. Geoffrey Hawes is a writer convinced that man creates his own destruction, whilst Miranda Claridge believes that hope is available anywhere and she further opines that Geoffrey would be a greater author if he could realize that it his hatred of class that leads him to believe man is without hope and incapable of salvation. Miranda show him the joy in the world and the hope and ability for love that people possess, while he proves to her that she lives in little more than a gilded cage despite her education. They discover that although each has opened the other's eyes to a world beyond what they believed they are still to trapped in their principle to properly follow their hearts. The two must chose between their convictions and their hearts. An yes I do realize that the last bit I sounds cliché, but it really is quite a good book and the debates they have on morality, man and the upper class are brilliant debates of people with firm convictions. On a side note although the story is told from Geoffrey's perspective and he is a somewhat sympathetic character, I found myself trusting Miranda and believing her views and explanations before I consider his.
First of all let me say I have never read a book quite like this before. And probably never will again, you don't mess with ingrained habits. This book I enjoyed but really it's not normally the type of thing I read. I was surprised that I actually liked it as when I started reading it, the description seem a bit to poetic and over the top for me. I got over that. Geoffrey Hawes is a writer convinced that man creates his own destruction, whilst Miranda Claridge believes that hope is available anywhere and she further opines that Geoffrey would be a greater author if he could realize that it his hatred of class that leads him to believe man is without hope and incapable of salvation. Miranda show him the joy in the world and the hope and ability for love that people possess, while he proves to her that she lives in little more than a gilded cage despite her education. They discover that although each has opened the other's eyes to a world beyond what they believed they are still to trapped in their principle to properly follow their hearts. The two must chose between their convictions and their hearts. An yes I do realize that the last bit I sounds cliché, but it really is quite a good book and the debates they have on morality, man and the upper class are brilliant debates of people with firm convictions. On a side note although the story is told from Geoffrey's perspective and he is a somewhat sympathetic character, I found myself trusting Miranda and believing her views and explanations before I consider his.
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