A review by thunguyen
Revenge of the Barbary Ghost by Victoria Hamilton
4.0
Straight after the events of The howl in the dark, I thought we were done with Lady Anne and Darkefell's romance, now that it is quite well established that they had feelings to each other. I thought we could move on to some serious murder investigations. How wrong I was! The 2nd installment in this series has almost no sleuthing element. It's romance, romance, and more romance. And I've got sucked into it wholeheartedly by the push and pull in their relationship. He kept pulling and she kept pushing him away.
....“I know your education has taught you that women are to be guarded, for their virtue rests on the fragile knife edge between their physical strength and their moral understanding, both so much less than a man’s as to give their guardians justification for interfering in their life at every turn.” She shook her head. “But I thought you were capable of independent thought, that you had begun to take me at my word, and to trust that there was some measure of intelligence in my brain. Go find a woman who wants your interference. Go, damn you. Find a lady who will wish to be protected and coddled and cosseted and kept from any kind of life! That is not me!”
And she was gone....
Lady Anne must be a single lady with the most aversion to marriage in all of the historical romances I've ever read. Why, it's been 2 books already, and Darkefell had proved himself time and time again the most noble man to trust. But damn her independence. And damn the world of men who gave women no freedom for thousands of years.
....“I know your education has taught you that women are to be guarded, for their virtue rests on the fragile knife edge between their physical strength and their moral understanding, both so much less than a man’s as to give their guardians justification for interfering in their life at every turn.” She shook her head. “But I thought you were capable of independent thought, that you had begun to take me at my word, and to trust that there was some measure of intelligence in my brain. Go find a woman who wants your interference. Go, damn you. Find a lady who will wish to be protected and coddled and cosseted and kept from any kind of life! That is not me!”
And she was gone....
Lady Anne must be a single lady with the most aversion to marriage in all of the historical romances I've ever read. Why, it's been 2 books already, and Darkefell had proved himself time and time again the most noble man to trust. But damn her independence. And damn the world of men who gave women no freedom for thousands of years.