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A review by eleneariel
A Heart for Milton: A Tale from North and South by Trudy Brasure
2.0
It rarely ends well when you have a modern sequel/alternate ending to a beloved classic book. I know this, and yet I'm compelled to read them anyway.
This one is worse than most. It's fanfic of the worst kind - florid, overdone prose, a plethora of unneeded adjectives, 389 pages of blissful love and little conflict to drive what little plot there is forward.
Also, the phrases "ardent manhood" and "burgeoning need."
All in all, if you cut out the constant musings by the main characters of how perfect the other is and how amazed they are that the other should possibly love them, this book would be about 100 pages instead of nearly 400.
All that said, if you're a fan of North and South and as dissatisfied with the ending as I am, you'll read this and you'll probably even like it a little bit. Seeing Mr. Thornton happy is fairly spectacular.
This one is worse than most. It's fanfic of the worst kind - florid, overdone prose, a plethora of unneeded adjectives, 389 pages of blissful love and little conflict to drive what little plot there is forward.
Also, the phrases "ardent manhood" and "burgeoning need."
All in all, if you cut out the constant musings by the main characters of how perfect the other is and how amazed they are that the other should possibly love them, this book would be about 100 pages instead of nearly 400.
All that said, if you're a fan of North and South and as dissatisfied with the ending as I am, you'll read this and you'll probably even like it a little bit. Seeing Mr. Thornton happy is fairly spectacular.