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A review by nightshade_novels
Sovay by Celia Rees
3.0
A fried recommended this book to me and I began reading it in the library back in July when I was visiting Newcastle but was unable to finish it until I returned to Newcastle this week.
It was quite different from the sort of books that I usually read, mainly because it has no fantasy element to it. It is firmly based in the England and France of the 18th Century. It was well written and felt like it was written around the time it was set, I was surprised to learn it was published in 2008.
Sovay is an interesting character and I admire her wilfulness to stand up for what she believes which is often that she should not be treated as inferior to the males around her. I was hoping that by the end of the book she would
This was an interesting read, but not quite to my taste.
It was quite different from the sort of books that I usually read, mainly because it has no fantasy element to it. It is firmly based in the England and France of the 18th Century. It was well written and felt like it was written around the time it was set, I was surprised to learn it was published in 2008.
Sovay is an interesting character and I admire her wilfulness to stand up for what she believes which is often that she should not be treated as inferior to the males around her. I was hoping that by the end of the book she would
Spoiler
have got together with the highwayman but she ended up with a French soldier and never returned to England.This was an interesting read, but not quite to my taste.