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Sigh, it was too good to last
Aug. 12th, 2008 09:28 pmI got my first negative review on Amazon for 'Captain's Surrender'. I don't mind the review itself so much:
I had high (perhaps too high) expectations for this novel, and ordered it expecting a high seas naval romance. The author can obviously tell a story, but I felt no genuine emotional investment between the two main characters. And it took Kenyan until the end of the book to decide to be happy with Andrews, rather than do what was expected of him. Understandable given the laws at that time, but still. I was disappointed but maybe the book is too cerebral for this reviewer.
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If only because I suspect that it's just one of those instances where there was just a basic difference of tastes. (Lots of other people do seem to have felt the love between the lead characters, so I can't help feeling that's just her.) But what really gets my goat is that she's given it two stars *and that has lowered the average from 5 to 4.5 stars*. Grr! If she'd called it total trash but given it three stars I'd have been happier ;)
I had high (perhaps too high) expectations for this novel, and ordered it expecting a high seas naval romance. The author can obviously tell a story, but I felt no genuine emotional investment between the two main characters. And it took Kenyan until the end of the book to decide to be happy with Andrews, rather than do what was expected of him. Understandable given the laws at that time, but still. I was disappointed but maybe the book is too cerebral for this reviewer.
Scroll down to 'most recent reviews'.
If only because I suspect that it's just one of those instances where there was just a basic difference of tastes. (Lots of other people do seem to have felt the love between the lead characters, so I can't help feeling that's just her.) But what really gets my goat is that she's given it two stars *and that has lowered the average from 5 to 4.5 stars*. Grr! If she'd called it total trash but given it three stars I'd have been happier ;)