The Heiress of Winterwood

I really wanted to like this.

As a christian, i haven't read a lot of christian literature and i really wanted to explore it, especially a romance. So i gave this book every chance.

However, my expectations might've been off. I expected a sweet romance, this was not! I could not in any way discernable find a reason for these two to be into each other, no chemistry, very very wooden heroine and suddenly the hero loved her?... They say they love each other in the middle of this mess they're in, and frankly, they spend two minutes together overall.

So to me, a romance book lives and dies on its romance and nope, i just didn't buy it.

Then we have the christian aspect, prayer, psalms. It felt superficial at best, i didn't feel the spiritual struggle that they were meaning to convey.

And then the plot. Predictable, which i didn't mind, but really, the mistery wasn't a mistery at all, the mustache turning bad guy's motivations were certainly over the top. The character of the cousin... Nevermind her mindset... Anyway, the plot didn't sell it for me either.

I don't think it was all bad. The psalms were nice to hear, and i guess it's nice to see a happy ending, it just doesn't feel very earned, nor do we get the character development i wanted, to really grasp why lucy meant so much to emilia and how graham fell for her at all. To me the best character was william.

If you like a bit of predictable mistery, a bit of forced romance and a good enough wrap up, then this is for you. The writting is good, I might still try the sequel, since it follows william.