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Ladataan... Salvaged Love: A historic novel of Key West 1828-1829 (Love in Key West)Tekijä: Susan Blackmon
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Salvaged Love is the story of a young girl's journey into womanhood and her need to carve a place for herself in the small island community and in the heart of her husband. Set in 1828 at the cusp of Key West's rise to wealth from ship salvaging, the story blends fact and fiction to entertain and highlight the fascinating history of Key West, Florida. Nineteen year old Abigail Bennington eagerly accepts her father's invitation to sail to the Caribbean in a desperate need to escape her current situation. They sail from England expecting a six month holiday. Plans turn awry when they become stranded in Key West, a newly settled island at the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, surrounded by treacherous reef and inhabited mostly by men. Abby becomes enchanted with the tiny island and its residents until circumstances force her father to insist she marry. Now locked in matrimony, can the young couple's burgeoning love survive resentment and isolation?This is the first book in the generational series Love in Key West blending facts and fiction to entertain readers and highlight the fascinating history of Key West, Florida. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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It started out okay, but based on the multiple POVs in the beginning I wasn't sure which were the important players. That first threw me off a little bit and prevented me from becoming invested in any of the characters.
After that there was some serious info-dumping about nautical equipment and then a little later about the history of Key West. It read like a textbook at times.
And then, of course, about 50% of the book relies on my least favorite trope of all - the constant misunderstanding. The hero thinks one thing, the heroine another and they literally NEVER talk to each other. They would fight and then he would leave and misunderstanding would pile on top of misunderstanding. Half the time it felt like poor character development and the other half just felt contrived. Oh, and what self-respecting woman allows a man to end a fight just by kissing her? Abby would be all worked up and angry with him and then he would kiss her, and poof! fight over, everything is hunky-dory again. I hate that. Some people like this kind of plot device so they may enjoy this, but I find it irritating.
The ending started to improve a little bit as they was some drama, but then I was thrown off again when part of the conclusion was written like a moral. Rather than being shown how the hero finally had this big revelation and had grown as a character, I felt that I was being taught a lesson. If the point of the book was to teach a lesson, fine, but this was the only part written like that and so it just didn't jive with the rest of the book. (