Ciji Ware

After a very public Hollywood divorce Blythe Barton Stowe Heads to Cornwall for a month in a cottage on the property of Barton Hall where she plans to do some research on possible connections between her family and the Cornish Bartons. Lucas Teague the current owner of Barton Hall is barely hanging on due to death taxes and an earlier hurricane disaster. As Blythe settles in and learns more about the Hall she comes up with a business proposition that could save it. Putting the idea into practice brings her into the dynamics of the family and she begins having flashbacks to the 18th century where 3 men and a women become the pivotal drama that changes the future of the family. I quite liked a lot of this but the melodrama of the Hollywood couple was a little much, right out of a Hollywood script.… (more)

The first part of this book was very engaging but then it just turned tedious suddenly; I only skimmed the last 150 pages and am quite sure that I missed nothing. This book was trying very hard to be historical fiction, I think it even had daydreams of being a biography, but was really just a romance novel set in the past. And badly set there. The author's need to cram in historical figures is just farcical; I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the whole Robbie Burns episode.
I'm kind of sorry I wasted my time finishing it.… (more)