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The Harbour Master's Daughter (Devonshire Sagas #1)
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bookshelves: antagonist-overload, disability-or-mc-challenge, drama, immature-couple, sea-captain, suspension-of-disbelief, victorian
Jul 25, 2023
bookshelves: antagonist-overload, disability-or-mc-challenge, drama, immature-couple, sea-captain, suspension-of-disbelief, victorian
Devonshire 1867, going forward. Couldn't decide was
this a 2? or 2.5, so I settled on the latter. This thankfully
had minimal sex scenes (usually a few paragraphs).
Got to 70% mark and skimmed ahead.
Isaac was the harbormaster. He provided a good life for
his wife + 2 pretty dtrs Rebecca (heroine) & younger dtr.
Sarah. Becky loved cooper, Tom Mason, who supported
his widowed mother, sis Hetty (Becky's BFF) & 2 bros.
Becky's Da made clear, once Tom could afford to rent a
cabin (he & fam dwelled in a tenement) he could court
& wed Becky. Sarah favored Misha, a sailor of Russian
heritage.
Isaac invited widowed Capt. Adam Bradley, owner of 3
ships, to his home for dinner. She acted rude toward
him from the jump. Becky showed her smart + spoiled
ways. Adam felt 'love at first sight.' Adam told Isaac he
wanted to court Becky-but he learned her heart was
otherwise engaged.
About the 40% mark, I wanted Becky erased from the
story & almost DNF. She thought she knew everything.
Becky defied her Da and saw Tom on the sly.
Long story short, eventually Adam (about 11 yrs her
senior) + Becky wed, but she left out some vital
info. They had too many shouting matches, when he
wasn't at sea. Someone sabotaged one of his ships.
The thing RE the hand seemed unnecessary-the
MD monitored this daily. The MCs had another MD
available for a 2nd opinion-but passed on this. Some
of the twists/ turns seemed like Job from the Bible or
'hard times for these times' from Dickens.
It ticks me off, in a story, when good guys don't
report bad guy(s) to the magistrate in a timely
manner. This had grammar & spelling errors. IE
Tom was of "Gipsy" ancestry.
Revised.
this a 2? or 2.5, so I settled on the latter. This thankfully
had minimal sex scenes (usually a few paragraphs).
Got to 70% mark and skimmed ahead.
Isaac was the harbormaster. He provided a good life for
his wife + 2 pretty dtrs Rebecca (heroine) & younger dtr.
Sarah. Becky loved cooper, Tom Mason, who supported
his widowed mother, sis Hetty (Becky's BFF) & 2 bros.
Becky's Da made clear, once Tom could afford to rent a
cabin (he & fam dwelled in a tenement) he could court
& wed Becky. Sarah favored Misha, a sailor of Russian
heritage.
Isaac invited widowed Capt. Adam Bradley, owner of 3
ships, to his home for dinner. She acted rude toward
him from the jump. Becky showed her smart + spoiled
ways. Adam felt 'love at first sight.' Adam told Isaac he
wanted to court Becky-but he learned her heart was
otherwise engaged.
About the 40% mark, I wanted Becky erased from the
story & almost DNF. She thought she knew everything.
Becky defied her Da and saw Tom on the sly.
Long story short, eventually Adam (about 11 yrs her
senior) + Becky wed, but she left out some vital
info. They had too many shouting matches, when he
wasn't at sea. Someone sabotaged one of his ships.
The thing RE the hand seemed unnecessary-the
MD monitored this daily. The MCs had another MD
available for a 2nd opinion-but passed on this. Some
of the twists/ turns seemed like Job from the Bible or
'hard times for these times' from Dickens.
It ticks me off, in a story, when good guys don't
report bad guy(s) to the magistrate in a timely
manner. This had grammar & spelling errors. IE
Tom was of "Gipsy" ancestry.
Revised.
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Reading Progress
2023
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Started Reading
July 25, 2023
– Shelved
July 25, 2023
– Shelved as:
antagonist-overload
July 25, 2023
– Shelved as:
disability-or-mc-challenge
July 25, 2023
– Shelved as:
drama
July 25, 2023
– Shelved as:
immature-couple
July 25, 2023
– Shelved as:
sea-captain
July 25, 2023
– Shelved as:
suspension-of-disbelief
July 25, 2023
– Shelved as:
victorian
July 25, 2023
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Finished Reading
(FYI, "gipsy" is an alternative spelling of "gypsy." Either spelling would be okay in a historical novel, but in modern books the word, however spelled, should be avoided because it's offensive.)