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A Love By Any Measure (2011)

by Killian McRae(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0983979707 (ISBN13: 9780983979708)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Tulipe Noire Press

review 1: I picked this up as an Amazon free book of the day and I now am looking for a way to give this author money because I wish I'd paid for it.Usually, with Kindle Freebies, the quality is meh. This was a full fledged novel, that spanned a long period of time in the characters lives and was in many ways not a traditional romance novel. I actually hesitate to call it a Romance because those that have ghettoized that genre will miss out on a great (love) story, and those that have strict requirements (Boy Meets Girl, etc.) may be put off by ways this novel breaks out of the box.This is an 'Historical Novel' though I'm not an expert on 1850s Ireland so I don't know how accurate it is. This is the story of (English) Lord August Grayson & (Irish) Maeve O'Connor. They've known ea... morech other since childhood and August is the landowner of the cottage that Maeve shares with her father at the beginning of the novel. But the novel spans several years in their adulthood with flashbacks to childhood.What I liked about this was how real some of the decisions were. This isn't a bodice ripper or a sudden marriage due to pre-martial sex. It has a developing physical and romantic attraction that has to consider the relative stations of the participants. It captures the small town feel, where everyone knows your business, and the racism that occurred in Ireland. It has consequences, sometimes tragically, to the actions of the characters who are real and flawed. While it stays within the conventions where a romance novel should end up, there were times where I questioned how the characters would be able to get there. A Complicated layered love, instead of the courtship we see in most novels.
review 2: I absolutely loved this book. I really enjoy historicals anyway and this was no different. Maeve was easy to identify with and her love for August was apparant long before she ever said so. The fact that the barriers of "different stations" and lineage added just that much more to the depths of the story. I could easily go on, but I dont want to give anything away. If you enjoy historical romance you should enjoy this book. less

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