Tina's review
Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
For almost 15 or so years I have heard about this book. It has frequently shows up at the top of many readers' favorite lists. It has blurbs galore that hail it as one of the best romance novels of all time.
Whenever I come across a recommendation of author or book that gets as much as ink is this, I am usually all over it. So strangely, in the past 15 or so years, I have never really felt compelled to pick this book up.
But this week, that came to an end and I read it.
It is definitely well written and can agree that there is probably no other romance novel like it -- what, with the hero who has a stroke and the heroine who is a Quaker and all.
However, I didn't get the "ahhhhh" feeling from it after I closed the book. The relationship between the two main characters was not the stuff of romantic romance, imo. Maddy was too disdainful and judgmental. And while that can sometimes be a staple in the romance novel, I don't feel the author managed to thread feelings of tende...more
Whenever I come across a recommendation of author or book that gets as much as ink is this, I am usually all over it. So strangely, in the past 15 or so years, I have never really felt compelled to pick this book up.
But this week, that came to an end and I read it.
It is definitely well written and can agree that there is probably no other romance novel like it -- what, with the hero who has a stroke and the heroine who is a Quaker and all.
However, I didn't get the "ahhhhh" feeling from it after I closed the book. The relationship between the two main characters was not the stuff of romantic romance, imo. Maddy was too disdainful and judgmental. And while that can sometimes be a staple in the romance novel, I don't feel the author managed to thread feelings of tende...more
