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verity83OK. Book 4... Whisper in the Wind.
191pp
Since I got sidetracked talking of Hoff generalities, I should mention that To Love and to Honour is, really, a bit mediocre. It is thrilling to a teenaged girl who has not experienced love in any real fashion. It is a bit passé to someone who's married. I had enough of my own fiddle-string tension and conflicting emotions and whatnot during our dating days to last me the rest of my life. I don't really need to read about it any more. It is not that well-written, and as I mentioned to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eattheolives, it felt a bit like a practise run for some material later used in the Emerald Ballad. At least that's how it struck me - perhaps paving the way and testing the waters for these characters that would later come back in another book?
Anyway, Whisper in the Wind is definitely the better of the two Jess/Kerry books (The Dalton Saga, I guess it's technically called). The courtship angst is over and we can move on to a plot that has more substance, about Jess taking on Washington, with a good lesson in the end that instead of moving the mountain on the other side of the valley, how about moving the rocks that are right in front of your feet first? It is full of drama and trauma, yes, but it at least has some more substance and some good character development. And the backstory of Casey-Fitz, that I don't recall being in Emerald Ballad, and a letter from Casey to Jess and Kerry during the Civil War era, which brings the Emerald Ballad forward in a way. It's hard for me to separate the two series-es. It really is. This only means that I can't really stop now. I am doomed to read the Emerald Ballad next.
But not tonight. My head hurts and my husband is hungry for gardenburger and I am hungry for bed.
191pp
Since I got sidetracked talking of Hoff generalities, I should mention that To Love and to Honour is, really, a bit mediocre. It is thrilling to a teenaged girl who has not experienced love in any real fashion. It is a bit passé to someone who's married. I had enough of my own fiddle-string tension and conflicting emotions and whatnot during our dating days to last me the rest of my life. I don't really need to read about it any more. It is not that well-written, and as I mentioned to
eattheolives, it felt a bit like a practise run for some material later used in the Emerald Ballad. At least that's how it struck me - perhaps paving the way and testing the waters for these characters that would later come back in another book?Anyway, Whisper in the Wind is definitely the better of the two Jess/Kerry books (The Dalton Saga, I guess it's technically called). The courtship angst is over and we can move on to a plot that has more substance, about Jess taking on Washington, with a good lesson in the end that instead of moving the mountain on the other side of the valley, how about moving the rocks that are right in front of your feet first? It is full of drama and trauma, yes, but it at least has some more substance and some good character development. And the backstory of Casey-Fitz, that I don't recall being in Emerald Ballad, and a letter from Casey to Jess and Kerry during the Civil War era, which brings the Emerald Ballad forward in a way. It's hard for me to separate the two series-es. It really is. This only means that I can't really stop now. I am doomed to read the Emerald Ballad next.
But not tonight. My head hurts and my husband is hungry for gardenburger and I am hungry for bed.
