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Something Wonderful by Judith McNaught
3.0

Like the few other historical romances I’ve read this started as a 4 but was ultimately a 3.

Things that affected my rating were:

- The chemistry between Alexandra/Jordan wasn’t quite there. I felt it at first but by the end I didn’t care if they got together or not.

- The separation chapters were pointlessly long as you knew he wasn’t really dead.

- There was no grovelling.

- Lastly the inequality between men/women of the times made this feel more like a captor/captive romance rather than an arranged marriage romance.