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A review by ancequay
Sentence of Marriage by Shayne Parkinson
3.0
I got this free from Amazon, and it was not the light historical romance I was expecting. In fact, it was not at all the kind of book I would have read if I had known more about it. I like my comfort reading with a tidy happily-ever-after for all involved, which did not happen here.
That being said, this was an extremely compelling book. It was well-written, hard to put down or stop thinking about, and very easy to get lost in. I loved the descriptions of late 19th, early 20th century farm life, the Kiwi slang, and the portrayals of a wide variety of marriages and families. The main character, Amy, was too much the martyr to be relatable for me, but many of the others were extremely real, three-dimensional characters.
I liked the book well enough to buy the other three books in the series (with eyes wide open as to the lack of universal happily-ever-afters). For the record, the books are really more parts of one story, Amy's life, than they are individual stories capable of standing on their own.
That being said, this was an extremely compelling book. It was well-written, hard to put down or stop thinking about, and very easy to get lost in. I loved the descriptions of late 19th, early 20th century farm life, the Kiwi slang, and the portrayals of a wide variety of marriages and families. The main character, Amy, was too much the martyr to be relatable for me, but many of the others were extremely real, three-dimensional characters.
I liked the book well enough to buy the other three books in the series (with eyes wide open as to the lack of universal happily-ever-afters). For the record, the books are really more parts of one story, Amy's life, than they are individual stories capable of standing on their own.