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Into the Wilderness
by Sara Donati
I’m fond of historical novels. I’m not fond of romance-genre conventions, including love more-or-less at first sight, or gratuitous and uninspired sex, and there was too much of that here. I'd call this an over-inflated romance novel in a historical setting, and I didn’t find the romance either believable or captivating. There were some sections that I found interesting and entertaining (when the focus wasn’t on the romance), enough so that I kept on skimming, but in the end there weren’t enough of those bits to justify 900 pages.
As for historical accuracy: Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, so how could Elizabeth Middleton, the protagonist in Into the Wilderness, have known about Jane Bingley in 1792? Made me question a lot of other details I might otherwise have taken at face value.
As for historical accuracy: Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, so how could Elizabeth Middleton, the protagonist in Into the Wilderness, have known about Jane Bingley in 1792? Made me question a lot of other details I might otherwise have taken at face value.