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A review by amshofner
The Bride Wore Pearls by Liz Carlyle
2.0
Something like a 2.5.
Coming into this series on the third book did me no favors. Often, with historical romance series, it doesn't matter much when you start the series, but it felt like a lot had been established already in earlier books.
With this book, things just seem to happen, without me being able to figure out why. Most of the time this happens, it's because I lack the back story. Again, likely because I started in the middle of a series.
(And, also, how much value would you give blurbs by other authors? This one had a blurb by an author whose book I marked DNF, which makes me wonder...)
Considering the heroine was Indian, I was hoping for more attention paid to cultures, but with Anisha raised as an Englishwoman, and little page time given to her Indian heritage (even her children were obviously white), it wasn't quite as satisfying for me.
Coming into this series on the third book did me no favors. Often, with historical romance series, it doesn't matter much when you start the series, but it felt like a lot had been established already in earlier books.
With this book, things just seem to happen, without me being able to figure out why. Most of the time this happens, it's because I lack the back story. Again, likely because I started in the middle of a series.
(And, also, how much value would you give blurbs by other authors? This one had a blurb by an author whose book I marked DNF, which makes me wonder...)
Considering the heroine was Indian, I was hoping for more attention paid to cultures, but with Anisha raised as an Englishwoman, and little page time given to her Indian heritage (even her children were obviously white), it wasn't quite as satisfying for me.