" I'm a sucker for a historical fiction with a love story, so this read was more of a guilty pleasure than anything else. At times I found the language cumbersome, and I felt it had more to do with the voice than the authentic period vocabulary. Bryd writes about a complicated time well, but some parts of the book read like paragraphs from a history book, whereas portions about the main character read more like close third person perspective and were more gripping. "
— Melanie, 2/5/2014