Rachel's Choice

Rating:
Summary: About average
Review: Having read hundreds of romance novels, Galbadon to ones such as this, it becomes easier to rate them and harder to find a great one! Rachel's Choice is about average for writing style, character development and sensuality. The part of the plot that is hard to believe is the ending. A confederate from Virginia moving seamlessly into a Philadelphia law practice days after the end of the war is not believable--even with the advantage of great wealth--then going on to Congress!!

Rating:
Summary: I read this because of the reviews and was disappointed.
Review: Reading is such a personal thing. We can't all like the same thing. Allowing for that this book looked like it had a good story line and I had never read a judith french book before so I gave it a try. Well, the story/plot definitely was good but I didn't care for the disjointed writing style of this author. And there were too many inconsistencies. Sorry folks. I wouldn't bother with this one.

Rating:
Summary: Eh
Review: Well, this book is okay. Because of the glowing reviews, I was excited to read "Rachel's Choice." The plot is very good with some interesting twists. However, I'm tired of reading romance novels where the man sweeps in and saves the day for the woman. I'm also tired of reading "sex scenes" that are along the lines of "he took her again and again." Be real. Plus the historical aspect isn't very realistic. I get tired of all Southerners in romance books not believing in slavery/not owning slaves, lets be real, if this Chance fellow (crative name) was a calvary officer, then he had to provide his own horse, meaning he owned property and, undoubtedly, slaves. This book has good imagry and discriptions of rural life, but it's not much of a historical romance novel, unless romance has suddenly come to mean sex that involves throbing hardness on the riverbank. Also, I found it to be slightly homophobic in one part.