Summing it up: London,
England, 1586
Sixteen-year-old Mercy Hart is the daughter of
one of London’s richest – and strictest – cloth merchants.
Kit Turner is an actor and the illegitimate son
of the late Earl of Dorset. A chance encounter finds Kit falling for the
beautiful Mercy’s charms, but their love is forbidden. A merchant’s daughter
and a vagabond – it simply cannot be.
If Mercy chooses Kit she must renounce her
family name and leave her home. Will she favour duty over true love, or will
she give Kit his heart’s desire?
This book
is the third in the Lacey Chronicles by Eve Edwards. It follows along after The
Other Countess and The Queen’s Lady,
this time focusing on the illegitimate son of the late Earl of Dorset (the
first two followed his sons Will and James).
The book
starts off with an earthquake which causes Mercy to believe it is her fault
because she wasn’t really listening to her father’s prayers. It seems silly,
but she is ten at the time and is from a God-fearing family.
I am not
too fond of books that have to do with Christianity (although I myself am a
Christian). This book is an exception. Yes, it does mention God a fair bit, but
it isn’t like it centres around Him. Mercy’s father is very religious so of
course Mercy believes that God plays a large part in her life. Kit on the other
hand, doesn’t tend to go to church and isn’t even really religious.
Anyways,
the characters. Mercy… I like her. She is described as pretty, although she
dresses herself in plain clothes as punishment for the earthquake. She is a
God-fearing girl who barely ever thinks of herself. She reminds me of that one
friend that your mom wants you to hang out with because she is a good
influence.
Kit, oh my!
In The Queen’s Lady we meet Kit (I
can’t remember if he was in the first book), and I fell in love with him. He is
an actor and pretty much is just the best character I have ever read. Ever
since I first read The Witch of Blackbird
Pond those many years ago, I was in love with the name Kit… for a girl.
When I found out this character was called Kit, I was a bit iffy (I’m still not
really sure why they call him that since his name is Christopher). Kit dresses
in bright, loud clothing and has his ear pierced – not something a father would
exactly look of in his future son-in-law; especially a strict, religious
father. Kit is swoon worth, I must admit.
Tobias is
also a favourite of mine. He is Kit’s younger brother who left the Lacey manor
to stay with his half-brother. Tobias doesn’t really think before he acts, but
I think at the end he has matured a lot. I really hope there will a novel about
him too!
Mercy’s
grandmother is a hoot, gaining more than a few chuckles from me. She also was
the only one in Mercy’s family (besides her aunt) who agreed that Kit was a
good man for her.
At the
beginning of the book I detested Mercy’s father, John. He was much too hard on
her when it came to Kit, but I guess that is expected. She is his baby girl and
Kit, as I said before, is not what one would look for in his son-in-law. In the
end I was fond of John and was glad that he wasn’t as much of a jerk as I
thought he was.
The plot
was nice, although I am not really one to believe in love-at-first-sight. To me
Kit fell too hard and fast for Mercy. I loved the scenes between them, but at
their first meeting they pretty much had to be pried apart.
This is a
really good book, truly. I enjoyed all of the books in the Lacey Chronicles and I
hope that we can see another one.
This book
is pretty clean. I don’t think there was any swearing (there might have been
two or three if any), but there was kissing and a few gropes. ;)
I rate this: 5/5.
No comments:
Post a Comment