Release Date: January, 28th 2014
Buy the Book: Amazon
My Rating: 4/5 Stars
About the Book:
BANISHED LOVE, the first novel in the BANISHED saga, follows Clarissa Sullivan and Gabriel McLeod as they discover love, challenge societal restrictions, and fight class prejudices. Clarissa wants more from life than to sit in the parlor sipping tepid tea and awaiting visits from friends. She chafes against the limitations placed on her by the suffocating society of Victorian Boston. Determined to live an active, fulfilling life, she teaches in a school for poor immigrant girls and joins the suffragist movement. Clarissa’s greatest dream, to find a man who will love her and nurture her independent spirit, seems increasingly elusive.
However, in the spring of 1900, her situation changes dramatically. Clarissa meets Gabriel McLeod, a poor cabinetmaker, and her interest in him places her in direct conflict with the ethnic and social prejudices of the period. Their burgeoning love is quickly tested when her stepmother’s machinations lead to Gabriel’s financial ruin. BANISHED LOVE follows Clarissa on her journey as she struggles to suppress her fears and overcome the dictates of family and society in order to live the life she desires with the man she loves.
My Review:
I'm just going to come right out and say it has been a while since I've read a really good historical romance. I love them, I do, but there seems to be some recurring themes in which the ones I've read recently turn out to be the same barn, just with different paint. I was, as you can probably imagine, rather happy to find that Banished Love wasn't that same barn.
Clarissa Sullivan is a bit... let's just say clumsy. Leaving the school where she teaches to immigrant girls on a rainy day, she rushes to quickly get to her uncle's store. Ignoring the closed sign(her uncle is always happy to see her), she rushes straight in and runs right into the ladder that Gabriel McLeod is on top of, causing him to fall to the ground with a quite a few injuries. Meeting him sparks Clarissa's journey through social prejudice as she must learn to look past what society, and her own family, think and say and follow her heart.
I really loved this! Thanks so much to Ramona Flightner for showing us the world of 1900 Boston through Clarissa's eyes. I absolutely adored her spirit and found this story to be way more than just a romance novel. I recommend for fans of historical romance, or good quality fiction in general. Very descriptive, I always felt like I was right there in the story. It sort of reads like one of your favorite Hallmark movies(anyone who knows me knows how much I love those!). I'm curious to see what's in store for us next from this author.
*I received this book to review from the author. However, this in no way affected my review.*
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