
I think we spend a little too much time on descriptions of clothes, but I freely admit that I'm not the most representative of women - maybe a lot of other women *want* that sort of detail.

You could definitely tell she had the idea in mind to write a book for each of them, because they're strongly-developed characters in their own right.ĭeveraux has a tendency to go full-tilt for the detail in her books as the narrator of one of her later books (Remembrance) says, romance novelists have to do a ton of research because their fans will never let them hear the end of it if they get a detail wrong.

The interesting parts of the story mostly have to do with the interactions between Judith and Gavin's brothers the brothers definitely seem the most fleshed-out part of the story (to some extent, even moreso than Gavin himself). There are several plotlines, each building to a climax and ending to make way for the next.
