This book definitely shows how easy it can be to buy an e-book, especially at a good price – I read a review, clicked over to Amazon and bought it without thinking too much about it. It turned out to be a good find!
Castaway Dreams by Darlene Marshall
(2012, Regency Historical) 8/27/12
Grade: 4
Navy surgeon Alexander Murray is convinced that Miss Daphne Farnham is completely useless and brainless – the only thing on her mind is ribbons and bonnets and her fluffy dog PomPom! Daphne is convinced the surgeon is old and humorless. But when they are stranded on a desert island, they find there is more to the other than expected – but are their positions still too far apart?
This was a fun book with a lot of charm. There were some pacing problems (the beginning was slow, and the love scenes started to get tedious after a while) but the characters were well written and believable, and I found myself eagerly turning the pages (well, the virtual pages) to find out what would happen next. It was very enjoyable to see both characters grow and change through the book – something you don’t see all that often in romance.
There were definitely some plot holes in this book but it was just so charming that I overlooked them.
Karen Wheless
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