I like trilogies that follow a set of people and then let them go, maybe having them return for brief appearances. I saw that this one was supposed to follow Charlotte, the hero from the first novel's sister, and was hoping that the mention of William and Julia (from the first book) would be kept to a minimum. At 40%, there was more talk of the awkwardness William felt in the marriage than we talked about Charlotte. William was getting on my nerves a LOT. He was trying to be caring to his wife and yet gets frustrated by his feelings for her. Weird.
What little I picked up about Charlotte was confusing. She is planning on joining the Royal Navy to get to her "beloved" down in Jamaica, even though she thinks more about Ned, her brother's first lieutenant, than her fiance. She gets a plot in her head and sneaks away. Well, the problem I had was that when I stopped, Ned and Charlotte were on separate ships. Earlier in the book, there was a possibility that they would be on the same ship, but instead Charlotte cuts her hair and poses as a boy? I didn't have the interest level to keep going.
I just found it disturbing that at that point in the novel, I was feeling pity for Julia, annoyance at William, disinterest for Charlotte and learned so little about Ned that I was bummed that the novel wasn't more about Ned and Charlotte. I'm sure they get together eventually but at that point, I just felt like I didn't care. I got to it in time to get a refund for my money and took the third book out of my watch list. Not sure what other people saw in the book, but it just wasn't there for me.
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