The Heretic's Wife, by Brenda Rickman Vantrease, is a fabulous historical novel. She switches between various viewpoints to tell the story, but it is primarily the story of Kate Gough. It is seamless, and very well written, but unfortunately there is, as in so many historical novels, flames. (I have to confess, I'm not through the book, but I can tell foreshadowing when I read it, plus I skipped around when the foreshadowing started smacking me in the face). I loved her previous novel, the Illuminator, which is why I picked this one up... It has a little bit of sex in it, but not graphic, for those to whom it matters (tasteful sex! What a concept!), but the character building is fabulous...
The Season of Second Chances, by Diane Meier. This was an amazing book. For once, it was one where romance did not solve everything, and the heroine was not married off happily by the end of the book. We need more books like this, with a middle-aged heroine discovering herself and putting down roots. I very much saw myself in this, in many ways (I'm a little bit younger, so am still dealing with the biological clock tick-tocking), and it was so refreshing to read something where the heroine discovers herself, make mistakes, and is NOT redeemed by an 11th hour romance. Where she screws up, as so many of us do. (Sorry, this one just resonated particularly poignantly with me because of some personal issues). And yet it ends with the possibility, the hint, of a second chance. The book is just a fabulous summer read.
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