I had inundated myself with reading several British chic-lit books in a short time and I was ready for something slightly different. BAGGAGE offered me the British chic-lit style but with a new backdrop - the Australian outback.
Lina is married teacher with a 10-year old adopted son and a baby on the way. When a vacationer from England happens upon this small Australian town in the hot outback, Lina's relatively normal life takes on quite a twist. Sex, lies, drugs, and scandal all make their way into this story, just to name a few.
Although this story came across as predictible, it kept me interested until nearly the end at which point I feel the story slowed. However, I do think it's quite worth the read. Emily Barr creates an excellent depiction of scandal in a small town, and makes her characters believable.
The past can always come back to haunt you...

When I picked this book up, I thought it would be a typical chick flick ~~ it wasn't. Much to my surprise, it's somewhat of a mystery book ~~ and I enjoyed it immensely! At least, I have a better idea of what Australia is like!

Lina is preoccupied with hiding her pregnancy from the villagers of Craggy Rock, a desert town in Australia. She hasn't even told her 10-year-old son yet ~~ and the next day, her whole life changes upon a chance meeting with an Englisher who was insistent that Lina is her best friend, who had disappeared ten years previous. Lina insists that she's Lina, wife to Tony and mother to Red ~~ is she hiding something more than she is willing to let on? And Barr writes convincingly of a woman with a past ~~ how the past catches up with her and the sleazy journalists who swarmed over the sleepy desert town just to get the hottest story of the year.

It is a quick read ~~ perfect beach read ~~ and it's not one of the fluffy chick lit either. Don't let the cover fool you. If there were sex scenes in that book, there weren't that many and it wasn't graphic either. The characters were more preoccupied with alcohol than sex ~~ which is an unusual change of pace for me! But it was an enjoyable read ~~ Barr is one author I would like to read more on...

Baggage is a suspenseful and complex novel about a woman who thought she had escaped her painful past. Lina Pritchett has finally found the normalcy she's always craved. She's an elementary school teacher in a small Australian town, has a loving husband and an adorable adopted ten-year-old son. However, her ordered world shatters when she reunites with an old friend -- a friend who had left her for dead years ago. What is Lina hiding? And will she be able to escape her past again? To make matters worse, she is pregnant. There are various twists in the novel.

Emily Barr is a great new voice in fiction. Baggage is readable from cover to cover. I devoured it in two days. I look forward to reading Backpack, her first novel.

I have had this book since it first came out and nearly all the recipes have come out with great sucess. I have received raving complements as well as requests for the recipes and, as a result, this book has been given to many people as gifts. I must state though the task at making most of these recipes, on the other hand, is usually very time consuming and difficult. This book is not for the beginning baker as there is little help in the "how" or "why" of doing things. As an experienced baker, I have been able to master the recipes to much sucess. The Tuscan Cake is to die for.

I am a caterer and personal chef and have used this cookbook for years. Most of the recipes are superb. Favorites include the gingerbread squares with warm apples and sabayon and the espresso shortbread. I have also made the cinnamon rolls several times and have had excellent results. My copy has been used so often that the pages are falling out of the book!!

I bought this book and have tried many of its recipes and I must say it is a book well designed and the recipes are all kitchen tested. I have dinner guests raving about the desserts I made and the one that is mostly requested is the Drunken Chocolate Cake! I am so pleased with the book that I bought 4-Stars dessert and I am eagerly waiting for the next one to be written by Ms. Luchetti.

Neville, Emily. It's Like This, Cat. Illus. Emily Weiss. New York: Harper and Row. 1963. Markman, Lisa Hermine. "Child's Work Is Child's Play: The Value of George MacDonald's Diamond." Children's Literature Association Quarterly. 24.3 (1999)119-129.

Dave is the main character of the book, It's Like This, Cat. He gets a cat from his friend Aunt Kate. He quickly names his new pet "Cat." Throughout the story, Cat helps take a part in Dave's new found relationships with friends and family. Dave and Cat go on new adventures together and meet interesting people. This Newbery Medal winner was really fun to read. The descriptions of the cats are the best that I have seen in a children's book. In, It's Like This, Cat, Neville successfully awakens the reader's visual senses. The description of fine details of cat places the reader inside the book and allows him or her to visualize the vivid images on each page. Neville captures the sleek movements of the cats in this book, from the twitch of the tail to the lazy play of the eyes. For cat lovers, it is a joy to see how these fury friends are captured in their playful and lazy manners. With this description, Neville creates a fascinating world that is easy for the reader to enter. Once inside, the reader is also able to get an up-close view of the special bond between Dave and Cat. Cat soon becomes Dave's best friend and they begin to do everything together. With the visual senses awakened, one can feel that they are seeing inside the story, and capture a deeper meaning than one would have if the images were not so life-like. These life-like images make this novel hard to put down. One thing that I feel that Neville really captures in this book is the real innocence of child's play. In the article, "Child's Work is Child's Play: The Value of George MacDonald's Diamond," Makman states that shortly before the time period that this book was written, "...the idea of an economically worthless but emotionally priceless child emerged. A carefree, labor-free childhood came to be understood as a fundamental right of all children regardless of their social class; simultaneously, childhood became an increasingly popular locus for fantasies about leisure and freedom from adults" (119).

The reader gets a sense of this carefree, labor-free child in Neville's work. She depicts Dave as worry free child who is free to explore the world with his favorite toy of all, his cat. Dave does not have to deal with the struggle of a job but instead has supportive parents and a warm home where he is nurtured and loved. The structure and description take the reader on a great adventure with funny surprises, and a happy ending. I would recommend this book to any age reader who is looking to escape life's troubles and enjoy the adventures of a boy and his cat.

I first read "Cat" several years ago, and when I was in college, several of my friends and I read it (I passed it around to them), and we all loved it. Neville has sharp, concise writing, and it's a rare children's book that even adults can enjoy. Truly a book that both children and adults can enjoy; shows in detail why growing up can cause tension between kids and their parents!

This was one of the first books I remember choosing, myself, to read when I was about 8 years old. It's a very sweet story, but also has a good amount of serious reality to it. I'm from NYC and I loved cats as a child, so this book was a perfect fit. This book is an excellent way to get kids around that age to develop their love of reading -- and their desire to sometimes choose books over video games and TV. If your child likes this, also try "A Cricket in Times Square".

The writing is fairly decent and the circumstances of the author's self-destruction are certainly interesting to those of us who can't imagine sliding into that kind of lifestyle. She does a good job of answering the inevitable question: Why did you do it?

Yet I tired of the book half way through and was forced to put in down a few chapters later. And I rarely leave a book unfinished. I think Carter is just obsessed with herself and her family's "status". OK so she's a well-off jewish girl who grew up in manhattan with "intellectual" parents. And ironies of ironies, some slimey working class muslim guy gave her HIV. WOW. How many times does she need to discuss her background and how ironic it was that she became a junkie/prostitute? After a while it sounds more like pride than an explanation.

Ultimately, one wonders if Carter is really a writer or has simply done a decent job in telling her outlandish autobiographical odyssey. If she really thinks she's a writer, than she should undertake the task of writing something that's less of an act of narcissm.

Glory Goes and Gets Some is a great read, but also absolutely shocking. Some of the things this narrator does are incredible. As she narrates, she takes us through her life, instead of through a rose tinted view of the world, we see things as reality hits her at the moment. Her ups, and her downs, and her journey as she spirals towards the darkest parts of herself, at the end, still trying to understand who she is. Emily Carter does a great job with this book, I found myself able to see the character through her eyes, although some parts I found rather personally distasteful (like the part where she mentions having had faked at least 100 orgasms before she hit her mid-twenties is horrible! And having sex with some guy just for [$]! Whoa!) and some parts I was left wondering why it was even mentioned, but it was all still part of what made the reading so unique and the main character so refreshingly different.

By this series of semi-autobiographical short stoies, Carter established herself as a promising new writer, who already sounds like a master. With her own very unique and artful voice, this collection maintains certain quality. Yet, what shocks us most here is her signiture first person narrative style with which she achieved the excellence of one-woman show that is the entirely objective, fearless and pitiless self-exposition, sometime with the brutality of her sincerelity, sometime with the breathtaking wisdom that came from her entirely collected self- awareness.
Even though there are some dull moments during her too remote and unenvolving handle of third person narrative stories, this collection 'Glory goes and gets some' forever rocks and wails for readers such as youth in cities, having hope only to get despaied or women in all ages when they have doubt for their lives. Read 'All the men are called MaCabe', and hail Carter's cleverly woven, almost singing-like modern day life lessons. You will find it only comes back to ONESELF, which is the very favorite word [self] of Carter as she claims.
Am very much looking forward to reading Carter's next work.

a hyper-intellectual author with a flair for exquisite writing, writing a mostly dull memoir, with its most interesting part being her whopping idealization/idolization of her semi-famous therapist Leslie Farber (he symbolically = her parents), who seemed to have primarily his own best interests at heart as he performed her therapy. She seemed to start to dabble with this thought by the end of the book, but didn't really run with it at all. Although I found the book readable (primarily because I was interested in reading about the behind-the-scenes Farber), I found her life dull primarily because I felt she wasn't really accessing her deeper emotional issues, and was mostly just skimming across the emotional surface, and distracting the reader from that fact by her gorgeous, poetic writing...

aside: that both her parents (and her brother) went to swarthmore came as a surprise to me, but shouldn't have. I went to swarthmore too, and found it a highly emotionally uninspiring and dead place, with most of its residents and the institution itself troubled but masked behind a veneer of intellectual brilliance.

Mockingbirds are notorious for their propensity to mimic almost any sound. I believe Ms. Gordon uses the mockingbird as metaphor for the patient who becomes dependent on therapy and interacts with the therapist by saying and doing imitative things she "learns" through therapy. Ms. Gordon sees modern times as the age of therapy, when "healing" and "conseling" are seen as ways to cure anything and everything. She suggests classical therapy robs the patient of creative individuality, of the ability to be imaginative

Emily Fox Gordon writes beautifully. Of her early life with her mother she remembers... "When she bathed my brother and me, she floated candles anchored in halved walnut shells in the bathtub. She turned off the lights, lit the candles, and stood smoking a cigarette in a shadowy corner of the bathroom as we sat in the midst of a small shining armada."

But things did not remain idyllic. As she grew up, her parents abandoned her emotionally--Gordon's mother became addicted to pills and alcohol, and her father involved in a high-level career. She became depressed, attempted suicide, and thus ensued many years of classical therapy.

Fortunately, Ms. Gordon finally worked with Dr. Leslie Faber, a psychiatrist who helped wean her from her dependence on classical therapy via his "talking" method. Later, Dr. B. helped her end her dependance on Dr. Faber. She says of Dr. B., "like the Cheshire cat, he began to vaporize, leaving nothing behind but a glow of unconditional positive regard....In resisting his impulse to lure me back into the charted territory of psychoanalytic explanation, he granted me my wish to be realeased into the wilds of narrative."

Ms. Gordon's wonderful book is the result.

This is a brilliant book. Emily Fox Gordon describes her life "in and out of therapy" with poignancy, wit, insight, and irony. Much of her story is moving, even harrowing. But there is an extraordinary ability to observe, to remember and to comment with humorous detachment, an evocative conjuring of telling scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Added to this is her perspective on therapy -- or, more exactly, on the various forms of therapy. She writes acutely not only about her own development, but about the ways in which psychological help is given, on and away from the couch.

At the center of the book is her relationship with the unorthodox therapist Leslie Farber, and with his family. In her beautiful narrative of how she learned from the Farbers' friendship, Gordon offers profound understandings of human relationships. Her story touches on the great issues of literature, on the meanings of family and friendship, and on the struggles that individuals undertake to create -- or to find -- themselves.

Deeply absorbing, elegantly written, *Mockingbird Years* should leave no reader unmoved, no reader unenlightened. It is an extraordinary debut.

After reading the many differing reviews about "Lord Huntingdon's Legacy," I couldn't resist picking this Regency when I came across it at the library. And I'm glad I did as I'll have to admit, flaws and all, this novel did provide me with a couple of hours of pleasurably reading. I loved Emily Hendrickson's rich and lush descriptions of all the clothes that Charis (the eldest Huntingdon daughter) was provided with for her Season -- reading about the fashions of the Regency period is one addiction I'm always happy to indulge in, and I really do enjoy it when an authour goes into some detail about the dress patterns and colours and fabrics. Another thing I liked about this novel was the very close relationship that the sisters, Charis and Harriet, share. We don't see very much of this, but what little there is speaks of a deep and affectionate bond between the two. And the manner in which Hendrickson portrayed the villainess of this comedy of manners, the conniving Lady Alicia, was absolutely brilliant (esp as this allows us to see Charis at her interfering, yet well intentioned best). The reviewer at Huntress Books is quite right in her assessment of this character: here is someone that it would be an absolute pleasure to dislike immensely!

However this novel is not without flaws. The biggest one of which lies with the storyline where the dead Lord Huntington has cut out his wife and two daughters from his will, and left all his money to his nephew, Marcus, instead. I kept waiting for revelations as to why he did this, but this plot-line was just never developed at all. There were hints here and there that because his wife had only borne him daughters, he had transferred all his care and affection to Marcus. But I found it hard to credit that a father, esp one (who we can assume) did not hate his wife and daughters immensely, could leave things so very, very badly for his own daughters, mainly because they were not sons (esp given that things were not quite so rosy for women in the early 19th century anyway). Also, how did it come about that the appropriate marriage settlements had not been drawn up for the Dowager Lady Huntingdon when she married Lord Huntingdon? Surely her father would have seen that things were done properly when she married Lord Huntingdon?

And while I rather enjoyed all the tantalising tension between Charis and Marcus -- I enjoyed the sly tone that Hendrickson employed whenever she was commenting on how Charis keeps refusing to face her attraction for Marcus until it is almost too late -- I found Marcus's behaviour odd to say the least. Here, I think I'm at odds with a few of the other reviewers. I understood Charis's poking her nose into Marcus's affairs -- she is still in love with him, even if she refuses to admit it! And love, coupled with confusion and a healthy dollop of resentment, can make any young woman behave quite foolishly. Usually I dislike heroines who behave like nitwits, but I found myself feeling quite sorry for Charis, and wishing that Marcus would stop playing this strange manipulative game and woo her properly. For if you come down to it, the reason why these two have to play games is completely Marcus's fault. He's the one who withdraws from Charis when she probably needed him most, and that together with the shock of not being her father's heir, is what propels her to decide to hunt for a rich husband. And anyway, if he's truly been in love with her all this while, what on earth was he doing in London, flirting with the likes of Lady Alicia? And here we come to my next criticism of the novel: the manner in which Emily Hendrickson ties things together by having Marcus play a rather cruel joke on both his good friend and Charis. This, of course propels a grateful-to-be-rescued Charis into Marcus's arms, and allows for the pair to confess their love for each other. But I would love to be a fly on the wall when Charis finally discovers the merry dance that Marcus had led her through!

Flaws and all however, "Lord Huntingdon's Legacy" is still an enjoyable and entertaining read, and one that I would recommend if you're looking for a couple of hours of escapist fun.

Emily hendrickson is one of my favorite Regency authors. I appreciate the lack of jarring contemporary references, and her books are well-researched and written. *Lord Huntingdon's Legacy* was loads of fun to read, though I would have enjoyed hearnig more about her sister and her delightfully dim Mother.

Emily Henridckson is one of the finest Regency authors around, and her descriptions of gowns, etc. are mouth-watering. Her characters are always superbly drawn and sympathetic, except for the vilains and villainesses, of course, and they we LOVE to loathe. This book gives hours of enjoyment, and a completely satisfying ending. I'm now ready and eager for Hendrickson's next. May it not be long in coming.

As a work of entertainment literature, this book is dry, boring, slow, and not worth reading. All of the characters are hateful, and unrealistic. Now, I'm not going to lie to you, it has many interesting philisophical concepts. Some of which are love, the supernatural, and human nature, however, the book was so uninteresting, and depressing, I would have rather read it out of a textbook. Bottom line - Hopefully I'm just a shallow uncultured reader, and you will find much more enjoyment in it than me.

OK, it's still one of the best editions available (the 3rd edition, I mean), especially if you don't need non-dialectal notes (there are almost none). A very useful selection of early critical reviews, an intelligent anthology of Emily's verse (and that's very important), and a good selection of good, modern critical essays. Who may want more? I, for one, want notes.

As far as the text itself is concerned, it WAS a rather good edition that looks very much as if one takes the second, Charlotte's 1850 "improved" edition and drops it into a 1847 paragraphing and -to a certain extent- punctuation mould. It's not at all -as one reviewer says- Emily's words, but these with almost one third of the Charlotte's and other improvements, as is clearly stated in the Textual Commentary by Sale Jr. So far, this is not a big problem in itself, although we get 'door' instead of 'floor' at the beginning of Chapter 2.

Fourth edition comes with an improved anthology of reviews and of Emily's poetry, and much improved notes (although still on the scarce side). The text -claims let aside- is the same of the 3rd ed (eclectic, as scholars say), but the Textual Commentary has by now disappeared, and that's a pity. Perhaps it doesn't matter that much, but it isn't -as wrongly stated- the 1847 text.

Wuthering Heights baffles me. It's the most curious novel in 19th Century Literature, and the only novel I read each year regardless. I just bought this edition, for Emily Jane's words, unedited by her sister and others. It also contains some poems from Gondal, some diary entries, and a few criticisms, which are always lacking in my opinion. I learned nothing new from them, but the text is beautiful and worth the money, and the edition of her poems and how they play into Emily Jane's Gondal world offer a few new insights. I often think this novel is part fairy tale, part dream, part nightmare, part history. But it defies definition. Like Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake, it creates confusion and muddle for the scholar. The amazing sum of its mystery is that Emily Jane Bronte wrote it at all, this lonely, isolated, and ill woman from the moors of England. Read it. Think about it. Wuthering Heights is truly a mystical experience. If only the author had lived to write another complete novel, we might really understand her mythologies. I'll keep reading till I do.

I read both the book, and the other reviews. One reviewer mentioned he'd lived across the hall from some 'sluts' he knew, who were "nice people". His attitude is actually half of the problem, but that's by the by. Onto the book.

Emily White has given us an exercise in pinpointing the dangerous clique society that engulfs our schools and encourages seperatism and prejudice. The mentality behind labelling girls as "sluts" is fairly well discussed, and the author did actually hit a raw nerve with me, as I was one of those girls was *was* labelled. With that in mind, this review is admittedly biased.

I did appreciate the conversations with other "sluts", and I would love to see this book as required reading in schools everywhere. Perhaps the most startling thing about this book though, was the author's actual attitude towards these "sluts". On one hand it was sympathetic, and justifiably defensive of the whole stigma, but on the other hand, all too often it appeared that White was actually part of the problem, in her use of labels. Maybe I misinterpreted it. Regardless, it's an important book that's very accessible to a wide audience, and would be a great addition to any teacher's bookshelf. We can all learn something here.

wow. emily white has really put together a provocative book on this facet of the collective high school nightmare. after speaking with over 150 self-selected high school girls, white attempts to show that many of these girls came from similar backgrounds and suggests that there is an essential [jungian] archetype of the easy girl. while her theory has a few holes, she revives the feel of adolescence so vividly that her analytical transgressions are forgiven.

few of the questions white raises about the power of myth are original, but her pursuit of the real effect that this power has on individual lives is a refreshing change from statistics or rhetorical blather. the true stories are even more fascinating than the rumors that circulated earlier about these women, and white's storytelling is entrancing.

all in all, this is a page-turner that will give you a lot to think about. i hope i've learned a something about how it felt to be the most infamous girl in school, as well as a little lesson in tolerance and the aftermath of intolerance.

This book is beautifully written, lyrical in style and fiercely analytical in content. It tells the stories, sad and profound, of individual girls and women while pulling from those stories the threads of ancient myths and fears that keep us all enmeshed in the myth of the slut. Reading Fast Girls has the complex effect of making us squirm with discomfort while empowering us with the knowledge that the myth of the slut is greater than ourselves. Like Foucault's Discipline and Punish (but a much better read)the author shows how we are all victims of language and culture. Yet, this book doesn't force us to see past the wall of letters SLUT, it shows us the cracks, compellingly and deliberately, until what's revealed is what we already know in our hearts to be true. In a lesser writer's hands this might make us all breath a sigh of relief that it's okay then, not our fault. Yet Fast Girls manages to communicate the possiblity of a better way. The writer is a kind of poet-journalist, provocative without being strident, sensitive without pulling punches. Everyone should read this book (despite its weighty subject matter, it's a page turner!) AND it should be required reading for all preteen boys and girls. It could just change the world.

For those of us who know Rudolph Valentino by name and by reputation only, Emily Leider's new biography, "Dark Lover" is a good place to start in order to understand this major silent screen star who died so young. I've only seen Valentino in short moments from some of his films and I bought the book wondering who the man in front of the camera was. To this end, Leider does not disappoint.

The chronological layout is informative, especially when the author ties in Valentino's life directly with his films. The beginning of the book is slow and a little "over the top"...one knew very little about Valentino's youth spent in Italy, so Leider "fills in" a bit. But the narrative comes alive when he reaches the United States and especially after he acquires a certain amount of fame. If this weren't a book connected with Hollywood, the references to so many other stars that Valentino knew would be campy. But Leider knows how to tell a good story and how to use those around Valentino as wonderful (and sometimes hilarious!) props. The author's offerings about Pola Negri are worth the price of the book and made me laugh out loud.

Emily Leider tidies up the end nicely. Many authors of biography often finish their books with the deaths of their subects, but this book ends with a fairly full accounting of those who surrounded Valentino in life and survived him. Many period photographs are included and they add to the text.

As much as I enjoyed reading "Dark Lover", in the end, I wonder if Rudolph Valentino really had enough substance to warrant over four hundred pages. Much of Leider's work revolves around the emotional ups and downs of Valentino; emotional swings that tend to become tiresome toward the end. However, it's an easy read and a pleasurable one, too.

Anyone can write a biography of a film star. However not everyone's efforts are worth the time to read or the money spent. Luckily, Emily W. Leider is one of a rare breed, a writer who truly respects her subjects. DARK LOVER: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RUDOLPH VALENTINO doesn't give into the all too easy route of sexy gossip combined with careless writing.

Rudolph Valentino, like Leider's previous subject Mae West, radiated sex, sin and sensuality from the silver screen even to this day. DARK LOVER explores Valentino's youth in Italy, his early years in America, his peak as a Hollywood love god and his tragic death at the age of 31.

Under the costumes and behind the smoldering eyes was a man seeking love and family even as he make some disasterous life choices. Case in point, Valentino's two marriages to women who for their own reasons were light years away from the Madonna of the Hearth Valentino longed for.

The end result is a beautifully researched and fully fleshed portrait. Even buying DARK LOVER for the pictures alone is well worth the cover price for the evolution from gawky Italian boy to Hollywood legend.

If you have an unlimited book budget or save your pennies for books, DARK LOVER is a must have for the Hollywood fanatic.

Emily Leider's well reseached biography of Valentino is most welcome after a drought of over 20 years since the last good biography. This book is well annotated as to sources and offers many new insights to Valentino's early life as well as his life in New York before he became a star in Hollywood. I think that Valentino himself would welcome this book, he is treated with fairness and a level-headedness and without an agenda, other than telling his story. Leider traveled the globe from Castellaneta to Hollywood Forever Cemetery to search out sources for Valentino and the results in the book show!

An easy read, it was a pure joy and I could scarely put it down. This has my highest recommendation as the Valentino biography to read above all others currently in print (and many of those out of print as well!)

This is my first Allison Lane novel and I was utterly enchanted by her excellent writing style, interesting characters, original plotline, and fast paced action. This is one Regency romance where the author does not feel compelled to repeat the same agonizing thoughts in fifty different ways, but actually moves the plot with new thoughts and new actions. I found it hard to stop reading, and it is a short quick read. I hope her other books are as wonderful as this one.

Cherlynn was just a modern woman of the 20th century. A writer of Regency stories, she gains the chance for the best research of her life when she is transported back in time. To get back to her day, she must help Lady Emily to right the wrongs against her and Drew. To keep neutral feelings about Drew is difficult, especially when her treacherous heart seems to reach out to him. Another outstanding book by Allison Lane. Once again she has broken all the rules and turned out an awesome book.

First of all the heroine name is Cherlynn not Candace(what book were you people reading)? This is a story about a woman who has had alot of bad breaks, is Not beautiful nor is she very successful at her chosen profession. Who has the opportunity,at first against her will, to make right a great wrong by going back in time. While it's a shame that she wasn't accepted for how she looked or what she was in the present she has a second chance to take the "essence" of what she is and repackage it in a more desirable form. I LOVED her intellegence and the way she was able to show it off and correct all the things that went wrong. Ah, if it were only that easy. For all those who had trouble believing the evil woman of the piece, where is equality here. Woman can be just as evil as men and sometimes, unfortunately, do it better. And excuse me but this is a time travel book so what's the difference. Besides it only made the punishment all the more satisfactory. I also like the way the author wrote the last chapter to mirror the first only with a twist. It was very clever. And if I'm a little unhappy that there wasn't a little more "romance", I guess you can't have everything. Besides I have a good imagination so I can fill in the blanks. All in all I think the heroine came out looking better than the hero, but then it was her story anyway. And in the end they each got what they needed most, love and acceptance.