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(More customer reviews)For lovers of the "bodice ripper" genre featured in Harlequin romances there is a new author on the horizon and her name is Jannette Quackenbush. Her offering is entitled "Soaring on Moth Wings" and follows the formulaic plot development route taken by the likes of Rosemary Rogers, et al.
Like all of these books, "Moth Wings" has a historical setting (pre-civil war) and our young heroine Nicolette Beal is forced by cruel fate from one distasteful situation to another (beginning with working in a slaughterhouse and being molested by her slimy uncle). The reader follows Nicolette through several incarnations, as she emerges from her "cocoon "and slowly spreads her wings. (Yes, the metaphors abound in this saga).
There are the requisite number of lechers for our heroine to escape, among them one Charley Whitely. We are also introduced to Elijah Taylor, the man Nicolette loves to hate and we, as well as Nicolette, discover who she REALLY is and what roll Elijah Taylor has played and will continue to play in her life.
Pour yourself a glass of iced tea, get comfortable and settle back for another soiree into the world of historical romance. Not a bad way to pass a quiet evening. 2 ? stars.
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Set in the mid 1800's, fifteen year old Nicolette Beal begins to squirm from her cocoon of childhood into adulthood surrounded by a loving, but poor family in Cincinnati. After the death of her father, she finds herself tossed from a sheltered world into the harsh surroundings of the pre-civil war era. Like a tiny moth, she flutters about feeling diminished by the butterflies that flit gracefully around her, trying to figure out who she really is through her many adventures. It is not until she is taken in by the mysterious Elijah Taylor the metamorphosis truly takes place. Even then, she finds herself tangled in the web of the Taylor's schemes to keep her from a destiny that she is not so sure that she even wants in the first place. Enjoy this bittersweet taste of growing up during a momentous time in history before the Civil War.
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