SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED READING THE BOOK, YOU WOULD PROBABLY PREFER TO LEAVE READING THIS CONTRIBUTION UNTIL YOU HAVE x. Something that I loved about this story is the plethora of ‘might have been a different story’ threads running through it. For Honor alone: if Samuel had honoured their engagement; if Grace hadn’t died; if Donovan had behaved differently and won her hand; if Adam had not chosen Abigail; if Judith and family had not had their own dreadful experiences in the past ….. it’s so like real life with multiple ‘might have been’ threads and it was as though I was partly reading those other stories too. This may have had something to do with Honor repeatedly merely reacting to her predicaments, before finally becoming proactive. She seems so real that I almost feel that I know her. I like the tense that it’s written in (not sure if tense is the right word) and that reminds me of the Harry Potter stories, and why I find those so easy to read – as though we can both observe Harry, and yet know his inner thoughts-as poorly as we know our own. Same here with Honor, it’s so intimate, just fab.
