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The Captain's Dilemma (Signet Regency Romances)

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Gail Eastwood writes polished Regency fiction. This story of love between enemies---the French prisoner and the English lady---is beautifully done, and explores a subject not much written about. (The only other story on love between enemies during the Napoleonic era that I am aware of--and please correct me if I'm wrong--is the long-out-of-print Robert Louis Stevenson's last novel, St. Ives.) There is a perfectly horrendous villain! You will root for his downfall --- appropriately enough, at the hands of the heroic French captain. A good, romantic read and a good look at the historical treatment of French prisoners of war in England.

This is a fairly good story. If I used a grading system like school, I'd probably give it a "C+". The only way to describe it is sweet, or nice. There's no real "tension" between the hero & heroine. It is a different Regency in that the hero is a French prisoner of war, instead of a down-on-his-luck Duke or something like that. The characters are well developed, the plot is interesting, but still...it's lacking that tension between the hero & heroine. A just-good-enough read, but not a keeper.