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Hearts Divided (Southern Angels, No 1)

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This exciting, romantic book was set against the backdrop of the Civil War. Elizabeth is a Southern belle from Virginia who was sent to a Charleston, South Carolina boarding school to become a "proper" young lady. But at the school's Christmas ball, Elizabeth meets Adam, a Yankee lietentant that she falls in love with. Elizabeth's father would forbid her to see him. The North and the South have become a divided nation. Will Elizabeth's loyalties lie with her country or her heart?

This is a very inticing book and the setting is great for people who like historical fiction. Elizabeth is a southern belle who met the man of her dreams right before the war broke out. When she's caught in the middle of what her father wants, what she wants, and the middle of fighting all around her, she has to mature from the person she was and put back what her heart wants and help others in need. Will she ever be able to be with the love of her life?

I love Hearts Divided because it really could have happened and it is well written. Also the other books in this series are exellent.

Elizabeth Stafford, a young girl from Virginia, wants more in her life then what is expected of her; namely that of marrying the right man that her father approves of, having children and running her own home. While she is a boarding school in Charleston, South Carolina all of that seems possible, Madame Corday expects them to use their brains and to learn, not just to be proper Southern ladies. While at the school's Christmas Ball Elizabeth meets a Union soldier, Adam Cranfield, and everything she knows is turned upside down. Mostly because he won't play the flirting game with her and that draws Elizabeth to him, the fact that he isn't easily swayed by a pretty face. But the Civil War is coming and as the two get to know each other and fall in love, choices have to be made.

Im a student at Santa Monica High and we were suppose to read a Historical Fiction book. I was really not interested in reading a historical book. But after reading "Hearts Divided" it changed what I felt about Historical books. Im really interested in reading the other books that follow this one. It was a very interesting book.

A fine YA romance set during the Civil War, and is better than the Sunfire "Susannah" in pacing and treatment of the slavery issue. Here, slavery is not glossed over by constant reference to "servants" as in Susannah. This book has a pleasing heroine with a complex family situation and feelings of isolation in both family and country. There is also some fine atmosphere of a Charleston girls' boarding school where the heroine and her friends are being groomed to be ladies in a changing society. The ending of the story wasn't what I expected - downbeat, with a glimmer of hope. It was very much like the Sunfire "Veronica" in that respect. I kind of wished it had gone on for another few hundred pages!

What people say in this book is very boring. Elizabeth is angry or crying on every page! You never get the sense that you are the person telling the story and the things are happening to you. Don't buy this if you want a deep romance story. Get it out of a local library and see what I mean.