The Lady and the Lionheart

Well, I really did want to give it five stars, because the characters are so vivid and the descriptions so lush... the incredible amount of non-traditionally formatted sentences really had my brain overworked. So many misplaced modifiers, so many verbs before subjects, so many change-of-tense-in-the-middle-of-the-sentence (nearly one per page on average) left my brain reeling to interpret the meaning and actually made me lay the book aside several times. Otherwise, I did find the writing to be very lyrical and even poetic.

Charlie and Ella and Holland all get instant five stars. Wow, what Charlie did when he took in Holland...gracious, who couldn't love him for that? There were so many favorite scenes that I can't list them all.

16+ for some mature themes (selling people, innuendo, and mentions of a brothel)