Through a Glass Darkly

from Marlene-NL

To be honest did not finish this book. I don't know, it wasn't bad but the pace was so slow and after reading 150 pages not much had happened. Guess I am not a romance reader anymore. This is more romance than Historical Fiction I think? Update. After I wrote the above I had to go lay down and th...

from evymac

I read this historical fiction series backwards (not recommended) and sadly this first book was my least favorite. Quite possibly, however, that was because I do not enjoy this time period as much. That said, Koen's characters are very well written and she really does draw you into England and Fr...

from clue

The easiest and quickest way to describe Through a Glass Darkly is to say it is an 18th century soap opera. A saga written in 1986, it follows the fortunes and failures of a noble family, the Alderleys, in the early part of the century. Even as a child, Barbara Alderley was besotted with Roger Mo...

from PandorasRequiem

A sumptuous and truly riveting delight of a novel. It pulsates with threads of longing, passion, desire and heart-wrenching despair that intertwine the character's lives and destinies. I was enthralled with the rich fullness and the astounding amount of detail put into the description of the peri...

from Kasthu

In the tradition of Kathleen Windsor's Forever Amber, Karleen Koen gives us the story of Barbara Montgeoffrey, a young woman who matures as she ages. The story begins when she is fifteen and marries Roger, a man much, much older than herself but whom she is determined to marry nonetheless. Barbar...