Best Seller Books: Days of Gold: A Novel Review

Second novel in her newest "Edilean Series" Jude Deveraux takes us back to the origin of the name of the town in her first novel "Lavender Morning."If you are thinking that this new novel is going to have anything to do with the characters in the first novel you'd be sadly mistaken, this book could have just as easily been a stand-alone rather than part of a series.

At the beginning of the novel Edilean Talbot is a young heiress who looks to be saved from a forced marriage that her uncle as arranged for her to one of his horrible friends.She turns to Angus McTern, the former Laird of the lands that her uncle now owns for aid from her forced marriage but at first angry he refuses to help her.Fortunately for her a former love of hers concocts a plan of escape for both Edilean and her gold but Angus, finding it hard to not help a damsel in distress gets caught up in the plan and framed as her kidnapper.Forced to flee for America both Angus and Edilean must pretend to be married to get her gold safely out of enemy hands.With this intimacy a bond is formed and each one doesn't know what they will do in the new world without the other.Although he is scared of this change Angus sees the new world as an opportunity for a man like himself (poor but hardworking) to make a fresh start and get his own lands.Edilean is terrified that she will be all alone in this new world she is running to.Pride forces Angus to break away from Edilean as he doesn't think he's good enough for her.

I liked this book, but I can't really say I feel anything more passionate about it.Upon reading it I don't get the urge to pick it up and re-read it again (that's how I know it's a good one!).I found myself predicting what was going to happen before it was written and honestly there were really no surprises in the plot as I'm assuming Ms. Deveraux had intended.At the beginning of the book Angus has a beard but naturally upon removing it he's one of the most handsome men Edilean has ever seen.Haven't I read that in multiple other books before?The female character of Edilean reminded me of several of Jude's other heroines, while not necessarily a bad thing just made me think she could have used a little originality.I liked both Angus and Edilean, I just think she could have made the ending a lot more climatic and really gotten a good cry out of me, but it just wasn't there.In the end I'm left feeling a little sad at what could have been a great book, and I'm hoping the next in her series is going to be one.If you can wait for it to come out in paperback I'd say go for it, it's worth seven dollars but not twenty.

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