Alinor’s ex reappears, offering a pile of money, marriage, and adoption of whichever child is his heir. Then Rob’s widow appears, a Venetian noblewomen with a baby and tragic tale of Rob’s drowning death, and starts telling obvious lies and spending all their money. I found myself skimming because there were just so many scenes of Livia being shady and Alinor silently, skeptically handing over money to her. This is interspersed with a second, equally slow-moving storyline of brother Ned in New England. Again, we have hints of coming tension, dragged on and on.
I read all the way to the end, because I kept thinking I must be missing something, or that something would pull it all together. By the end, when all the drama exploded in about an hour of book-time, I realized I no longer cared to see justice done. I was on Team Nobody by the end.
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