Review - The Promise

The Promise by Amanda McIntyre

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32861935-the-promise

2 stars
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My first problem with this book comes in the beginning, where the author states that they are in an open carriage, yet later on she states that the girl is looking out the window. As I understand carriages, open carriages don't have windows. Maybe the author didn't understand that.

While this book is a cute, short romance book, and a sweet clean romance; it's not a well put together story. It has problems.

The storyline would work better in in modern-day times than in the time period that it is set in. It seems that people of this generation don't get the class distinctions and differences of older time periods. A guy like him, an immigrant just off the boat from Ireland, without  a penny to his name, would not end up with a girl like her.

She would not go to his place of work to talk to him with only a male servant standing outside. That would've been considered highly improper in that day and age.

If she were also poor, or maybe her father had a smaller business and they didn't have a carriage, then maybe they might've got together.

Also, they've come back from a trip overseas, a pleasure trip. They wouldn't be coming through Ellis Island. She and her father would've got off somewhere else besides Ellis Island, because they were obviously residents and not immigrants.

Plus, Ellis Island is an island, so someone wouldn't take a carriage from there. They would have had to take a boat to the mainland and then picked up their carriage.

I read the story because the characters are likable and it was a short story, but the whole premise of it just was not believable. I'm sorry, it was just not believable, and it was not well executed . Even though it is a sweet, clean, happily ever after story, I only give it two stars because I feel like the author failed in executing the storyline itself.

If you're going to write historical romance then immerse yourself in that time and what it was like to live in that time. Too many people today fail to understand how different things were. They just don't get it . They try to put modern-day ways and situations on historical romance stories, and that just does not work. I like historical romance, but I like it to be well done by someone with the understanding of the time period. This author just did not have a good grasp on that time period.