Book Review: Emmie's Love Book by Janette Seymour

Some books don’t just tell you a story they surprise you, unsettle you, even make you question what you expected in the first place. Emmie's Love was like that for me. Was expecting a gentle historical romance, whispered with ballrooms, whispered declarations of love.

But the more I read, the more clever I became at realizing just what kind of book it wasn’t.

It was like walking into another day and age, an age that was elegant on the surface, but had secrets and dangers underneath. I was swept away to grand manor houses and candlelit corridors, but I also felt how trapped Emmie was, stuck as she was on the farm. Her family wasn’t the funny, overprotective one that I’d thought it might have been. Instead, she was a pawn, used to trade up for an advantage, and that made me mad for her in a new way that I didn’t even see coming.

There was even a moment where I was legitimately surprised. I quit reading there, way too awkward:

He forced her back against the wall, his mouth cruel on hers.

I had not steeled myself for that degree of danger. It made the stakes scarily real for me by making me remember that, in that time, a woman’s safety was so reliant upon others’ mercy. I could not get that scene out of my mind as long as I tried to delete it.
But the book wasn’t only dark. There were these intense, breathless moments between Emmie and Lord Vale that felt electric. He wasn’t purely noble he was conflicted, drawn to her in ways that felt both protective and selfish. I admit, I found myself rooting for them despite it all. This line stayed with me:

He wanted to save her. But he wanted her more.

It’s messy, but honest about desire.

When I first pick the book everything went apart from what I thought. I expected to read something sweet and got scandal, pure physical chemistry, and complicated emotions. The book came with mix feelings, uncomfortable, tense, dangerous secret

Emmie’s Love isn’t a nice-girl love story; it’s a story about the ins and outs of vulnerability, power and the way that obsession can both protect and imperil. For readers willing to be disturbed (and even disturbed a little), it serves as a darkly entertaining escape.

Verdict: Troubling, sexy, and hard to put down a historical romanced that’s not afraid to show its teeth.

My favorite Lines:

You have never been further from me than the next breath. Down there on the beach, when I saw you walking up the hill, it was as if you were walking out of my life. So I came after you.

You took my maidenhead, she said. And I rejoice that it was you the only man I have ever truly loved, or will ever love.

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