Helpful Score: 1
A by-the-numbers teen romance that is slight on history and characterization. The heroine vacillates between the Dutch sailor and the landowner's son from chapter to chapter on the slimmest of pretexts, and the supporting cast of characters are cliches of good, hearty lower class folk and scheming rich guys. Heather's father is another of the recurring "infantile adult" characters that pops up through some of the Sunfire books. The resolution with the scheming landowner is trite and forced. The shortness of the book (less than 210 pages) is no doubt to blame in large part for the overall cardboard feel, but I can't help but think that it could have been way better.
