Dr. Victor Farraday, botantist, scientist, and a physician once upon a time resides in the jungle of the Amazon in self exile…banishing himself from civilization and imposing the same punishment on his daughter…Eden Farraday.
Eden Farraday stays in the jungles of Amazon with her grief stricken absent minded Papa, a small contingent of locals, and Connor their hunter and protector. In the middle of the Amazon jungles she dreams of London and the sparkle of society and balls and handsome town dandies that will court her and dance with her. And of all her dreams…she dreams the most of finding love…she was not made for the jungle…She was made for love…
So when Victor tells her that they're moving deeper into the jungles, toward certain death, Eden is desperate to make an escape…An escape that comes walking or rather sailing to her as Jack Knight…
Jack, pirate, privateer, terror of the West Indies…and the black sheep of the Knight family…is sailing down the river with a small crew to meet up with his ship, the Winds of Fortune, off the coast out of the Spaniards reach…when he spots a beguiling and gorgeous creature with red flaming hair sitting up in the trees snipping orchids. A girl with courage and spunk…sort of like his perfect other half…but when he realizes she wants him to take her to London…he leaves her behind and goes on….
However determined as Eden is she stows away on Jack’s ship and thus a romance begins…a romance where both the hero and heroine treat each other with so much respect and love …where Eden understands how difficult life’s been for Jack being the bastard of an Irish prize fighter…having a mother who was ashamed of him and a father who never wanted him…Jack who had to bear the ire, the insults of society for what he was…for no mistake of his own…a society that denied him even a little self-respect…Jack who was unwanted unloved…Jack who shut civilization out of him…Jack who thought the only way to show them all was to do what they with all their blue blood and legitimacy and stupid airs and even money couldn’t do…Jack who had to try twice as hard to become who he was..and yet he was so lonely…and Eden…who was ‘sheltered’ from civilization, Eden who all her life has just wanted someone of her own to love…someone who needed her…needed to be loved by her…who loved her...how could make her feel that after all her exile she had finally found her world…Someone like Jack ….A marriage based on equal terms equal needs and equal respect and admiration….
A story that was turning out to be one of my very favorites….and then….disaster stuck both literally and figuratively…Jack wants to leave Eden in Ireland and go finish his business in London and South America…however Eden is angry that Jack is being as unreasonable as her father and is keeping her caged and away from civilization, She fails to see Jack’s insecurity…Jack’s fear that society would treat her as they had treated him…she would be insulted because of him…She would be rejected and She would be hurt all because of him…He didn’t want to see her hurt…this is where I dislike what Eden becomes…whiny, unreasonable, stubborn, and always complaining….and the story just goes down the drain when they go to London….I hated the tantrum that Eden threw kicking Jack out of her bed…She really went unreasonably overboard and sort of ruined the image that she had built in my mind in the first half of the book.
Well for Jack…hard yet sensitive, driven yet uncomplicated someone whose logic or reason you could easily understand… and may be empathize with…and for Eden’s character in first half of the book this would be a 7/10 book but…Jack and Eden…I liked you better on the ship…than in London ;) A 6.5/10
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