...I love historical fiction and all the better that it was over 1000 pages. But after struggling through 250 pages of descriptions of a what people were wearing, of a woman flipping her hair every 10 pages and descriptions of 3 different sorts of rain where no one seems to get wet I decide that this is some sort of woman's book about the hinting scents of love and has a storyline with as much action as watching a puddle dry up...