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August 24, 2009: Well...here's a new one from <a href="www.joyce-dipastena.com ">Joyce DiPastena</a>. If you caught her first book, <span style="font-style:italic;">Loyalty's Web</span>, then you were looking forward to this next installment of the characters she introduced. While this isn't a series dependent on each other for the reader, I'm sure it reads better, since you're already familiar with them, but for me, <span style="font-style:italic;">Illuminations of the Heart</span> was a stand alone novel.
Joyce has a way of bringing the locations to life with her descriptions and deep research. Historical novels are difficult to write and time consuming, but she didn't take very long between <span style="font-style:italic;">Loyalty's Web</span> and this one. I was really impressed with the plot outline she came up with and the research she did.But beside all that, the characters draw you into the story and make you want to read to the end so that you can figure out how everyone gets out of this impossible situation. grin. I don't want to give it all away...but you got to read it. Especially if historical romance is your cup of tea. Really!