{"id":2425,"date":"2020-02-16T21:13:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T21:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2020-02-16T21:13:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T21:13:25","slug":"review-captain-kemptons-christmas-by-jayne-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/16\/review-captain-kemptons-christmas-by-jayne-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Captain Kempton’s Christmas by Jayne Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My second Christmas novella on the trot, and it\u2019s another good one, and (surprise!) another second chance romance. I still don\u2019t really get the whole Regency Christmas thing, and would have enjoyed the story just as much if it were set in midsummer, but whatever.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the premise: our hero and heroine meet and fall in love one summer, but there\u2019s no time to formalise things. He\u2019s a naval lieutenant, and is called back to his ship after only a fortnight. He asks her to wait for him, and she agrees, but\u2026 the next he hears, she\u2019s married someone else. Several years later, they meet up again at a Christmas house party. He\u2019s now a captain and she\u2019s widowed, but naturally things aren\u2019t that simple. He\u2019s resentful and jealous of her husband, and she\u2019s just about given up hope of a reconciliation. And so they dance around each other, being stiffly polite and really, I just wanted to bang their heads together. Would it be so hard for him to ask about her husband? Would it be so hard for her to unbend a little?<\/p>\n

There were a fair few flashbacks in this as the story gradually unfolds, and although I thought the characters weren\u2019t perhaps quite as sensible as they might have been, there were reasons for their hesitation (villainy ahoy!). I liked both hero and heroine, her reasons for marrying were excellent and the ending was terrific. As always with this author, the Regency feel was spot on. A good four stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My second Christmas novella on the trot, and it\u2019s another good one, and (surprise!) another second chance romance. I still don\u2019t really get the whole Regency Christmas thing, and would have enjoyed the story just as much if it were set in midsummer, but whatever. Here\u2019s the premise: our hero and heroine meet and fall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}