SuitabookMarriage, love and status
Marriage is presented as intersecting with status, opportunity and financial reward, while Adelaide and Cedric are described as valuing love and respect.
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Richelle Mead - Author
This is a romantic fantasy about people negotiating marriage, status, belief and social expectations in a fictional world resembling colonial America. Friendship, adventure and intrigue accompany a relationship that becomes a passionate marriage.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a romantic fantasy about people negotiating marriage, status, belief and social expectations in a fictional world resembling colonial America. Friendship, adventure and intrigue accompany a relationship that becomes a passionate marriage.
Marriage is presented as intersecting with status, opportunity and financial reward, while Adelaide and Cedric are described as valuing love and respect.
Adelaide’s two closest female friendships involve women described as self-sufficient, clever and tough, despite being considered weak or decorative by men.
The story addresses religious freedom and warns that religious, racial and ethnic stereotypes are harmful, while asking characters to accept different cultures and beliefs.
Parents may wish to know that the story includes a near rape defended with a knife, references to religion-based murders, an assassination attempt, injuries, peril at sea, sexual relationships, social drinking and occasional insults.
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