Wednesday, March 14, 2007

28. The Water Devil


By Judith Merkle Riley
Rated ★★★★½

This book is the conclusion to the Margaret of Ashbury series. I went over to amazon to read what others have said about this book and was surprised to read that most of the people who reviewed didn't like this one as much as they did the other two. The prevailing opinion seems to be that they liked the first book best and then rated them in the order they were written. Hmmmmm.

I am just opposite of that. I thought each book got progressively better than the one before. In this book Margaret's irrasible father-in-law plans to use Cecily, Margaret's daughter as a bargaining chip in a squabble with the owner of adjoining lands over the ownership of some property.

Margaret falls back on her friends who concoct a wonderful plot to save Cecily from being wed against her will. This is a sometimes funny, slightly melodramatic, love story with a perfect ending. Highly recommended