With this vast chasm between the family and the servants the book becomes reminiscent of Downton Abbey, with a sprinkling of Dynasty to give it a more American feel. In a complete contrast to the wealth and privilege of the Bradford family you are shown through Lizzie and the other employee’s the life of the servant. You only really see her through other characters view and only completely through Lane in one scene of the book. You meet the rest of the Bradford family from the Patriarch, who from everyone’s point of view has more money than emotion, right on down to the youngest Bradford, wayward Gin a middle aged woman with the mentality of a spoiled teenager.Īlong with the apparent heir Edward and the missing in action Max you’re also semi-introduced to the Matriarch of the family, the only member to actually carry the moniker Bradford, Virginia. This story arc on it’s own would have drawn me in, I adore ex-lover tropes, but JR Ward goes way beyond this and brings in several different story arcs and sub-plots.Īlong with Lizzie and Lane’s tumultuous relationship Ward pulls back the curtain on several other characters lives and reveals many a dark secret. Like any good romance Lizzie and Lane are once more thrust together and must navigate the murky waters that always seem to surround ex-lovers. Pretty quickly it’s revealed that Lizzie once had an affair with one of the heir’s to the Bradford line, Lane Baldwin. The Bradford’s being a supremely rich family who gains their wealth from successfully distilling bourbon since the 1800s. Once more I fell in love with her writing and the world she built.Īt the beginning of the book you are introduced to Lizzie King (not sure if the surname was supposed to elude to the title or not) who is the head horticulturalist of Easterly, a large estate owned by the Bradford family. Thanks be to Odin this turned out to be correct.
I was hoping because of the change of genre, this one being a contemporary family saga, that I would enjoy it more than I had her paranormal romance’s.
The digital copy of The Bourbon Kings sat, unopened, on my Nook for quite a while before I decided to download it and get stuck into it. Of course this didn’t stop me from pre-ordering it on my Nook, or the first book in her Black Dagger Legacy series, Blood Kiss. Because of my lost faith in the BDB series I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this new series. It didn’t stop me from reading the next book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood ( The King), but once again I become disheartened and put it down when I was half way through. Not since I read ‘ Lover At Last‘ and was thoroughly disappointed.
It has been some time since I’ve read anything by JR Ward.
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