Book Review: The Test of Gold (Hearts of Gold, Book 1) by Renee Yancy @YancyRenee @maryanneyarde

 

The Test of Gold
(Hearts of Gold, Book 1)
By Renee Yancy

Publication Date: 15 March 2021. Publisher: Vinspire Publishing. Page Length: 335 pages. Genre: Historical Romance

Raised in the shadow of a mother who defied convention, but won’t allow her own daughter the right to make the same choices, heiress Evangeline Lindenmayer has been groomed since childhood to marry into the British aristocracy. 

When Lindy challenges her mother’s long-laid plans by falling in love with a poor seminary student, the explosion is bigger than the Brooklyn Bridge fireworks on Independence Day.

Book Rating:

📚📚📚📚📚 = I could not put this book down. I Highly Recommend.

📚📚📚📚 = A really great read.

📚📚📚 = It was enjoyable.

📚📚 = It was okay.

📚 = Um...! 😕

My Review
The Test of Gold 
📚📚📚📚📚

I haven't read a historical romance in quite a while, but this novel really piqued my interest. It is set in America (for the most part) in the late 19th Century and tells the story of one woman's ambition to rise to the very top of the social ladder, and another's desire to escape social convention and obligations and marry the man she loves.

Evangeline, like the servants, and I think, also her father, lives in fear of her mother's wrath. Her mother controls every aspect of Evangeline's life. Evangeline's only escape is by reading books. And it is this love for reading which meant she crossed-paths with Jack. At first, these unlikely pair become friends, but it isn't long before like turns to love. But there are many obstacles in the way. Evangeline must find the strength to disobey her mother and turn her back on the life she has been accustomed to if she wants to marry the man she loves.

I thought this book was fabulous from beginning to end.

I highly recommend this novel.

You can find it on Amazon UK, Amazon Us and Barnes & Noble

Renee Yancy is a history and archaeology nut who writes the kind of historical fiction she loves to read – stories filled with historical detail that immerse you in another place and time. When she isn't writing historical fiction or traveling to see the places her characters have lived, she can be found in the wilds of Kentucky with her husband and two rescue mutts named Ellie and Charlie. 

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