We’ll Find a Way be Tia Lee

Not Quite What I Imagined

Serena is working two jobs to help her family. Her father is a drunk, and her mother watches over the other children. At her job as a cook’s assistant at a pub specializing in French food, she meets a Yale student who has an interest in mechanical engineering. They are from different social strata, but they have attraction and agree to court. What will his family think of this?

I will admit to being surprised at the storyline somewhat. The blurb didn’t tell the extent how much worse off Serena’s family was compared to Everett’s. The book cover suggests a romance of equals; by the way, Serena would never have such a dress. It also suggests a lightness and frivolity that this book doesn’t have. The author didn’t seem to have a grasp of what to call certain historical items, like various conveyances.

Unfortunately, this book was riddled with many errors in grammar, punctuation, and usage. Sometimes very long sentences that required commas had none or not enough; commas were missing all over the place. Words that sounded closed were mistakenly used, like ridged for rigid. I felt like the narrative was too focused on what precisely everybody was saying and doing rather than occasional commentary that added to the general feel and description of emotions and surroundings. We are often told rather than shown.