Lady in Waiting by Susan Meissner

Title: Lady in Waiting

Author: Susan Meissner

Publication: Colorado Springs : Waterbrook Press (2010)

ISBN 9780307458834

Format: Paperback ($13.99 US) 332 pages

Acquired: I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.

LOVE IS A CHOICE
YOU MAKE EVERY DAY.
Content I her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay had never expected to watch her husband, Brad, pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home. But when it happens, she feels powerless to stop him and the course of events that follow Brad’s departure.
Jane finds and old ring in a box of relics from a British jumble sale and discovers a Latin inscription in the band along with just one recognizable word: Jane. Felling an instant connection to the mysterious ring bearing her namesake, Jane begins a journey to learn more about the ring—and perhaps about herself.

In the sixteenth-century, Lucy Day becomes the dressmaker to Lady Jane Grey, an innocent young woman whose fate seems to be controlled by a dangerous political and religious climate, one threatening to deny her true love and pursuit of her own interests.

As the stories of both Janes dovetail through the journey of one ring, it becomes clear that each woman has far more influence over her life than she once imagined. It all comes down to the choices each makes despite the realities they face.

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When I first saw this book I thought that I would enjoy it. It seemed interesting and I have been reading a lot more historical fiction lately and really liking them. However what I had a problem with was not the historical fiction chapters but the modern Jane. I thought Jane was dull and I could barely keep my attention on the book. The writing was great: descriptive and vivid in the wording. As cliché as this may sound: it was not the book that was the problem but me that just could not get into the book. The book was almost a chore because unlike many books where I can stop at any time I had to finish this book for the review that I promised to give to the site Blogging for Books.

I read this book so fast that I cannot really recall much of the plot or the characters. I was pretty much a very big blur that went by without my really picking much up. On the up side I really enjoyed the historical part. Lucy was my favorite character out of the whole book. I think that it is because I like how the help always end up knowing everything that happens in the house where the actual family never knows everything that really goes on. There are always so many secrets.