Houses of Stone by Barbara Michaels

[Penfeather]

After reading your review of this book, Charybdis, and remembering Penfeather's, I am reminded of a line in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The heroine, Elizabeth, says to Darcy, the hero, these words, "I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly."

Well, of course it all boils down to opinion. I found the battle-of-the-sexes preoccupation tiresome and oppressive, the story dull, the characters witless. But that's not "the truth" nor would I mean to imply it is. If another reader has a positive experience, Michaels has accomplished something worthwhile. Who am I to criticize, if only another reader with opinions?