For Love or Honor by Sarah M. Eden

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars

Category: Adult
Genre: Historical Romance
Content: Clean

 
From the moment they met, Marjie’s heart has belonged to handsome Captain Stanley Jonquil, younger brother of the Earl of Lampton. But six long months ago, when Stanley’s sense of honor required that he do as he had sworn and return to the Continent to fight in defense of King and country, neither Stanley nor Marjie could have dreamed what the cost of his service would be. It has been ages since Stanley last wrote, and Marjie and the Jonquil family are plagued by his unknown fate—until the day he unexpectedly reappears. Marjie’s joy, however, is quickly shadowed by confusion—the aloof, battle-worn soldier before her is not the man he once was.


I've been reading this series for several years now and I'm still really enjoying it. Of course that doesn't mean it is without its flaws. Marjie was an ok character, but she cried way too much over things. I thought she needed a little more backbone. She was in many ways the exact opposite of her sister Sorrel, who was in the first book of the series. And I found Stanley to be incredibly annoying with his overblown sense of honor. However, I could still empathize with him as he struggled to overcome both physical and psychological wounds from the war. I was a bit disappointed that Stanley didn't ultimately come to the decision that he comes to in the end on his own, but that he had to have someone else give him the 'out' he needed.