The Romantic Prophecy: Simple, wonderful, swoon-worthy romance!
- Sue Menard
- Nov 9, 2019
- 3 min read
Karen Devitt is a young, beautiful and ambitious artist. She is also struggling to make ends meet. And to make matters worse her father has fallen ill. Through love and a sense of duty, she neglects her painting to be by his side while her brother, in the absence of their father, is forced to take over the family firm which is now collapsing under his stewardship, leaving the entire Devitt family in disarray and facing certain financial ruin.
Single, but not looking for love, Karen meets the dashing and ruggedly good looking Ralph Corbeck, a wealthy landowner of a prestigious game reserve in southern Africa. He is also a highly regarded businessman and a ruthless investor with a reputation as a womaniser. And he has identified and targeted the Devitt’s family business for an aggressive takeover.
From Karen and Ralph’s first encounter emotions run high, and unwittingly, Karen is lured to his game reserve where she stays at his extraordinary safari chalet, Vundu Lodge. Here, she begins to get an insight into the real Ralph Corbeck. Betrayal, deceit, jealousy and love all have their role to play, and the inferno and beauty of the African wilderness fuels this searing and beautiful romance.
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MY REVIEW
I didn’t really know what I was getting into with this book. It is so much more than I was expecting. It has a rich scenery that backgrounds a budding romance.
It caught my attention from the beginning and was interesting. It also had some small entertaining hijinks along the way. The progress of Ralph and Karen’s relationship in the beginning is slow, lukewarm and tentative at best. As the book progresses however, their relationship blossoms.
The descriptive writing, however, does make me feel as though I am there at Vundu Lodge.
During the time I read this book I came to care for these characters. The strong, honest and silent Ralph. Protective and humble he truly made his mark on me.
Creative and caring, Karen’s a perfect match for Ralph.
The colorful secondary characters made this book come together. They were as diverse as they were unique.
Overall, 3.5 stars because I found, at parts, the story lagged. I also wish I would have been moved a little more by the characters. It is a wonderful, colorful story and I wanted to feel all the feels but it didn’t move me as much as I’d hoped.
This book, for me, personifies true, swoon-worthy romance. Nothing over the top and nothing truly dark. Simple, wonderful, swoon-worthy romance! Sigh!
The gripping ending has me wondering what’s in store for Karen and Ralph. Definitely a cliff-hanger ending that will leave you wanting more.
I am eager to continue life at Vundu Lodge. To reconnect with its characters and the brilliant panorama of life and love in Africa.
I received an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tessa Andrews was born in Rhodesia and raised in Zimbabwe where she spent an idyllic childhood riding horses and camping with carefree abandon in the veld of southern Africa. She had a colourful upbringing and despite being attacked by a rabid jackal, contracting malaria and bilharzia, and being chased by a hippo, she still remembers her youth with great affection and waxes lyrical about her adventures.
Moving to England at the age of nineteen, she graduated from Brunel University and worked for a number of years within the publishing sector, primarily in London.
Moving out of the big smoke she has now settled in a quaint English village called Thriplow, well known for its annual daffodil festival and located just outside the famous city of Cambridge, England. She says she could not be happier.
Blessed with a beautiful daughter, an amazing son, and a devoted husband, she has begun her literary journey drawing upon her life experiences of holidays spent in the Zambezi Valley. Inspired by the wildlife and beauty of Africa, she has woven romance into her nostalgic tales, all of which have been garnered from the incredible game reserves she used to visit, and still continues to visit, to this day.
Tessa has recently joined Twitter so please feel free to follow her: Tessa Andrews @TessaAn37661016
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