There’s Mitch, Willow Creek’s brawny gym teacher, who plays the role of a kilted Scot in the faire. The story subverts a few expectations and features some pleasantly original secondary characters that Ms. This backstory defines him almost completely and I would have liked to see him portrayed with more depth, but stuck as we are in Emily’s head, we miss out on that opportunity. He has a sad backstory involving his family history that Emily views as a mystery (which is no credit to her intelligence – I figured out the big secret early on). The overarching impression I had of Simon was of a sweet, rather melancholy man (it should come as no surprise that he’s not 100% Pure Disdain).
DeLuca’s choice to tell the story entirely from Emily’s first person PoV instead of including the first- or third-person narration of both heroine and hero.
Simon, our hero, is a little less vivid, and this has a lot to do with Ms. She’s aware that of all the places she could be, Willow Creek is a good one, and she sees the best in the people she meets and in the peace of small-town life (Maryland never seemed so appealing). Emily, blessedly, is not that way at all. DeLuca could easily have written a character who was grumpy for most of the book, full of derision for the small town she ended up in and consumed with thoughts of how much more she deserved from life. The thing I liked most about her was her gratitude. The wench life chose me”, but she is a sort of modern wench – she’s rather foul-mouthed and is, in fact, a former bartender. Emily starts the book saying, “I didn’t choose the wench life. Well Met’s heroine is one of the book’s greatest assets. It all begins when they get put together in a fake handfasting ceremony, and soon they’re making out without an audience and she’s watching him sword fight, realizing that perhaps the pirate life could be for her after all. The only time they get along is at the faire, where they share an ongoing storyline that has her tavern wench character and his pirate character falling for each other.
Consequently, she interprets Simon’s disdainful behavior as expressing a personal objection to her. She’s sensitive about her life choices – particularly her decision to not get an education when she had the chance – and is hyper-aware of potential slights. Simon is the aloof but bossy ruler of his Shakespearean kingdom (he ‘inherited’ it from his brother) and Emily is not pleased to be dwelling in it. She’s not thrilled, but what really gets her goat is the faire’s boss, Simon Graham, English teacher and Renaissance pirate. Her niece wants to spend her summer doing the Renaissance Faire, and soon Emily finds herself committing to act as pseudo guardian and tavern wench. She’s fresh out of a dream-drowning relationship and is filling her time by living with and caring for her sister and niece in Willow Creek, Maryland, while her sister recovers from a car accident.
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