My rating: ⭐⭐
From the cover:
"Their romance shaped a nation. The rest was history.
1777. Albany, New York.
As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball. Descended from two of the oldest and most distinguished bloodlines in New York, the Schuylers are proud to be one of their fledgling country’s founding families, and even prouder still of their three daughters—Angelica, with her razor-sharp wit; Peggy, with her dazzling looks; and Eliza, whose beauty and charm rival that of both her sisters, though she’d rather be aiding the colonists’ cause than dressing up for some silly ball.
Still, she can barely contain her excitement when she hears of the arrival of one Alexander Hamilton, a mysterious, rakish young colonel and General George Washington’s right-hand man. Though Alex has arrived as the bearer of bad news for the Schuylers, he can’t believe his luck—as an orphan, and a bastard one at that—to be in such esteemed company. And when Alex and Eliza meet that fateful night, so begins an epic love story that would forever change the course of American history."
Could have been worse, but could have been waaaaaaaaaay better. The development of the story was crazy choppy, and the progression of Alex and Eliza's relationship was super weird. It almost seemed like what used to happen to me when I would start working on something. I'd have all these great ideas for key scenes, so I'd skip around and write those scenes, and then....bleh, I don't want to have to do the hard part of coming up with the in-between stuff! This book? Key scenes with no in-between. Its one big redeeming quality is that it's a relatively quick read. If a book has to be choppy and weird, at least it only took me a few hours to read.
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