A Most Noble Heir by Susan Anne Mason is a historical novel set in England in the 1880s. It centers around the main character Nolan Price, who is a lowly stable hand for a well to do estate. But his life drastically changes when his mother tells him who his father is on her deathbed. Shocked by news and feeling as if everything he has worked toward is being diminished within minutes of this news. Nolan has no clue as to what to do next and what the next step for him in life will be. He use to have it all planned out, he would marry Hannah and they would live on a farm of their own. But now things were looking immensely different.
So I’ll be honest and say that the beginning is slow. Even though Nolan finds out who his father is in the first couple chapters, I feel as if it was very boring as to how it was conveyed. I felt I was being dragged through this story. I didn’t feel connected to the main characters, Nolan and Hannah. And I wasn’t too keen on their romance.
Maybe if we were first introduced to the characters and got to know them more, I would have sympathized with them and their situation. But with that being said I thought the book was okay. I didn’t care for it much but I know that some people would enjoy this book, I was just not one of them.
I received this book from Bethany House for my honest opinion.
