Review Detail of juliana_harris in Finding Camellia

the story starts off nicely done, i can still picture everything, every step every street faces, etc from the first chapter. And the love story is rather sweet, i really liked a character like Claude and a Character like Camellia. there were moments where i could feel their joy or their sorrow and i believe only a good storyteller can move people with their stories. But, the story itself and the way the characters behaved at times came out a bit short at times, some necessary details were left out and it was a bit to the imagination to do the job. Many things I feel were left unexplained, especially the past referring to Laura and Gilliard (it was his name right?) like the first scene where Laura is "working" or when it was mentioned that Gilliard had known Laura for many years as in childhood (?) ... Then, it feels also a bit weird that a whole weight in the story is the possible homosexuality between Claude and Lius, but then the young king easily changed the laws. like, how does that even work? and at the end the excessive adulation towards Camellia and the kids was perhaps too much. don't get me wrong i enjoyed Claude's jealousy every second but it felt like pushing it and cheesy all together ... Anyways, there were holes on one side and extra bits on the other side... Execution wise it needed just that bit more to be just excellent.