This is the second book by Ms Corona, and I love it just as much, if not more than I did her first book (A Friendship's Love).

A Love of Conviction is the story of Eliza and William, and some of the story runs in parallel to A Friendship's Love (but you don't have to have read it).

Ms Corona has a knack for descriptive writing. While the characters are on the convict ship you can practically feel the roll of the waves, smell the sea air, feel the grip of the irons around your wrists and ankles. She draws you right in there with her characters, and it is as if you are sitting right there with them.

I am not a big reader of historical romance, but there is just something so real about this Settler's series. Ms Corona writes about Australia's convict history sympathetically and does not romanticise things. She does not glamourise what convicts went through, she tells it as it was, the good the bad and the ugly side of things. And this just makes me love her writing even more.

I cannot wait to see what she brings us next.