Review: A Little Bit Scandalous
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2014
A pathetic book; I was unable to discern a genuine plot; the heroine, Caroline Jellico, dresses like a boy in order to enter a gaming establishment where she counts cards and wins quite often. Caroline is the ward of Monroe Grisham, she is in love with him and he wants to pull her clothes off and have sex but he is determined to not marry her and has told her so. Among his reasons are: his father was a poor husband and he doesn't want to follow in his steps; he was in a relationship once and he kissed another woman; he left Caroline's brother in a hospital in Hastings when he was very ill with cholera and her brother died later. It didn't seem to matter that Monroe was also very ill, unconscious part of the time and removed from the same hospital by his father who declined to take Caroline's brother along with them. The author repeats some of the same information two or three times, it appears that she had problems coming up with writing material, better that she had employed brevity and cut the book to four or five chapters than dragging it out to sixteen chapters. To say reading the book was tedious is an understatement, and it should go without saying that I would not recommend this book.