Review: Gosh!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 24, 2013
Sorry but it did not work at all, at least for me. I read the first book and was rather disappointed (I have never found such an implausible villain, yellow nails included, and I hope I never will) but I tried with the second because I am a sucker for the strong-scarred hero only to be disappointed again.The characters' motivations are thinly believable but their actions are highly unlikely and historically inaccurate: the H&h; live without chaperon in the same house, sleep in the same bed, frolic in garden/lake with her in her shift and the H, even though he loves her, doesn't want to marry her for "her own good". I am a sticker for propriety, at least in books ;-) and I am sure that at those times a man should have married right away (love or not) any woman he was found alone with, after 10 minutes! He compromises her, they love each other and he does the noble thing and renounces her: it does not make much sense.  It is a pity because both Marcus and Emma are nice and rather well developed, but they actions do not fall in line with the times.