Review: Puh-Lease!!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2012
This book had so many things wrong with it that I really don't know where to begin.***SPOILERS***Poor grammar, spelling and sentence structure.A single woman in the 1800's "clubbing"???  Seriously???The dialog was stiff and very simple.  It was connect-the-dots conversations.  B-O-R-I-N-G!We had an emotionally unstable/abusive hero.  Several times during the story he went from normal conversation to raging, (usually at our heroine) and back again in the space of moments all the while physically abusing our poor heroine.Our heroine was a rather simplistic person...and very flat emotionally...which was a good thing since she didn't seem to mind (or even notice) the abuse.The author couldn't keep track of her own plot.  First our hero knows all the heroine's secrets...she tells him point blank...and he doesn't care, he just loves our heroine! (ahh)  Then, he's stunned (and raging [Seeing a pattern?]) to learn those same secrets later in the book.Story/plot is jerky and doesn't flow, jumping from point to point.  I think we could see how much the author wrote in one day by the plot jumps, she seemed to loose track of where she was going halfway through a scene.I just couldn't get myself to care about any of the characters.  They are all so one dimensional and flat.  Their personalities, their conversations, their emotions (even when raging) were just so...flat.The author had no understanding about 1800's medical practices.  A *Duchess* going to the doctor's office(!?) and waiting in a waiting room(!?!) and then our hero in a rage (you MUST see the pattern by now!) and barging into the exam room(!?!?!).  [And unless the doctor is blind and deaf and the exam room is the size of a football stadium I can't believe he wouldn't notice the hero 'slamming and yelling' as he raged.]And, our villain. You could tell where the author was trying to go and the sense of dread she was trying to create...I just wish she would have followed through and delivered it...but alas, our villain was flat and unimaginative and...well stupid.  I kept expecting her to stomp her foot and hold her breath to get her own way.All in all, if this book hadn't been free I would have demanded my money back.  As it is, I wish I could demand my time back.  What I don't understand is the 4 and 5 star reviews.  This was so poorly written I can only implore the author to take a few English classes, take several writing classes, buy some good history books and learn how to plot out a book.  It was a cute idea and could have been good, unfortunately it fell far short of even 'Meh'.Side note: Amazon, have you ever considered a negative star system for the rating of a book?