Review: Great Fun, if you can Ignore Typos
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2014
The titular hoyden, Emma, is a wonderfully developed combo of cleverness, forthrightness, and naivete. Her sister, Lavinia, also turns out to have some real depth. And the duke/love interest, Alex, proves to be progressive enough and charming and lovely. I was impressed by how the plot, while not being terribly complicated, progressed believably and came together in the end. A fun and enjoyable read.I do hope that Ms. Messina gets a better editor before her next book is published. Some sentences had words missing or the wrong word, and there were a few inaccuracies (i.e. both sisters are called Miss Harlow when only the elder would be), and some anachronisms (at one point, someone asks Emma if she is "okay," which is American slang from the twentieth century). These bumps were not significant enough to stop me from liking the story, but were annoying all the same.