Review: A bit implausible
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2012
Warning-this review will have spoilers in it.  This book had way too many unbelievable events in it.  Caroline thinks she can buy her way out of the marriage-after her father offers Devon 100,000 pounds?  Then she just decides oh well, I'll just get married. Devon has a bastard son, he doesn't tell Caroline.  She follows him to a cottage-looks in the window, sees him with his son.  She runs back to her horse, after falling twice, and manages to get into a sidesaddle alone-even though she isn't that good of a rider?  No one notices her?  When she tells Devon she knows about his son, his response is "well, I was going to get around to telling you"?  Then they decide they have to have sex-even though he has never seemed overly attracted to her?  Now he can't keep his hands off of her?  And how many men actually say "My word" after what they deem to be great sex? Caroline gets stuck in London slums not once, but twice, and makes it out just fine? She believes Devon is not a murderer mainly, it seems, because an innkeeper thinks that way.  While they are in London, the son he can't stay away from isn't even mentioned, or thought of.  Oh, then there is the party while they are in mourning. (Yes, I understand it was a ruse, but it was just not done.) I think those are enough examples.  Serendipity seems to run helter-skelter through this book.  Nothing bad can really happen to Caroline and Devon, no matter how many dumb things they do.  It would have been better if there had been just a bit of real tension between Devon and Caroline, not just a cold shoulder for a few days.