Review: Not What I Expected
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2014
First of all, reader beware, this is basically a bodice-ripper. I had no idea of that when I started reading the book. It was billed as a Regency and I mistook it for a traditional Regency Romance. So, discerning readers beware. For those not opposed to some smut, this book isn't all that bad, but it's not really all that great either. The writing is modern, the author throws a lot of jargon around to try and give flair to the period, but at best it is a wall-paper historical with some rather amateurish sex scenes. The story-telling is ok, the plot is kind of interesting, but it hovers between where it wants to go and where the author draws her line. Which made for some awkward moments. The book could have been gloriously dark and really sexy, but the author didn't go there and we are left with a kind of juvenile story that never really grows into anything. It could also have been a sweet regency if the author would have cleaned it up. Either one would have been better than the mish mosh that we get instead.