Review: Not sure why this was released as part 1 and part 2
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 17, 2013
As much as I liked the separately published first half of this story (Her Ladyship's Curse) I was disappointed that I wasn't all that fond of this second half.My major issue with 'part 2' might be that this really was a second half of a book and all of the world building things that I liked about the first book - the alternate US in which the the Brits won the Revolutionary war, and the heroine's staunch belief that there is no real magic in the world - was not revisited and having read the first part a while back that was not still in the forefront of my mind while reading this. But that's only a small part of my issues with His Lordship Possessed because in try to express what worked and didn't work for me here, I realize that I have a lot of nits: the stubborn heroine in peril, her sudden shift in attitude towards her long time nemesis, the confusing addition of a set of possessive spirits in the world building and the use of a big 'undo' at the end to solve everything that left me feeling sort of jerked around and sort of disconnected from the story when all was said and done.What I did like is the supporting cast, I thought that they were well done, and I did like the Toriana (alternate America) parts of the story.Still the whole thing didn't leave me with a good idea of where the series was heading and didn't leave me with that 'have to have that next book now' feeling. It did leave wondering why this book was split in two - since the second half doesn't really stand on it's one - and wondering where this series is headed next.