Review: Begining held intrigue, but fizzled ...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2014
I bought this book in The Distinguished Rogues Bundle by Heather Boyd. This book is the second in a series of three books about 3 English Lord friends who all find love. After finishing the first book, ‘Chills’, I couldn’t wait to read ‘Broken’. I would classify Chills, the first book, as a regency romance, and this book is definitely more ‘steamy’. As far as the sexual content level goes, the book starts off with the Hero pleasuring himself a few times, though not in overwhelming  detail. Sexual acts that had been seen previously by the heroine are described throughout the book, though again not it great detail. The most graphic is throughout at least half the book the hero & heroine do almost everything leading up to the actual act, and it’s described in great detail, though *small spoiler alert* they don’t actually have intercourse until the very end of the book. *end spoiler*The book starts off very interesting and covered in a great shroud of mystery and it kept me reading in the beginning. Giles Wexham, Earl of Daventry, is in his country home taking a break from London, when an old acquaintance, the father of his once betrothed, ask’s if he can stay the night while passing through. He ends up leaving his daughter Lilly with Giles. Lilly and Giles were betrothed once, it was an advantageous and arranged marriage which was terminated by her father after Lilly had a serious accident. Than Lilly’s mother told Giles that Lilly died, so he has thought her dead these past few years. There is some intriguing mystery around Lilly in the beginning, but as she begins to heal and her and Giles become friends he just seems to accept it and things aren’t fully explained, I had a lot of questions when the book ended.The characters weren’t fully developed, though considering they never left the country manor, there was a decent job with adding in secondary characters to help the story along. It almost seems like this book was written by a different author than the first book was, things were glossed over and not fully explained, like how an invalid like Lilly, who couldn’t hold a conversation, was able to continually walk around and spy on Giles? The characters just accepted things as were and it was hard for me to do that as the reader. As I mentioned previously, I had lots of questions at the end. There were also a few editing errors, though not horribly bad, so it didn’t distract from the story.I gave it 3 stars because though it starts off great, and has a not so common plot, a lot of it was unbelievable, and instead of questioning it the characters all just went with it, so nothing was explained well.