Review: I so wanted to enjoy this story
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2013
as I had enjoyed The Duke's Tattoo which was so wonderfully different from other romances I've read.I'm sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but the second in the series was a trial for me to get through. Clun and Elizabeth's arranged betrothal, misunderstandings and unrequited love is an old hat in the romance world. Even giving the hero a tall woman wasn't a unique concept. Both Clun and Elizabeth's emotions are all over the place and they are forever running hither and yon - away from each other so that they actually spent very little time together. Clun's "Fury" of a mother didn't measure up to the b*tch I expected and she added nothing to the story other than to provide history as to Clun's feelings about love. The bear skin rug scene started my journey of disappointment. It made my teeth grind. Scant dialog, dialog that is repeated within a page from the original, but from the hero/ine's perspective. Worst of all? The endless narrative. Pages upon pages of dialog free narrative that could have added so much to the story had it been presented as "show don't tell". (I apologize for that but it's the only thing I could think of to discribe what I mean.)I hope the next in the series gets a dose of that special something that made The Duke's Tattoo the laugh-out-loud page turner it was. I will be watching out for it in the future.