Review: I really don't know what to say about this book.......
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2013
It should probably have been described as a farce.  I read it to the end in hopes it would get better. It didn't ,  I really don't think this can be described as set in the regency era... the language and phrase setting was not right.  For example,  at one point Ethan ask Catherine..Will you stop crying already? "Already....???? Since when is that slang something someone from the regency era would say.  Here's another example - "Ethan gagged.  Like he wanted to be subjected to talk about decorating bed chambers".  ---using " like" in this fashion is a more recent slang phrasing.  So many parts of this book were ludicrous or rather farcical.... Ethan's mother ...a certifiable crazy woman ..why was she around so much after the wedding.  Her efforts to describe to Catherine what happens on wedding night is totally ridiculous, what a childish description.. "It's an appendage.  When a gentleman comes to bed it's going to be longer than when he leaves.  And then there is Catherine's father.....something's really wrong with that man.  He allows a madwoman to force him to agree to a wedding for his daughter, forces the daughter to get married after a really short betrothal. During that period decreed that the man could not go near his daughter and then spends months after the wedding trying to get his daughter to leave her husband and trying to browbeat and frighten said husband to death.  Now what can I say about the hero and heroine.....Catherine...so virginal she cried all through the wedding ceremony, so weak that she had to be physically supported after her wedding but by the night, she was strong enough to initiate intercourse with her new husband and by the next day even stronger to seduce him after one less than intense session of self exploration.  There is so much I can say about the male main character but in the interest of time...I will simply say ....weak  .  I am sure this was intended to be a farce.