Review: Odd and Disturbing.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 21, 2013
What book were these other reviewers reading?  This book was worse than bad; if there were a negative star option I would have chosen it. Starting with a prologue that is beyond strange and all dark gothic madness this book manages to get even worse.  Prologue is all about the Hero's crazy mother, and I mean literally mentally deranged and violent.  It ends on the happy note that the Hero has inherited her particular brand of crazy.  So what does he do? -- He goes to work for a lawyer.*SPOILERS*  But it isn't long before the crazy sauce catches up to him so it is off to the moors of Dartmoor to go quietly insane under the care of Dr. Kneebones.  That's right, Dr. KNEEBONES.  Riiiiiight.  If that weren't bad enough he manages to inherit a title because when all the other family members are gathered at the Earl's house the roof caves in and kills them all.  Our Hero, having been in the throes of madness, missed this particular family gathering and therefore inherits the title of Earl.  Some other conveniently distant relative decides that he should marry and produce an heir so that the Title stays in the family and doesn't revert back to the crown.  While they all agree the Hero's madness was passed down by his mother, they don't seem too concerned that any issue of the new Earl might also be batshit crazy.Enter our Heroine who is persuaded to marry the mad Earl because what she really wants to be is a doctor and because she's a woman no one will let her have real patients.  So she decides to marry one and after he dies she's going to use his money to open her own hospital.  (She may also cut open his brain just to have a peek.)  Because they are all so very certain that the Hero has less than six months to live.  Why?  Because Dr. Kneebones told them so.  Dr. KNEEBONES.Queue seduction scene where dear virginal heroine can't fit her hand around hero's penis.  Does she have baby-sized hands or does he have some form of elephantitis?  The fact that she would have sex with a man she believes is not only crazy but soon to die (he's also saving up his meds in case he decides to kill himself) is perverse and let me tell you they go at it like rabbits.  Crazy, crazy rabbits.So heroine, knocked up with Crazy man's crazy baby, starts scouting out locations for her new hospital and Hero/Mad Earl decides maybe he needs a second opinion from a doctor he's not bedding and one not named Kneebones.  Guess what?  He's not dying after all.  Apparently old Kneebones based his diagnosis on the fact that the hero wore his hair too long and really, really liked sex.  Oh, and he also had nasty headaches.  Turned out to be migranes which were helped by coffee and sex.  How in the heck did this thing get published?