Review: UNREADABLE
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2014
Miss Emma Harlow is desperate to end her sister, Lavinia's, attachment to Sir Waldo Windbourne.  Emma has a plan: Find a rake to attract Lavinia's attentions away from Windbourne.  Toward that end, she approaches the Duke of Trent.The heroine in this book would be diagnosed with a mental illness if such a person existed.  In Regency times, Emma would certainly be locked up.  Emma's good judgment and common sense are non-existent.  Any woman who approached men in contemporary times, the Regency era, or any time, as Emma did in this book, would certainly be in grave danger of being harmed.  I find this kind of stupidity to be totally unreadable.  The whole premise of this book is completely unbelievable and unrealistic.  It makes one wonder if this author had any knowledge about the Regency Period.The plot is ridiculous, not funny.  No Duke would get embroiled in such an idiotic scheme if he was above 10 years old.  This book would not even be a good fairytale, despite its juvenile approach.  Here we have one more author who tries to write in the Regency Era, while ignoring everything that makes up the fabric, social mores, and manners of said era.  There ought to be a rule that these authors have to label their books "fake Regency", so us readers do not have to waste our money and precious reading time on these pretenders.  Actually, there is no genre, in which I would enjoy this plot or this heroine.