Review: Lots of Good Creative Ideas; Needs an Editor
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2012
This novel was 3/4 romantic farce (the author has the characters themselves describe their situation as "absurd", "ridiculous", a "farce" so I'm not just imagining things).And a delightful farce it was, too, with all the stock characters you'd expect, delightfully bumping into each other, running around in disguise, fooling nobody but themselves. I was reminded at times of some scenes in Shakespeare's plays.With a bad apple or two, to spice things up, as we learn in the last 1/4 of the novel, when things become much darker and a murder (finally!) is committed, not to mention other illegal activities.The author is inventive and creative and I hope to see more of her work in the future. However, she needs an editor to polish her work. The first chapter was a disaster and I nearly stopped reading, but I had promised to read it and write a review.I'm glad I did, because the rest of the book was better, though there were still distracting errors, in sentence structure, word choice, grammar. The denouement, as revealed by the Duke, went on and on. A true fan will read a book in spite of the errors, but to reach a wider audience the author needs to revise and refine.I'm definitely looking forward to the next bit of fun and mayhem.