Review: Anyone can see how this story ends
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
Had there been just a bit more danger, illicit lust, overwhelming anger...or maybe if the horrible Horace had been more horrid...then this book would get more stars.  As it was, the tension that usually builds in a romance of this type NEVER appeared.  The hero tends mildly to his grandmother, who obviously adores him.  To me, there was never any question that he could bring home any remotely acceptable female and she would be delighted.  As a villainess, Elizabeth disappoints.  She is, at worst, unpleasant.  Charlotte is likewise undeveloped.Nonetheless, I will doubtlessly re-read the book.  It has some lovely moments - the dog, Oscar - provides comic relief of a sort.  The Princess Anna character, while (again) under-developed, is darling.  I would expect a spin-off book in which she finds love.  And one for Ashland.  Hopefully there, all the characters can grow in depth, and overcome more intense dangers.All that aside, this book is good for an escape for a person who could handle very limited sex in a book (a single scene, although very explicit, is very "standard sex").