Review: Don't Waste Your Time!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
*Written By Meghna Sarkar*“She certainly hadn’t expected Aidan, a young man who had slipped into their home quiet as a hawk, brooding and mysterious as any hero from a gothic novel.”The novella starts off with an introduction to the lead pair, the mysterious and brooding Aidan and the flame-haired Mary Ellen who is determined to marry a rich man. And then the story takes a paranormal twist. There are fights-to-the-death, abduction and revelations interspersed with intimate scenes.This novella felt like a cross between Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and the current best-seller Twilight. Incorporating vampires and werewolves into a Regency Romance didn’t sound like a bad idea but the execution is pathetic.The author has a seriously limited vocabulary. How else do I explain the following descriptions:“Too…too serious…too quiet and much, much too much of a no one to pique her feminine interests.”“There will be much too much indulging in things a young lady dare not witness.”“Lord he was much too handsome.”I have read a fair share of stories from both genres – Historical Romance and Paranormal Romance, and these two are my favorite genres but this novella was quite disappointing. I admit I finished the novella hoping against hope that it will improve but it didn’t. It was a phenomenal waste of time and energy. To add to my misery, there were several horrendous typos in the manuscript for example (“divulge” instead of “indulge”).Characters: 1Writing: 1Plot: 2Cover : 2Overall – 2