Review: Where are the Punctuation Police when you need them?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
Actually, I didn't give this book 2 stars because of all the misplaced and missing commas or the multitude of ellipsis marks.  Nor for the use of "I" instead of "me" as an object.  Not even because the author says things like "deducted" when she meant "deduced".Nope, this story gets 2 stars on its merits as a story.  It's pedestrian, repetitive, rather silly and not very historical.  The characters are not well drawn and most seem to have been taken from my local high school, dressed up in period costume, and sent off into this story to do whatever it is they're doing here.There's a hero who I assume was a bit of a jerk in a previous Conn book and now will be given the chance to redeem himself in this one.  He almost blows that chance, but in his defense I must say he may be the best character in the book.  (But that's not saying a whole lot. Remember the rest of them came from my local high school.  He's at least a graduate.)The heroine is a young, beautiful, innocent but adventurous (kinda) young woman and her best friend is ditto all this plus being a women's rights advocate (somewhat).  There's also a rather useless brother of the heroine, who is trying to keep their estate from financial ruin and going about it all the wrong way.  Plus a bunch of suitors for the lovely girls.  Suitors who, BTW, seem to fall in and out of "love" with one or another woman just whimsically, making all final declarations of love much less convincing.We also have some bad guys doing bad stuff, with an attempt by the author to do authentic period lower-class speech for them.  Their nefarious doings plus all the romantic mix-ups are the gist of the whole story.This may be worth the price I paid ($0.00) but I regret the time I spent reading it.  I went through it AQAP (as quickly as possible) and so must have missed the reason why the heroine has the name "Star".  Did she wander into this Regency story from the Western she was supposed to be in?