Review: PG Rated novel
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2014
Scandal's Child is a PG rated romance that has a heroine with some spunk and a kind hearted noble hero. This novel involves a little bit of scandal and a whole lot of incorrect assumptions.Kat has always jumped to her brother Jacko's defense and when she learns he could be in trouble she heads out to an Inn to help her twin.  Also staying at the same Inn is Jules, Count Seville, a kindhearted noble Frenchmen.  Kat is sleeping when Jules accidentally climbs in bed with her and they are discovered instantly causing a scandal.Kat is a somewhat impulsive woman and she is also stubborn.  She does not want to marry Jules but her godmother is insistent as her actions will reflect badly on her sister who is in the marriage mart.  She agrees to a fake engagement and truly intends to cry off a few weeks later.I had mixed feelings about Kat.  She has a twin brother but supposedly they look so much alike that they can pass as each other when she dons men's clothes, yet she is described as angelically beautiful.  And I wondered, does she look like a boy or does her brother look like a girl.  Obviously they cannot be identical so I had trouble picturing her as I read.  Kat also is distrustful and she manages people, especially Jules and her brother who she seems to be getting out of one scrape or another.Jules is a good hero.  From the beginning he is able to see the big picture and recognizes that he and Kat must marry in order to avert scandal.  He has good intentions yet misses so many cues from the heroine that I was frustrated with his inability to see past his own actions.There is a villain thrown into the mix to show how resourceful the heroine is and how inept other characters are when dealing with evil people.  Overall this novel didn't have any huge problems in the plot yet it tended to meander and the characters didn't really dazzle.