Review: average romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2014
Setting: England, 1815Genre: Standard regencyThe plot was interesting, but execution not so much. It was interesting enough that I finished, but not without skipping some. The characters were likable, but a bit stereotypical. We have the reclusive scarred hero, Marcus, the Earl of Sinclair, and the heroine, Miss Emma Green,who loves him despite his attitude and faults.There are 3 things that kept me from giving this book a higher rating.1) The book seems to be written at a 3rd or 4th grade level. The vocabulary is simplistic, and there are many short sentences could have been joined to make them more complex and adult. The subject matter is adult and the writing should reflect that.2) The style is like a paper written for a high school English class. There are many, many scenes which neither fleshed out the characters nor moved the plot forward and should have been deleted. That high school teacher would have a red pencil all over it. Needless to say, but I skimmed quite a few of the extraneous material.3) The book opens with a somewhat violent scene of attempted rape. This may not bother some, but there are those of us who can't abide forcible sex in either books or visual media. I almost put it away unread.