Review: Too bad to finish
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2014
This was a total waste of money.  WHere do I begin to list my reasons?I'll start with the hero's affliction - one leg being shorter than the other by an inch does NOT warrant a cane, does not cause one to walk slower than others, and does not produce any significant limp.  Many people have this 'affliction', and with the difference being an inch, most of them don't even bother with built up shoes.However, I could have lived with the author taking creative liberties with this fact if the story had been written at all well.  Which it was not.  The characterization left much to be desired.  The H was a nonentity.  In the writing, he was left regretably lacking in all respects.  The H's former ward, Christopher, was supremely irritating and crass in the extreme.  Given that he's a maried man in this book, I was constantly wondering just how old the H was.  If the age was given anywhere in the story, I missed it - no doubt because I was too glassy eyed to notice that detail.The h was someone I would never want to be, and would get on my knees each night and pray that my daughter would never be.But the writing was the biggest problem with this story.  Take scenes between the H and his irritating, crass, loud-mouthed former ward.  They could go on for pages, and all the dialogue tags were 'he said'.  He.  Time after time after time, with rarely any clue as to which 'he' was doing the talking.Then there was the complete lack of awareness of the social mores of the period.There was nothing - and I mean absolutely nothing about this book that I could say anything positive about.  And that, to me as a reader, is truly sad.My only recommendation about this one is give it a miss.