Review: BEWARE of this writer...her books are ADDICTIVE and you will want  more!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2013
I enjoy reading D.L. Carter's books  because they are never ever mundane or boring, nor are they "formula" books with events happening at a certtain number of pages in the book. I usually can figure out a plot early on but D.L.'s have twists and turns that keep you wondering and guessing yet always tie the story together.  I have read and enjoyed 3 of her books so far and my only complaint is that the  "rest of the story" is not alrady written  and ready for me to read RIGHT NOW. She needs to clone herself so one (or 2?)  of them can do nothing but write for us!  I believe that in the future people will be buying sets of her books so that they have all the stories on all the characters to read and reread over and over.  It's interesting to me that She puts so much depth into her characters that  you want to know what happens next to the villians as well as the heros and heroines.Crimes of the Brothers made me happy about several things: 1) that i was not born into the  time period when girl children were commodities to be barted for wealth and power or else totally disregarded unless they could be used as brood mares, or unpaid servants.  2) that even though I have a brother he is not the sort of selfish oaf Catherine's brother is. 3) Situations are resolved to the benefit of several people rather than just the hero and heroine.  I like it when good things happen to good people!I enjoy the way that  Ms. Carter expands the setting of her stories so that the reader gets a broad view of the factors which cause the characters to have evolved into who the are,  Catherine, for example, initially is such a dutiful daughter and spineless crearure that you just want to shake her.  (She improves greatly so just keep reading.) Sir  Phillip is a very worthy hero, not at all priggish and actually rather wise though he doesn't flaunt his good points ,he just does what he believes needs to be done to bring things right and fair, all that you would expect of a true and proper gentleman.I can hardly wait for the next installment of this saga because there are a couple of characters I really want to see put through the fire, killing them off or allowing them to fade quitely into obilivion  is not going to satisfy my need for revenge and these people are dispicable!  But then maybe it's circumstances that made then that way.......or maybe not?  Only time and the sequel will tell!