Review: Boring and Insignificant
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2013
I am a huge fan of Mary Balogh.  She is probably my favorite romance author and I think I have read just about everything she has written in the last 20 years.  This short story looks like a couple of chapters (correctly) edited out of the first draft of "The Arrangement."  It is clearly intended to be a tease for that book which is not yet released.  My advice to Ms. Balogh: Don't ever let your publisher do this to you again. One of Balogh's real strengths is her complex characters and their development over the course of a story.  The characters in this story were about as deep as a sheet of paper and about as interesting as grass growing.  I don't believe her strengths as an author are well served by the short story format.