Review: Writing really put me off
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2013
In the first chapter of Degrees of Hope, Miss Hope takes a fall from her horse. After Miss Hope's scrapes have been tended, Lady Beaumont, Hope's mother, says to Hope (and in the presence of the housekeeper, Mrs. Lassiter), "Now stay off that damn horse until it's healed, all right?"  Really?  This book mixes contemporary and period actions and language, and the resulting inconsistency makes the writing very hard to read. Overall, the writing in Degrees of Hope is pretty contemporary, yet there is ubiquitous use of the word "whilst", which feels incredibly out of place not to mention annoying. This ruined the book for me.