Review: Very enjoyable book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2011
This is a nice historical novel set in London sometime not too terribly long after the end of the Napoleonic wars (I think), which would put it maybe 1830s(?). It's got everything you expect from a Regency romance: debutantes, rakes, society matrons, men of character without peerage, men of peerage without character. You know the type. ;-DOne thing in particular I enjoyed about this novel was a decided lack of the 'misunderstanding that goes on for 100+ pages and endangers the TRUE LOVE of the hero and heroine.' It wasn't missed. It was kind of annoying that the aforementioned hero & heroine were falling in love so quickly but hey, it's the way it was in those times. So I can let that go.The conflict in this novel mostly centers around a disastrous first marriage for the erstwhile hero, and the legacy of scandal that remains from that ill-fated union. Want to know more? Spend the huge sum of $0.00 and find out (LOL).Overall I enjoyed this book. Not too much sex and nothing truly explicit. Relationships were (mostly) defined within the bounds of marriage. Things that are bad were generally perceived as bad (i.e., getting an innocent with child and abandoning her, resulting in her death; ill-treatment of a daughter by whipping and leaving scars), while things that were needful were described as such, i.e, the necessity of protecting a person with a 'child-like' mind, etc.I haven't read any of the other books as I have a financial disinclination to actually pay for any Kindle titles. Okay, so that is not entirely true - I have actually purchased perhaps 10 of my 1,500+ books... Still, I do recommend this title for anyone over 13 or so.