Review: Unauthentic, badly written, modern-day vernacular.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2013
While the basic story was well-conceived, (although blatantly obvious from the start), the book's value was decimated by the author's obvious lack of research and egregious errors. It was like reading a story about modern people, eating modern food, using terms like, "Okey", women wearing trousers, and exhibiting an overuse of "eye rolling", etc, all while pretending to be in a time-period they obviously weren't living in. Servants calling the grand mistress of the house by her first name, and daring to criticize her, behind her back, at every given opportunity, only added to the lack of authenticity. It was impossible to immerse yourself in a book that you simply knew none of this would have taken place as it was depicted.I was so completely appalled at the stupidity of these errors that I am requesting a refund for this purchase. Thankfully Amazon is a wonderful company that doesn't make us suffer our mistakes and I know that the $2.99 I paid for this book wont be lost to this garbage.