Review: I was disappointed!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2011
After reading that rave review, I was expecting something special; I'm sorry to say that I did not get it. The editing was not good especially the spacing errors which I found to be both distracting and annoying. The characterizations were not well done; the only one who seemed like a real person was James, the butler. This book is supposed to be able to be read on its own but I had a very difficult time following the plot and the sequence in which the plot was told was quite confusing. I also didn't find the dialogue particularly good. In fact, there was actually very little dialogue in the story.  I think that this could have been a sweet addition to the main series after you knew the characters but it is not a prequel or a stand-alone book and I can not recommend it as such.