Review: Fun Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 9, 2012
Emma Grey meets Richard, the Earl of Hamilton and they become engaged. When her uncle, the Duke of Arden, decides they need to wait a year to be married and Emma defends his decision, the earl wagers that he can fool her uncle by being hired and working for a month as the duke's head gardener, thus proving that he's more intelligent than the duke. He reasons that he'll at least be able to see Emma and even if he doesn't win the wager, he can then compromise her and the duke will have to allow them to marry sooner. Even though Emma feels his plan is doomed to failure, she allows him to convince her to play along. What follows is a humorous farce where no one is fooling anyone, but Emma and Richard are getting to know each other much better. When the duke invites Lord Hamilton for a visit, Richard brings in his friend, Lord William Raikes, to help by impersonating him. After Lord Raikes and Emma's cousin Catherine meet and sparks fly, the situation get even more complicated. Then things take a sinister turn when they realize the duke's sister is not the sweet chaperone they thought she was and they try to find evidence to bring to the duke. On the whole it was a great story and I quite enjoyed it, even though there were a few confusing phrases and some odd word usage that a bit more editing might have caught.