Review: enjoyable with a colossal leap to the end
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 22, 2012
I don't know how to rate this one because I was really enjoying it then it suddenly ended. Yes, this truly is a novella, one of the really short ones. One of those that ends abruptly. But I will say that when Harper puts Lucy and Rand together sparks fly. They are very likable as a couple.I struggled to like Lucy at the beginning. I found her to be malicious in her spying on people in order to later write about them in her column. Not once did she think about the consequences of her gossip. And, yes, her mother is unlikable, but she writes about her in the papers as well. Even at the end of the novel, she still wishes to continue spying on people and she doesn't even need the money any more.With Lady Libertine no longer the focus, Lucy becomes a delightful character. She and Rand have a natural chemistry. But just like that it is over. You come to end of the chapter and there's an epilogue. Just like that. It was simply not well done. In two sentences Harper tells us what happened to the other characters. Yes, this is a novella, but I've read longer and better resolved ones. There was no need for that colossal leap to the end.I'm especially disappointed because Harper was doing such a fine job engaging me in the story, never mind that at the beginning she couldn't remember if Rand was a duke or an earl. I was enjoying the novella when it simply ended at it's highest point. Harper's writing is good, but she could have done a better job at the end. If you buy this novella, you'll enjoy the reading until you're jolted at the end.