Review: Reader Beware
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
This book has everything to recommend it to anyone seeking a good book.  There is a young woman, trained by her father to be a doctor, in Regency England.  She is brave, brilliant, kind, and has a good head on her shoulders.  Her father dies, bequeathing her his title, and she attempts to enter English society.  She meets a man who is attracted to her plain, no-nonsense approach to life.  They begin to see each other.  Good so far.  So, you as a reader are about 25% in, and the Hero and heroine are a bit intimate, but, it's fast, no big deal, skip on.  The story starts getting awesomely good:  there are spies, lies, murder, and tea in the afternoon and you, dear reader, are Hooked.  Then, you're 70% into the story and WHAMMO - there's a whole Very descriptive sex scene (this part goes here, that part goes there, etc.)  Skip five pages, and it's never mentioned again, the story continues in its exciting way and the book is over and it is great.  How to rate that?  It's like eating a delicious chocolate cookie, and learning that 10% of the chocolate chips are rat feces.  In other (paper) books I've read, I'd just "redact" the parts I found offensive and move on.  Unfortunately, I read this on my Kindle and that's not an option.  It's going back.  Bummer.