Review: Didn't Like It
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2011
This story moves so quickly you hardly have time to wrap your head around time and place before they are moving on.  The author lavishly describes clothing ensembles and hair color and skips right over character development.  The result is that you have no idea why the characters do what they do.  The heroine isn't likable, except that she is kind to her maid; she's shallowly drawn and as scheming as her future husband.  Her fiance is a complete rake and a court favorite of the queen, he pursues the heroine like a fine horse he's desperate to possess.  He calls her a wench or a bitch a half-dozen times, but at the end claims to have loved her the minute he laid eyes on her.  There's absolutely no spark between either of them; the romance is supremely dull.  The author spares about two sentences for Tyrone's Rebellion, a 9 year war, who's only purpose is the wounding of our hero and making him sympathetic to the heroine after which they finally fall in love.  Yawn... er, I mean, aww[...]  To call this historical is ridiculous.