Review: A little stretch...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 7, 2013
...but an charming story, overall. Misinterpretations of inner feelings of course abound, but even that seems somewhat believable, considering the wounded natures of both protagonists. I especially liked the fact that the heroine was a scientist and an intellectual, perhaps even a proto-feminist. Mary Wollenstonecraft had already published her Vindication by the period of the Regency, so it wasn't as if her independence is exactly revolutionary, but it makes a cheerful change from the run of the mill.It's badly-edited*, though, and I've noticed the same failures in several titles from this press, so I presume that they don't actually bring much to the table in terms of making their authors shine. The chapter formatting is much of a bland muchness across several titles as well, so I reckon there's not much offered in the way of book design either. Even chapter titles are rendered in the body font, as if the whole thing had been typed on an IBM Selectric with only one type ball.* They even mistake principal for principle, and you're for your, not to mention a few dozens of solecisms and random errors in wording or register that any competent editor should have caught.