Review: Two and a half stars
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
Although this story could have been written in half the number of its actual words (which would have been so much better, as I felt it lagged unnecessarily and it constantly made me skip pages), nothing in it was fleshed out. The storyline was simplistic and predictable, the characters were underdeveloped, the writing unpolished and filled with typos, grammatical and factual mistakes. Parts of the story just didn't make sense, perhaps because they weren't properly described, and the book didn't provide any sense of mystery as I kept reading. The dialogues, while striving to keep up with the regency era, were overly wordy at times, in contrast with some that were too modern, out of place. No balance struck there. The introduction of the aunt and her daughter was really clumsy and contrived. Not a bad idea, but badly executed.All in all, not a bad novel, but entirely unpolished and weakly written. Two and a half stars.