Review: These Lovers Find the "Pearl" of Great Price.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
Alasdair Sharpe, rake of the first order, awakens to find a very appealing thief in his bedroom.  Julianna Harte, is the daughter of a former thief, who has just married a Baroness, and she has a problem.  Julianne spent her whole childhood helping her father take what was not his and use his attractiveness with women to pay the rent.  This is used to explain why. when Julianna is facing the eviction of her foundling home from its house, because she cannot pay the rent, that stealing is her choice.  This is how she finds herself standing at the window in black boy's attire in Alasdair's bedroom facing a gun.Ms. Kane is definitely a very good writer.  She handles dialogue extremely well.  Her love scenes are smoking hot.  The plot, as a whole, has all the right elements, love, romance, danger, mystery, good characterization.  However, for me, the  beginning certainly grabbed one's attention, and the end was certainly exciting, but the middle just lagged to the point that I almost gave up on the book, and almost did not get to the exciting ending.And this is just personal preference, but I found the H and the h very unappealing.  Neither party exhibited even the barest common sense or morals until way, way into the story.  Both main characters were self-centered to the extreme.  I prefer my heroes and heroines to at least have some sense of honor.  I found the whole premise of this book distasteful. The writer is definitely talented and every writer has the right to choose one's story.  I am merely saying that it was not the subject matter I found to be interesting.  Fortunately, for me, most Regency Romances are all about honorable characters and plots that push toward the good in people.  That is my idea of good entertainment. That is why I choose that genre.  It was a surprise to me that this Regency book was so devoid of the finer qualities of humanity.  This is my first book authored by Kane.  Don't know, at this point, whether I will try another.