Review: Decent but sloppy
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2014
This author thinks up some nice stories. it is too bad that she doesn't have a better grip of grammar and historical accuracy. In one case, she used "their" instead of "there". She has her early 19th century characters acting in 20th or 21st century ways. Gentlemen did not knock women over at balls, nor may a young woman abandon her partner on the dance floor, or have their coiffures dismantled, either by accident or on purpose, without causing a scandal. What truly annoyed me was her inability to grasp the use of titles, styles, and formal address. All that needs is a little study which in these times may be done on the internet in one's jammies for heaven's sake! That speaks of laziness. The way the story unwind so rapidly tells me that she was more interested in getting it down than in telling a good tale. And the absolute lack of editing says that the publisher was more interested in getting the book out for sale than in publishing a good book. I give her a C+ and that's just for the good story. With a little more knowledge and an interested editor, she could be writing really good books. Pity. :(