Review: too short
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2013
One has to feel mildly disappointed at Lady Jennings:she creates all those intriguing plots with potentially great characters but she keeps her stories far, far too short to allow the narrative and the characters adequate room to develop.This is true for this story as well but this time it is particularly damaging. Sebastian, Carl, Octavia and Evans are potentially delightful watercolours but they all would have needed many more pages to achieve completion. Their story is nearly devoid of events and with so little character development they end by being rather colourless.Writing is also a little rougher than it should and our author still has not got the knack for the correct way to address British gentility -quite a major issue in victorian romances-.