Review: An Interesting Romance
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
This would have made an interesting contemporary romance. But it was a very sad regency/historical. The writing was somewhat trite at times, but was for the most part not bad. The plot was completely unbelievable. There were no indicators of actual time period, although references were made to Florence Nightingale and the war in Crimea. However, in no time period would it have been acceptable for the heroine of the piece to do what she did. She could not at the same time live in her brother' s abandoned townhouse alone - a bachelor residence - and still be invited to Ton parties which she also attended alone. She could not have traveled from her country residence alone to visit her brother in Town either. She certainly could not have gone about her investigations by herself, much less conduct herself in a ballroom as she had, and still expect to be invited to them. I enjoyed the interaction of the characters and how their romance progressed. I thought the title rather insipid, since it really has nothing to do with the story, and after awhile I ignored all the historical absurdities. The book has promise, the writer has talent, but the story she wanted to write does not fit in the time period she tried to place it in.