Review: Short, cute story with an over-the-top ending
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2013
I liked the H/h in this story, they are both really good people.  This story is shorter than most novels, hence the need to get to the point quickly.  It does that.  The ending could have gone one of two ways as I saw it, and the author chose the over-the-top version, which to me seemed a little hard to believe, but hey, it's a novella, not a non-fiction book.I am not sure what year the story is set in, but the American word "okay" is used, which was invented during Andrew Jackson's presidency.  If this is a Victorian Era novella, then perhaps the word had crossed over the pond by then, but during the Regency Period, it could not have been used because it had yet to be invented.The story touched on the often ignored topic of London's poor, and the contrast between the wealth of the Quality versus the extreme poverty found in London's slums.Since this is a novella, less description is used to tell the story and explain the character's motivations.  I found one villain to be confusing.  She struck me as being rather stupid, yet she was able to execute a brilliant scheme of revenge against the h.  I didn't really see that coming.  Was that the author's attempt to show us that we really hadn't given the villain enough credit for having a brain, or was this an example of lack of character development due to the short length of the story?Clean, fun, and uplifting (for the most part) story with a HEA ending.