Review: Really short, but it's nicely written and free, so why complain?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2014
I got started reading this on my exercise bike only to find myself at the end of the story even before the end of the first five miles on the bike.  It's a pleasant read, since Sherry Thomas is an excellent romance writer, but it's super short and is only 50% of the download, the rest being excerpts from other books of hers.Why is it 0.5 of the Fitzhugh trilogy?  (The trilogy beingBeguiling the Beauty (Berkley Sensation),Ravishing the Heiress (Berkley Sensation), andTempting the Bride)  Well, remember the Duke of Lexington of BEGUILING THE BEAUTY, the duke of a scientific bent who is obsessed with Venetia Easterbrook, nee Fitzhugh?  He's just a boy in this one.  The love story here revolves around his stepmother and a James Kingston, a visitor to the Lexington estate at the beginning of the story, when the rather unpleasant Duke of Lexington, her husband, is still alive.James and she are attracted to one another but nothing can come of it.  But this is romance so there will be an HEA and it comes soon enough, what with only 45 pages to the story.  So I gave this 4 stars because it's free and enjoyable, but it is, naturally, a bit underdeveloped. BTW, I wish authors such as Eloisa James would follow the example of Thomas, Courtney Milan and Deanna Raybourn, who usually give these little shorts to their readers instead of charging.