Review: Short and Cute
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 10, 2013
This book didn't make a huge impression on me, but it wasn't bad either.  There wasn't a whole lot of conflict going on, or at least it wasn't very described.  I got the impression that things between Isabel and her family, especially her mother, were pretty wretched but the book never went into detail about it really - although I THINK at one point her mother actually beat her.  But I'm not sure.Unlike most blue-stocking heroines she didn't have big plans to get away though, she didn't whine about it either, she just kinda went along with it.  Not exactly inspiring.If it wasn't for the banter between her and Mr. Lockwood - who was rather hilarious in his enjoyment of baiting her - then the book would have completely fallen flat.  Their interactions were definitely the best part of the book, as it should have been, although the switch from annoying each other to being romantic was a little abrupt.  Overall, I think the story would have been better if it had been longer and better fleshed out, but for a 99 cent novella it was  a quick and fairly enjoyable read.