Review: Schizophrenic
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2014
This book had a good idea, it just never got off the ground. The entire thing is one big schizophrenic mess. The heroine is a walking contradiction. She knows nothing about the Ton, her first Season cut short by a disappointment in love, but she feels it necessary to chaperone her two younger cousins through their first Season to protect them from scheming males. A clear case of the blind leading the blind. I suppose it was meant as comedy but I found it irritating and frustrating. The book is long, the plot jumps around so much it barely makes sense, and none of the characters know their own personalities. The heroine speaks in mind voice so much that even she forgets to talk out loud; true story, it happens several times during scenes with the hero. The emotions and reactions were outlandish, there were very few historical details, and I have absolutely no idea what the author will find to write about the other two girls because she not only gave Pru a love interest in this book, but she also used every single romance trope out there. Several plot devices were used and discarded to remain loose ends. I doubt they will be used in other books because they dealt specifically with the main pair of this one. In general, the book was a bit of a train wreck, but it started in a good place, it just needed edited.