Review: Fun, quick, easy story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 17, 2012
I really liked MUCH ADO ABOUT MARSHALS so I had high hopes for MUCH ADO ABOUT MADAMS and I'm happy to say that I was not disappointed at all. This book was a fun romp of a read.There was a charming heroine, Lucina, who is very determined and strong-willed in addition to being beautiful and tender-hearted. Also, there was the practically perfect hero, Reese, who was kind and caring as well as handsome and strong-minded. (I fell a little in love with him myself.) Not to mention really great, well-developed secondary characters consisting of three powerful men hired by Reese to help take care of the seven "soiled doves" (whores) that Reese found himself saddled with.Lucinda and Reese and all the other characters had complex, well-defined personalities and I loved seeing the terrific interactions between everyone. The dialogues were mostly authentic to the time period. (The word "duster" means a lady's short coat popular during the 1920's and was used on several occasions to mean a man's coat.) Unfortunately, there were quite a few editing mistakes (like "looked" for "locked" and "of" for "off" just to name two examples) which sometimes interrupted the flow of the story and is the main reason that I took off a star. However, the dialogues were a lot of fun to read and the imagery was really first-rate so I really cared what happened to the characters.I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book; it really held my interest through the entire book. I definitely recommend it to anyone who likes their historical romances to also be amusing and entertaining.