Review: Dismal, Depressing, and Absolutely Creepy
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2014
Lavinia Spencer discovers that her younger brother has stolen and lost her savings.  She has taken over the family business, because her father is ill.  The lending library she manages only supports the most meager existence.  The theft means no Christmas niceties at all. One of her customers, William Q. White, was in the library when he accidentally overhears the conversation between Lavinia and her brother.  This prompts William to take advantage of the situation.I was so disappointed in this book.  I was excited to find a new author.  I never dreamed that I would be taken down a path of extreme desperation and poverty, plus have to contend with a very dishonorable "hero".  The actions of the hero were absolutely creepy.  The fact that Lavinia decided to love him anyway, despite only seeing him a few times in her library, where he refused to speak to her, did not make this plot line any more palatable to me.  Courtney Milan can write.  I just don't like this "everything is dismal and depressing, so rape and blackmail is okay" storyline, which is wrapped up in one afternoon into wealth and power.  Huh?  I could have lived much better without this story in my head.