Review: Trying at times
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2011
I downloaded this free book because I have found myself interested in Regency novels lately.  It was difficult to place the exact genre where this book belonged.  It had little to offer in romance, in fact it was quite puzzling how the H/H ended up together at all since there was little interaction that made sense.  The heroine first meets the hero in a park and although he is a complete stranger to her she feels compelled to tell her life story to him.  Once he begins the process of "rescuing" her from the terrible life she had been forced to endure she then feels she can't stand him and begins to be completely defiant of the hero.  She then gets jealous of his relationship between him and her father who is also almost a complete stranger to her when she meets him.  Just a strange H/H relationship.The book didn't really fit into the genre of Regency novels either as it didn't quite stick to the typical formula either, although it did have some of the wording you would expect to see in that type book. Maybe the book should be more accurately called a mystery if anything.  Even though at times the long drawn out thought process of the scatty heroine seemed to drone on for digital pages on end, causing me to literally skip a long sequence in the book, the mystery part of the book was decent at times.I did find myself getting bored a few times while reading and did contemplate just stopping where I was and calling it quits.  I hate to do this so I did endure to the end.  The ending was fair but very predictable.  I think what really bothered me about this book was the first person account.  It would have been better to have it written in the standard third person so that more about the other characters could have been revealed instead of just picturing the characters through the eyes of the oftentimes irritating viewpoint of the heroine.I doubt I will be seeking more works by this author.