Review: Almost, but not quite
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 28, 2013
This is a difficult book for me to review.  I just finished it and came to Amazon to see about the next book in the series, which to me says a lot about how much I liked this story.  That said, it's very clear to me as a reader that this is a new author and not an established one.If you're a big fan of Regency romances, you probably won't care much for this book.  Good Regency authors are researchers as well, giving the reader a strong sense of the time period.  This book failed repeatedly to give me any indication of the Regency era.  It failed in the choice of language used in the dialogue, it failed in the actions of the characters and it failed in the setting (with a few exceptions, like mention of Gunter's ices but even that had no description or elaboration).There was a distinct lack of development of secondary characters, to the extent that some were more caricatures than characters.  I got no real feel for Brianna's family, just surface annoyance with her mother.  I do look forward to reading about Greyson and Abigail in the upcoming His Perfect Game.This book reminds me a little of what it's like when I go back now and re-read earlier works by many of  my now favorite Historical Romance authors - I think the author shows promise and hope future books will prove me correct about that.