Review: DISAPPOINTED
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2014
Jane Grey, the Dowager Duchess of Sutton, thought she had finally escaped her hellish marriage to the Duke of Sutton, who had been four times her age.  But, even in death, the old Duke had engineered another type of hell.  The will had left the Duke's fortune to her, but the Duke's son was having none of this.  He was trying to overturn the will in court.  He was also threatening and harassing Jane.  To escape all the trouble for awhile, Jane went to London to stay with a friend.  While there she ran into a childhood friend, Lord Robert Marlow, the Eleventh Earl of Barrington.  Robert and Jane have an unresolved history that the couple finds themselves exploring.One of the first descriptions I encounter about Robert is the following quote:"He did not do young and he did not do innocent."This book is described as historical romance.  So, what is contemporary, slang style doing in this book?  The plot of this book is very thin, and unevenly spaced throughout.  I would advise reading the first few pages of this book, then skipping to the midway point and beginning, again.  Unless, of course, one just wants to read about the historical romance requisite couple of outings in Hyde Park, and the descriptions about balls, without any references that would move this plot along.Both the H and the h have secrets, but until the midpoint of this book the author fails to provide the reader with any clues to keep the reader interested.  Finally, after half the book is gone, when one has asked oneself, numerous times why one keeps slogging through, the author sees fit to begin her story.  Jane Lark proved in the prequel to this book, "The Illicit Love of a Courtesan", that she has talent.  I looked so forward to Robert's story, but I had to read through at least 150 pages to finally get to his story.  This book is a novella described as a novel.  I so hope Lark finds her mojo, again, before her next book.