Review: Needs Better Research
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
I’ve tried to be a cheerleader for this author but it is getting harder and harder.  This was a reasonably well-written novella. I do quibble, however, with her duplicating the characteristics of the sisters in this story (Isabella, Audrey, and Millie) to the sisters (Cressida, Deborah, and Daisy) in HIS GRACE REGRETS.  They are practically identical.Again it is the historical errors. Kirkwood would have not have had a prayer of entering Almack’s even on a guest ticket (and who would have sponsored him as he had not given his brother any warning). The patronesses would have given him the boot for being ‘bad ton’.  I also was irritated to see Kirkwood referred to as a bastard/illegitimate.  His mother was married at his birth to another which made him the legal offspring of that husband.  A cuckoo, maybe, but not a bastard.  English nobility was littered with such cuckoos who were, tacitly or not, accepted by the legal husband.  Look up Lady Oxford and the Harleian Miscellany.Finally, I cannot understand why this author keeps getting the titles wrong in her works.  She is not Lady Fielding, the daughter of a duke.  She is Lady Barbara Fielding.  Just as the late Princess of Wales was the former Lady Diana Spencer, not Lady Spencer.  At the time the only Lady Spencer was Raine, Lady Spencer.I know some will consider that I am nit-picking on this point but it is indicative of laxity on the author’s part to take seriously the era she has chosen to recreate.  I thought this author had the potential to attract the attention of a publisher such as Avon, Dell, Mills and Boon, etc., but she will need to bring her ‘A’ game in the future and sweat the details.Remember, Google is your friend and there are plenty of Regency authors who have well researched blogs on the era.