Review: Not Quite as Good
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 29, 2012
I read all of the books in this series and I adore the family very much. I couldn't wait to read this one as well. Honestly, it was a good book, but I just didn't feel it was as strong as the others. The supernatural aspect feels out of place in the series and honestly feels like a badly written plot device without much of it adding to the actual point of the story, which is Lady Elizabeth and Michael falling in love while staying away from society. Ms. Knight-Catania had the elements set in place for a sweetly romantic love story where Lady Elizabeth tries to get over her feelings of loneliness and forced separation from her family while also dealing with her anger and betrayal with the twins' deception and eventually finding it within herself to forgive the cruel trick they had played on her. But the supernatural aspect forced everything else that would have made the story great to the side as she tries to battle with a ghost that no one else really believes exists, which might have  been a great plot device if the authoress had focused more on how Michael didn't believe her and then eventually saw that it mattered to Elizabeth greatly, whether he believed her or not. I feel they only barely scraped this plot and then the book ended on such an abrupt note. I felt certain for days that somehow the download was incomplete and I kept downloading and re-downloading the book in an attempt to get the missing pages I was sure had to be there. I've finally accepted that it really does end so abruptly, which no real satisfying conclusion to the only plot device they gave any credence to. It's just not the same book as the others and the most disappointing in the series, although still worth a read if you can be satisfied with the ending.