Review: Not Regency, not readable
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2013
This is just horrendous. The author has clearly done little or no research on the Regency period, or she would not have posited a Marie-Antoinette-style towering hairdo as the very latest mode 30 years after its time. Worse, she makes glancing reference to an actual hairdo that included a ship model under full sail, then decided that it was entirely possible that a socially ambitious young debutante would have attempted to go it one better by incorporating a full teapot that splashes tea around wildly. Weight alone would preclude such a folly. Even more idiotic is the nasty slapstick that involves the hero's chair toppling over backwards, leaving him with his legs in the air. Now the laws of textile physics are brazenly breached as the author claims that this mishap has torn asunder the crotch of the hero's pantaloons AND his small-clothes as well. He discovers this as a breeze cools his "crown jewels" (I believe the usual term is "family jewels"). The hero is so appalled that he feigns a swoon (really!) in order to close his legs. He is then carried from the dining room by menservants, lest the ladies see too much. I'd seen too much, that's for sure. A wretched effort.