Review: Athena's Ordeal
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2013
I was very disappointed in this book as I enjoyed book one of the Haberdashers. Sabrina Bittlesworth, known as Sabre, is insulted by Quincy Telford, Duke of Beloin, when he assumes her to be a trollop and offers her money. Sabre challenges him to a duel and has her best friend, Jacqueline, as her second. Quincy shows up for the duel, thinking that it is Sabre's brother who is there to defend his sister's honor. When he discovers it's Sabre he initially refuses to duel. But when she pulls her sword, he defends himself. To shorten the whole story, Sabre is impressed with his skill and leaves the duel telling her friend that she plans to marry the Duke. The Duke comes off as a wimp and Sabre as a pushy woman who moves herself into the Duke's home and works at ingratiating herself into his affections. There is also blackmail of the Duke at foot and several chapters alluding to a mysterious group of four evil men and their supposed identities, which was much too long, unclear and very dry reading. I won't be bothering to purchase book three.