Review: Readable Regency
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2012
The writing is smooth and the dialogue flows in this Regency romance, but the language doesn't have the flavor of the time period. Neither would the housekeeper have a patchwork quilt in England in 1798. Any quilts would have been whole coverets, like a chintz quilt, and Newgate Prison was in London, not Bristol.This book also had the most explicit sex, both before and after marriage, I've ever read in a Regency. The first time was in the library on a desk. I think the novel would have been much stronger without this. It detracted rather than enhanced.The storyline was interesting, however, and got better as the story progressed. Josceline tried to find a position as a governess, because her father had become a drunk and was trying to sell her in marriage, for she was the daughter of a duke. Christopher wanted to be accepted by the ton and start a shipping business by procuring investors. When their lives meet, nothing will be the same again.