Review: I should have skipped this one
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
I got through about a third of the book, I started to suspect it wasn't going to be "my kind" of historical romance. Unfortunately, it turned out, I was right: very little historical detail was taken into account when crafting the plot, dialogue, and characters. Their behavior was either anachronistic - the duchess criticized her son, the duke, within earshot of all her guests at her exclusive luncheon in an unseemly display of emotion for her rank - or outright ludicrous - the heroine intentionally antagonized the duke at the same luncheon, flaunting her disregard for British etiquette while she was supposed to be seeking his help to repair the reputation of her father's business.I could have swallowed occasional stretches in credibility, possibly, had the story captured my interest to keep me from picking at the details, but the pacing of the narrative was so slow, I had nothing else with which to occupy myself. After the first encounter between the protagonists, what followed was a string of disjointed scenes, in which characters moved from one soiree to the next, conversing while nothing happened. So, when the financial fraud was thrown in to demonstrate the heroine's mathematical genius, I was already too disenchanted with her to care.