Review: Inaccurate Blurb
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2012
As other reviewers have noted, the blurb for this novella is completely wrong. This is a post Regency late 1800's book that does not begin with the heroine's deceit. The short begins with the heroine, abandoned and desperate, being mistaken for a con artist and kidnapped. While the lead of the book eventually grew on me it took me far longer to get past his actions than it did the heroine. I never understood why he made the leap that a woman looking for the person impersonating him must be either a partner to or a deceiver of that person. It never crosses his mind that she, like every one of the men he's speaking with, could have been deceived by someone impersonating him. Once that unfortunate beginning is finally pushed to the side, the short is a lovely story. I never quite warmed to Amanda. She had serious self esteem issues and a confusing sense of self preservation. I fully believed she'd go from frying pans to fires without a second thought, so in that sense her actions worked for me. For his part Ripton (kidnapping aside) was interesting and worked as a man shut down internally. Definitely worth the cost but not my favorite Duran. The novella improves the longer it goes on so if you like the sample go ahead and purchase this one.