Review: Poor criminals from the slums 200 years ago do not ...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2014
I not only couldn't finish this book, I couldn't get past the first chapter.  To begin with, simply placing a story a century or two ago does not make it historical. I realize that writers lately have gotten romantic about the "rookeries," "St. Giles," and the heroic poor man/woman but if they are going to write it they should know what they are writing about.  Romance fiction is just that - fiction.  That does not mean it can be absurd and ridiculous.  Poor criminals from the slums 200 years ago do not talk like the aristocracy nor do they talk like the 21st century middle class.  The heroine is a blithering idiot. Anyone who approaches being kidnapped as a wonderful adventure isn't simply naive - she's dense.  I don't know if either improves over the course of the book but I didn't care to find out.