Review: Lady Star
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2014
Star Berkley tries to help her brother, Vern, when she discovers he has gotten mixed up with some unsavory characters. Being too ill to meet his cohorts with promised information, Star dresses as her brother and goes to the inn with the information. At the inn she runs into Sir Edward Danton and he discovers that she is a female underneath the disguise. Edward and his friend, Jules, meet at the inn also and Star panicks when she sees Jules because she knows him and fears that he will recognize her. Jules believes himself in love with Star and raves about her beauty to Edward; when they meet her the next day Edward is not impressed with her appearance but when they arrive at Berkley Grange and Edward meets a cleaned up Star he begins to see what his friend sees in her. The book proceeds in this vein; Jules and his devotion to Star; Star's increasing desire for Edward and his for her. Then Star's friend, Georgina, appears and the reader discovers her infatuation for Jules ; enter Miles, a close friend of Verns, who makes his appearance and we note his infatuation for Star. The book has some humor at this part, with all the characters and their intertwined infatuations. It seems Edward is the only one who has all the roles straight, of who likes who.