Review: Caution: twenty-first century language and situations
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2013
The description of this book was intriguing enough that I picked it up without reading the sample. My mistake. I've read many British historicals as of late, and it's possible that I'm spoiled by plots, ringing true of the sensibilities of the period. To me, that is where this book came up short.Contemporary turn of phrase in dialogue was jarring, but I read on until I got to the scene where a winded butler interrupted the new duchess in the middle of her conversation with her erstwhile housekeeper because neighbors - a vicar's wife and an unmarried miss - had come to call. And then, upon the introduction to the two, the duchess curtsied... The heroine was supposed to be the daughter of a social climber, who ensured she would one day become duchess, as such her being this ill-prepared for the role made no sense to me.Simply put, this wasn't "my kind" of historical romance.