Review: Characters weren't the swiftest...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2012
This is a historical romance / mystery set in London is 1819.  It starts off quite intriguing, with a impoverished nobleman being coerced into  marrying a chit, the daughter of a businessman, for financial reasons.  The story progresses and they are married, fairly quickly.  The plot moves along fairly fast from there, except for some excessively long (for my tastes) love scenes. There were parts of the plot that were hard to swallow or where I thought to myself, how utterly foolish you are.  For example, to trap a killer after one or both of them, the newlyweds throw a huge ball in their home  (inviting 200 people), hire extra help for the ball (and thus have lots of extra strangers in their house ) but tell very very few people of the danger, because the murderer could be anyone.  How likely is it that something bad is not going to happen?  So, this is good if you want some adventure and romance together and you don't mind suspending belief.