Review: A Romp
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2013
This is a pleasant story, with love and family triumphing in the end. It unfortunately has the usual ebook errors with willy nilly spelling and less than thorough proofreading. While I enjoyed the premise and genuinely liked the characters, there were two issues that kept me from giving it even four stars. First, the slang. Perhaps it grated more because I'm used to American English but the incessant use of "mega" and other slang became distracting. Second, a major theme in the book is just plain wrong. Edward, the publicly recognized son of the Earl, IS the legitimate heir to the title and entailed holdings even though - as disclosed in the big reveal - his biological father is the Earl 's brother Richard. The Earl and Countess were legally married, Edward was born during the marriage and recognized by the Earl as his son. Therefore, he's the legal heir and revelations about his biological father don't change that or the succession. Preventing such issues is one of the purposes of marriage. This is a time honored tenet of British law and society - it's in the interest of society at large to ensure that a child born into a lawful marriage can not have his legitimacy and concomitant rights questioned. The author (or editor) should have known this.