Review: Unanswered Questions
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2013
I liked this last book in the Wedded Women Quartet series, but I didn't love it. The author had even written on her site that it was giving her fits. Where it should have tied up all loose ends, it left too many unanswered questions. Grace, whose family had very little to no money, had been engaged to Lord Melbourne, whose coffers were overflowing, for several years. In one of the other books, it stated the engagement was lengthy because her mother had been ill. After meeting Grace's mother in this book, we know she would have demanded they hold the wedding in her sick room on her death bed before she allowed a suitor as rich as Lord Melbourne to have time to have second thoughts. After reading about her throughout the series, it seemed more appropriate that he was waiting for Grace to mature. Also, did Rosalind marry her baron? Where did Grace's parents go when they shut up the house? She wasn't in the least concerned about the rest of her family as she flitted as house guest to house guest. The man had stuck by Grace for years and Jo and the others acted as if he was using her. To what end, I don't know. That sort of thinking was expected of Jo as she measured everyone else by her own tarnished yardstick. It was admirable that he assisted his sister-in-law in her time of need, but a feeble plan as his brother, also called Lord Melbourne (???) could have and would have extracted his revenge regardless of who was hurt. Even though it takes all kinds to make the world go around, when she wasn't mooning over her victimization, the action - for which the author excels - was outstanding. Maybe she will squeeze in Rosalind's story to answer these and other unanswered questions.