Review: A tepid regency novel
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
The story of the misunderstood and devoted female scientist in Regency England submitting finding as a male has been done before. I'm not complaining about the subject matter but how weakly the character of Penelope is drawn. She is presented with too many extremes-too clumsy, too timid, too alluring to the duke. Drake's mother and sister's all "adore" her but do little to protect her when she is the butt of jokes at the ton events. It may have served to move that plot along. It did not help in being together a believable romance.