Review: Wanton
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
Amelia Hubbard, former teacher at Miss Peabody's School for Girls, had an arranged marriage by her former employer. Miss Peabody had dowered Amelia to Lucas Drake. Upon meeting Lucas, he makes it clear that he has no intention of marrying her; angered, Amelia tells him that she doesn't want him either. So far so good, but the book becomes mediocre from there on. Determined to have his youngest son marry, Lucas's father promises an estate to Amelia if she will wait a little longer until Lucas can be convinced to marry her. She meets Barbara Middleton, a notorious woman, at a ball. After telling Barbara of her problem, Barbara convinces Amelia to come live with her where she embarks upon grooming Amelia to entice Lucas. Most of the book is fairly predictable; some particular aspects of the book bothered me-the author used the terms, "they stared at each other" or "he(she) studied her (him)", frequently; also terms such as she looked "sexy". All in all, I could only rate it as o.k., nothing very extraordinary.