Review: Under Developed Characters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2012
*possible spoilers*I love regency novels and usually see the characters developing as the story progresses. However, in this book, Carlotta never really changed. She was still snobbish when it came to the different classes, as she expressed many times right up until the end. Carlotta decided that even though Mrs. Covington was of a low class, she could enter her house. She just did't seem to be warm and caring at all. Prancing her son around the Pump Room like a little prize pony, even when she didn't really like him. When the story opens, you get the feeling that she really wants her son with her, but then when she gets the opportunity, she whines. It took someone else to show her that she should actually care about her child.Then we have James, who is pompous and arrogant and other times, weak and whiny. The reader is never really given much insight into his heart. He is just a cutout Fabio-like creature, who is title-aware, and very society conscious.Even at the end of the book, I didn't like either of them. They were too one-dimensional and self-serving.I really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't.There were errors in grammar and punctuation, but I don't count any of those into my review.Will this prevent me from reading other books by this author, NO. I let every book stand on its own merits.