Review: Good Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2012
The Reluctant Lady is a worthy relative of Georgette Heyer's Regency novels.  Kristin Marlowe is a beautiful widow with two engaging children.  The Earl of Tressilian is a dashing naval captain and a rake, famous for his inconstancy and numerous mistresses.  Tressilian has various family members and retainers that form the background cast in the novel.  There isn't anything new and different in this book, but the author writes well and keeps the story moving along and her situations and characters are interesting and believable.My main criticism is that so much of the story is told through the characters thoughts -- page after page of them.  I longed for some of Georgette Heyer's light dialogue.  Either that or have the author do some major trimming in the lengthy prose descriptions of what the characters were seeing, feeling, thinking, wanting, or about to do.I would also suggest that someone go through the book with a red pencil and correct the spelling, grammatical errors, and words that just don't make sense.  At one point the heroine says, "One should always obey the miles".  I'm pretty sure she meant "rules", but I had to stop and think about it, and that annoyed me.  There are also a few missing periods, missing commas, "isnt" for "isn't", and missing spaces between periods and the beginning of the next sentence.  Alicia Rasley is a good writer and I think that these are probably glitches when the manuscript was formatted for Kindle.  Nevertheless, they detract from a work that deserves a flawless presentation.I really enjoyed this book and recommend it highly.  I plan on reading the author's other works.