Review: Defeated at 46%!!!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2013
This review is for 46% of the book, cause that is how far I reached before I admitted defeat! If you've read the first book in this series and are gleefully expecting  a continuation the of excitement and spicy bedroom encounters, then hold your breath. It ain't gonna happen, at least not in the first 46% of the book. What you will get is a stodgy, boring rendition of a historical 'romance' that you've probably read before, because the storyline has been done so many times before. Let's see...a young, tomboy who has secretly been in love with her brother's best friend, in adherence to her nature of being outspoken and honest etc. she's thrown herself at the friend, decides to make him notice her by behaving differently, elicits the help of other female characters to bring unsuspecting, dolt to heel...sounds familiar doesn't it?!Again, that's the first half of the book so it could've improved. There are also some things that didn't make sense,  one was when the heroine designed her dress. This dress was atypical of the designs of her era (evidenced by the awe and comments of everyone)yet the author would have me believe that a girl, who was not really girlish, designed such a dress! The 46% of the book that I did read, honestly, is as far as I am going to read. I won't dissuade anyone from reading this, because it is well written. I am just disappointed!