Review: Not overly believable storyline, and VERY POOR EDITING!!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
I really wanted to like this book.  It had great potential in the beginning--a Duke, who moves to America without his wife, finds out she's cheating on him...or at least that's what he thinks... and the mystery about her... great idea.  However....I have a SERIOUS problem with poor editing and a lack of knowledge about what was actually happening during the time period an author is writing about.  I was bookmarking every page with any grammar issue--but it got to be too much to keep track of, so I finally gave up.  Then when they talked about phones being installed--REALLY??????  How could you not know when the telephone was invented??????????Also, I have never known of any Duke, even if he turned the Dukedom over to his brother, and is now living in America, who would be on such friendly terms with his staff/servants.  Is it nice to read about?  Yes.  But is it likely to have happened in real life? No.  Even if titles didn't mean as much in America as in Scotland, it just seems a bit too farfetched.I don't believe I will read any more in this series, especially with all the poor editing in the first book--I don't want to have to guess as to what the correct wording should be...  What is funny to me, too, is that one of the characters in the book was constantly correcting another character about her grammar.  Maybe that character should have been correcting the author!!!!