Review: A pleasant read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2013
This is not a particularly long story, nor is it suspenseful, but it's well and succinctly executed. Its characters are a respectable collection of people who seem to fit well together.  The principals are life-long friends who dutifully become more, on cue, simply because their families ezpect it.  What I appreciated most was the straightforward telling of the story, with a minimum of melodrama.  The villain of the piece plays as almost a minor character.  The protagonists play out their transformation from friends to spouses in spite of him.  This portrait of a marriage of the regency period is probably more realistic than most others, with a  bit of romanticism tossed in (they are, after all, friends, which may or may not have been true of arranged marriages of the time).  It's a quick read.  If you're a fan of regencies, pick this up.