Review: it's was ok, not great.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2013
2.5 starsThis was a short little novella by a new to me author Deb Marlowe.The story revolves around a a chance encounter between two very tall people who meet at a museum. It was a bit of a slow read for me despite it's short length because it was so typical.The story starts with a prologue introducing Hestia Wright. It was a bit confusing because the narrator describes her back story of being a famous courtesan who now helps woman in need. The summary describes two other characters yet I'm being flooded by information on this fairy godmother of sorts. I later figured out that she's supposed to somehow bring the characters together. I would have actually preferred that she had magical powers because otherwise she relies on pure happenstance to 'bring' these people together.Moving on from the confusing beginning we're finally introduced to the 2 or I should say 3 main characters.  Tall Lisbeth is at the Museum for mysterious reasons waiting for her rescuer who never shows up. Instead, she is bamboozled into helping an unsupervised child by Hestia Wright. Lisbeth uses her charms on the child, Aurelia to entrust her until her guardian Lord Cotwell shows up.Super duper tall Lord Cotwell is a inventor who is taken away from his lab in order to retrieve his ward from the museum, again. It seems that Aurelia manages to escape often and usually goes to the museum. What follows is Lisbeth becoming Aurelia's governess until she finds a new post and of course she brings Aurelia out of her shell and Lord Cotwell fall in love, the end. The story was not that surprising nor groundbreaking. Aurelia's only 'novice' in the story is that she's tall. Otherwise I found her to by a typical good-smart-kind-nurturing heroine. Lord Cotwell was made a bit more interesting in that he was also tall (taller than Lisbeth of course) and that he was an inventor. I thought the story would expound upon the inventions a bit but it was more of a personality trait for the character to make him seem more mysterious. I haven't written off the author but i'm not going to pain myself in finding her backlog of books.An ARC was provided in exchange for an honest review