Review: The Duke's Reform - Kindle version - where was the editor?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2012
Spoiler alert:  I hate to write a bad review so I will start out with the good.  This was a good story.  Could have been a much better story.  It was poorly told, punctuation and vocabulary and missing words and words added in that did not relate to the sentence they were in combined to make this a very difficult read. When I read a story, I want to read what the author wanted to tell, I don't want to have to guess and fill in the story every other page.There was a lot of room for emotions in this story but not much of it was developed.  The Duke who was very nice at first, then became a jerk and then miraculously woke up and became a groveling good guy was actually my favorite character.The h just wore me out with moving here and there, having clothes moved back and forth, changing her mind, she's in love, she's in lust, she's in hate.  It got to the point where it was just tedious.  Maybe she hurt herself jumping to conclusions about the Duke.The Duke really was a big jerk during part of the book and the h was whiny.  Okay, she was young and not very experienced but she went from being a simpering whiner to being an unhappy shrew.  That transformation can happen but why?  I would have liked to see her emotions and actually see her grow.The sex scenes were very mild and pretty bland. Nothing hot here ladies.The voices of the characters never really rang true.  Some parts of the story did not go anywhere.  For instance, after the baby is born, h takes her first horseback ride.  Lots of anticipation and build up for this and sure enough, the high strung horse bolts.  That's the end of that part of the story.  Seriously, it is never mentioned again.  Horse bolts and presumably she falls off.  We never hear anymore about it.One of the bad guys is just abandoned at the end of the story.  We never find out if he was caught or if he lived happily ever after as a bad guy.The story ended very abruptly.  There was an implied HEA.  But once again, the reader is left out.This could have been a good read if only they had had an editor.  The Kindle version has some serious formatting problems with new paragraphs beginning in the middle of sentences, some paragraphs in bold and other in italics for no apparent reason.  Commas and other punctuation are just, willy nilly throughout the book.  A stilted and unbelievable dialogue.  I wanted to like both the H and the h.  I really did.I am left wondering why I read this book to the end except that, I really wanted to like the H and h and I wanted them to have an HEA.But if you must, get a dictionary and keep it handy, you will need it.  This is a long read and by the end I just wanted it to be over.