Review: Fishing in the wrong gene pool
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2013
I really considered just deleting this book from my Kindle and moving on. Everything that I most love about Regencies is sadly deficient in this effort: gracefully written "atmosphere" to anchor the story in time and place, dramatic tension that demands page-turning as it builds, and on the practical side, punctuation that promotes rather than impedes sentence flow. Non-period references and terminology are distracting, even laughable, as in the point near the end of the story where the decline of the aristocracy is blamed on the fact that its members come from "the same gene pool." Any supposed loose ends are tied up in a terse, charmless epilogue that makes one wonder why the author even bothered. Thumbs down on this one.