Review: Enjoyable but not Hern's best
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2012
For a short story, this one is above average, but having read other's of Hern's works, it doesn't do this author justice.  This is a very sweet regency love story, the entirety of which takes place during a ball.  If you are looking for a light, fun, short, and sweet regency, I think you can't go wrong with this freebie, but I would have been unhappy if I had paid for this one as it just lacks the extra bit of oomph to really have made me fall in love with the characters and lacked the action/plot to keep me on the edge of my seat.  If you don't mind paying the current $.99, I would recommend Candice Hern's "A Proper Companion" over this one.  It has the same fun, sweet, regency flavor as this one but it's a fair bit longer and a definite five star read in my opinion, not far off of Heyer's fun romps.