Review: not charmed by charmington
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2013
Ok so this book almost went into my DNF pile, which is almost nonexistent because I have this thing that makes me finish books even if they stink. I have to say that most of this book really really really stunk but that driving force to stick it out brought me to the end of the book which I think was somewhat better than the first 80%.  So this is Cinderella with a twist, but the twist was so obvious that I couldn't stop wondering why it didn't just happen already! This is quite possibly the only version of Cinderella (and I've read a lot, I have a thing for fairytale romances) where I have not felt any sympathy for the heroine.  I gave this two stars instead of negative one because I really do think that the story got better progressively but was still pretty disappointing.  I'm not really sure what the author was going for. There were parts of the book where I thought that her writing was so bad that it had to a deliberate attempt at humor that unfortunately didn't translate properly. I mean the would be hero's name is Charmington, but throughout the book Robert makes fun of the name so the writer had to have been going for humor when naming him that and not just being trite (I hope). The title says it is a regency but the language used was definitely not fitting of the time period.  The characters were overdone and there was no development, you know how they felt because they said it but there was no reasoning or explanation of why and how they came to feel that way, both with the animosity between Cynthia and the stepmother and also with the love stories. They just happened and didn't seem to make very much sense.