Review: A 3 because I like the series, not particularly this book
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
So I'm disappointed in this one.  The first story, Lawrence was a mean bas****, and Mathew's sister after the first night (jumping into bed with him), was a scared little mousey doormat.  Not to mention more than half the story was the description of tea and the history of it.  I can't tell you how many pages I skipped over on account of that.  Next, Ash, all grown up now and well experienced, but yet still a virgin. Ellen is naive and jittery.  They spend time together as friends, then fall in love.  Knowing exactly what a liar and a conniving b**** her sister Georgina is, Ellen allows her to tear apart Ash and herself.  Fast forward to after the marriage. They're so in love that they wait well over a month to consummate their marriage? She needed to go that slow with the man she was so in love with?  Charlotte made a hell of a stir and started a feud between all the friends, which was as stupid as herself.  I never did like her.  I could go on, but that's enough spoilers for the ones who will still attempt to read this.  Again, more than half of this story was about his Indian heritage, the myths, the gods, his religion, the beliefs, on and on.  Really, I thought I was reading a romance novel, not a history on a country I have no particular interest in one way or the other.  Last but not least, Alistair Grant's story.  Seriously, I had to drag myself through this one.  No matter how hard I tried, I just could not get into this story.  I put it down a few times, even read a couple different books in between start and finish of this one.  But in the end, I had to make myself finish it.  If you're a fan of this series, then I suggest you trug through it as I have.  You'll no doubt need to read this for the next one.  I'm on to the next installment, but I stand by what I said.  This is the first out of the five that I had to make myself read.