Review: Didn't pull me in
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2014
I just couldn't warm up to the heroine Honoria.  Even the hero was a cardboard cutout.Honoria is an older woman who runs a bookstore.  It had been her father's.  She has told people she is a widow -- she was supposed to marry in order to inherit.  She not only sells books, she does bookbinding and some printing.  It is the printing of pamphlets that gets her into trouble.  The papers are all about social injustices, and she becomes a target of a few high placed people.Lord Devin is being blackmailed into helping to stop Honoria's worthy causes.  He is several years younger than her but falls for her anyway.  And his mother is far from discouraging the pair.  When Honoria needs a place to stay, the mother puts her in the room next to her son's.I thought I would appreciate the story more being an older woman myself, but I didn't find the characters to be very engaging.  He was the standard young lord who was forced to take his responsibilities on at an early age.  His father loved to travel and was always off somewhere.  In fact the father had died while away.She was a good, hardworking woman.  She wanted to help right the wrongs she saw.  Even though she was supposed to be fairly attractive, I couldn't quite see why the young lord was that interested in her.  She still came off as being more maternal than lover-like in my opinion.This was a so-so story.There was more than just Devin involved in attempts to stop her works