Review: Cannot come up to expectations
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2012
When an author chooses a title 'His Majesty the Prince of Toads' she creates expectations that are in the direction of 'fairy-tale like,' fun and 'humorous.'The start of the book enhances those expectations and then suddenly we are in the middle of a drama that plays itself out between two people. Already in the first chapters the 'Toad' is not nearly a Toad, just a man who grows from misguided adulthood into a deeply feeling and rather misguided man. Sophie blames the 'Toad' and herself and follows a staggering line of thinking that can be judged as inconsequent and naive. The 'ritme' of the book does not allow the many other inuendo's from the close friends: the author tries to work out Lucas' and Sophie's problems to the nines, but only mentions the friends' along the lines.Delle Jacobs has a bit of a heavy 'style' of writing, which is not bad for the Regency period she sets it in but it makes the dragged out problems only heavier and slightly long winding. A good book, but I dislike it when the title promises something different than the contents turns out to be.