Review: An Astonishing Good Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2013
This book was quite simply amazing! Such a wealth of wit and humor is difficult to find. Throw in extremely good writing, an excellent grasp of the time period, as well as characters to die for and you get one of the best regencies ever published, in my humble opinion. The book even ends well. I literally have nothing to complain about except perhaps the slightly poor editing on the part of whomever was responsible for putting together the Kindle edition. There weren't any glaring errors but a lot of 'not' in place of 'no' and one 'you're' in place of 'your' and such like that. Nothing that actually detracted from the story but something a stickler would definitely notice. I find I prefer regencies in a truly country setting as opposed to house-party settings (unless the house-party is extremely well-done as in the case of A Garden Folly by Sophia Nash) because they feel more authentic and less forced. In this case a young spinster finds herself the caretaker of her 10 year old nephew after his parents - her sister being the boy's mother - die from fever. The pair have been banished to a run-down house in the country by her nephew's family who want nothing to do with her. As they settle in their idyllic life is cut up by a run in with their extremely notorious rakehell of a neighbor. Drama ensues from there as our heroine battles her reluctant emergence into local society, caring for her nephew, and her equally reluctant attempts to resist the attraction to her neighbor that seems to grow with each meeting. I suppose my only complaint is that we the reader did not spend enough time with our Hero. He is so delightfully wicked, complicated, and tormented that we fall in love with him right alongside our heroine. This treasure is truly not to be missed! Very highly recommend for all Regency Romance lovers.