Review: Severely disappointed
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2014
Star Berkley had never seen the likes of Sir Edward. He was so deuced arrogant. He was so dashingly fashionable and just as insolent. Added to this, was the fact that he was the most handsome man she had ever come across in all her twenty years of life!Sir Edward, for his part, could do without the pert country airs of a chit like Miss Berkley. She was impish, plain-spoken and went about clothed in virtual rags, and obviously not his sort, which, was just as well for it seemed she had stolen the heart of his closest friend.And then—Sir Edward stumbled onto a most sordid secret: the Berkley's estate teetered on ruination, and brother and sister were being brutally blackmailed by a vile den of thieves. Sir Edward meant to save them if only Star would allow him to do so. She was determined to keep him and his help at arm's length, but he was just as determined to do otherwise.A clash of wills ensued and a web of passion flourished.Above is the description of the book and it sounded just up my alley.  I really really really wanted to like it but I couldn't.  First off, the cover... the book goes on and on about Star's ***short*** hair.  So it seems truly irresponsible to pick a cover with a woman with long flowing locks.  Just saying.As for this "web of passion." Uh huh.  No such thing.  The seduction was unconvincing and the sex boring. Boring.  One would almost think the author had as little experience as the heroine.Then there are the things I find inexcusable in an author and that is a failure to know the basics of the English language.  If you don't know how to punctuate, you have no business being a writer.  This author apparently chose to avoid the pitfalls of the over use of the comma with a decision to use no commas at all.  That just bugs the spit out of me.Another basic of the English language is vocabulary.  If a writer doesn't know what a word means, then the writer has no business using it.  This author consistently used the word "clamored" when she meant clambered.Even though this book was free for my kindle, I still feel cheated.  I seriously do not understand how some people get into print.  And if this is author is self-published, it is mistakes like these that give self-publishing its bad rep.