Review: No for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2012
Sadly, this story held so many implausible moments, very poor editing, stunted, very unemotional dialogue, missing words, lacking commas, which caused sentences to read improperly, situations that were never resolved. Examples: She isn't Isodore, but William doesn't seem bothered by that or the loss of thousands of pounds in gold bullion; the fact that Dottie can talk was passed off with a laugh; how convenient that the servants should fall for each as quickly as the main characters, everything wrapped up nicely; the protagonist is in the way, so he jumps off the landing and kill himself, over the fact that he can't blackmail Wakefield.The constant talk and thinking about sex went for naught. It seemed as though the author said - well, we have a romance novel here, gotta throw in some sexy talk. I didn't buy the attraction, the kiss wasn't so searing. It all fell quite flat.One major flaw: Noble women or women in general, didn't inherit in Regency England, so she couldn't have been her grandfather's sole heir. There would also be the matter of entailment to add to the mix. The inheritance, money, property, and title, rightfully would belong to the closest male heir - cousin, son of a cousin, etc., going back several generations, if need be, to locate a male descendant. Women could be provided for, and in rare cases, inherit a peerage in her own right, with Parliament's intervention, but not on their own. Upon marriage, a woman's fortunes would pass to their husbands as well. If he was a dastardly sort, she could be left destitute quite easily.Also, once married, her husband held every right of possession over her and could do pretty much anything he wanted with her and she had no say so whatsoever. Sophia ignores this fact, even when she's brought back to her husband's home, she's in his face, telling him she won't stay married to him, etc. She didn't have a choice, so it was lucky that he did himself in.A major pet peeve of mine is the use of parenthesis in fiction, and the author uses them prolifically in this story. Also the misuse of ellipses, which in some cases could have been used instead of parenthesis, or in most cases, commas should have been used instead. Again, if the story had been edited, these things likely wouldn't have occurred.I've never read this author before and I won't be reading her in the future. I looked for the publisher's name on this story and found none, so I assume it was self-published. Sad, because it didn't credit the author at all.