Review: Pleasantly surprised
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2014
I have to admit to having avoided this author's work until now a) because I read the 1 star review of this book and it put me off and b) the other books seem to be about the hs giving up their innocence and sleeping with the Hs to win them over. I hate 'modern' historicals and from the reviews it appeared that this is what these books were. Fundamentally I know that women in those times were not free to sleep around as they didn't have the freedom, literally, and they ran the very real risk of falling pregnant. If I want contemporary behaviour then I'll read contemporary romances for that (and I read a lot of them).I'm a romantic who likes historical romance so that I don't have to re-read the same steamy sex scenes a million times over. With the amount I read, I can predict what the author is going to write and it's boring usually. Imagination is way better in my opinion. I'm in it for the story and I like authors who pay attention the times they write about. I'm not a history buff and I don't mind the odd historical inaccuracies but I don't like blatant modern language and behaviour.Having said all of that it appears as if the author must have rewritten parts of this book because the things mentioned by the 1 star reviewer aren't there any longer. As a result this is a romantic book with a bit of a thick H, who takes awhile to realise his true feelings for the h. It was a lovely, light read with a very nice hea despite the very obvious misunderstanding happening over the wager. There is no big issue with the H's previous lover at all. I never read the previous book in the series as the content of that seems 'modern' but it wasn't necessary as this book definitely stands on its own.I can definitely recommend this book and I will probably read the next in the series if the author continues to write this way.