Review: Confusing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2013
I don't normally read historicals, or alternate reality. However, I almost always read Ellora's Cave freebies due to the fact I have found SO MANY good authors from this house. And then there are the authors whose work doesn't click with me. When it doesn't click, it really doesn't click. That's where I am with this book.I can't even give a very brief synopsis, other than an aunt and her consort are trying to marry off 3 sisters. They will choose their husbands from winners of a tournament. Much is made of 2 of the sisters competing in said tournament, but then no details of the tourney are given. None. Anyway, the sisters meet their suitors and smexy times ensue. And they all lived happily ever after.The sisters are basically all the same person. The suitors, except for the foppish one, are the same. To the point where I had no idea who was romancing who. I couldn't keep the men straight. There are 5 of them, and they are hiding their identity, so I started wondering are there actually 5 or really only 3? I still don't know. Throw in a completely pointless menage...Now I like a good menage scene as much as the next girl, but this was not a good scene.Technically, the book is fine. No typos or distracting grammatical errors. The prose is flowery and lush. I just have no idea what the author was talking about.If I had been inclined to keep going back over passages and flip back several chapters in order to figure out what the mmm-mmm was going on, maybe I would have enjoyed this. Life is too short for me to do the author's work for them, though.Bottom line - Time wasted. The plot was indiscernible for me. YMMV.