Review: Super funny, quick dialogue and a fashion challenged heroine!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2014
Witty, hilarious, fast paced and outrageous dialogue, a fashion challenged heroine and a hero who was forced to leave India due to scandal. What more do you need? Lady Charlotte Jepstow is a heroine with a mind full of questions and says, does and dresses to please herself. LONDON'S society calls her "The Abomination!" Charlotte wears colorful feathers and fruits on her bonnet, white gloves with purple and yellow embroidery and a neon blue gown with huge red and green flower pattern on it and that is just one of her outfits. She is shocked when her friend, Emma, asks her to write her fashion column while she out of town. A column would be something different to do since she is not going to find a husband again this year. Will she always be "Eternal Burden" to her family? Lord David Marchston is back in London but not by his choice. While in India he slept with the wrong wife and caused a scandal. Lord Bradford, his boss in the Home Secretary's office, tells him is new assignment is to stay out of trouble and pretend to "court" his niece, Lady Charlotte, but not marry her. David's is called "Mr. Gorgeous" in India and he is sick of being used for his good looks. Charlotte and David's story is super quirky, hilarious and imaginative. Gloves, chemises, male small clothes fly off. Great secondary characters like Gotam, David's valet and Sarah, Charlotte's maid and co-conspirator. Ms. Frampton has great catch phrases like "unmarried bachelors" and writes humor in love scenes and it works. My personal favorite romances are hilarious, quirky, have characters that are total opposites and make me laugh, snort, scream and even get my pompoms and cheer them on. I have to give Ms. Frampton my top score of 5 fingers up and 10 toes.