Review: There Is No Zero-Star Option...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
If there was, that was what I would give this one.  I got about 24% of the way into the book, and it was bad enough that it went beyond "amusing bad" into "dear-God-delete-this-from-the-Kindle bad". Warning, there are spoilers ahead.1. This book needs a copy editor, badly.2. Not a good Regency.  The writer and the characters don't seem to have any feel for the Regency at all.  Her companion leaves her alone in the park to go chase after her dog, leaving the young miss alone where she can be ravished?  The "heroine" doesn't realize ANY of the social imports until someone else, generally the "hero" explains them?  The only Regency thing that seems to have been taken in this one is that compromise = marriage, which quite frankly the "hero" does nothing to keep that from happening.3. The "hero" is almost like a horrible parody of the Alpha Male Corinthian/Regency Buck type... except he's not funny as that either.  The way he treats everyone I encountered in the book is just way over the top.4. The dialogue is very stilted and sprinkled with phrases the author obviously thought made it sound "historical"... like "methinks".  Mindsets were way too modern.5. The phrase "to welch/welsh on a bet" doesn't sound realistic to the period, probably because it dates to the 1850s.  Too many things like that jolted me out of the reading.6. An Earl would not be addressed as "your grace".7. I could not bring myself to care about any of the characters in the slightest.  Too one-dimensional and unlikable.Not worth the price, and considering that it was only 99 cents, that's kind of sad.