Review: Not wonderful
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2013
I think that this is actually a modern romance disguised as a regency. I was seriously disappointed in a number of things in this book and didn't like the premise much at all. I'm a big fan of grand passions and wonderful love stories, this wasn't one. There isn't another summary so here is the story briefly but it does contain ***Spoilers***The h is the ward of the H's father and grows up in the H's house. The H and h become best friends but she has been in love with him forever. When she is about 17 she sleeps with him (totally unrealistic for the period as it seemed very 21st century the way it was described). After that the H always shares all of his sexual exploits with the h, which I didn't cope with. Anyway the H had a mistress, who he breaks off with after he asks the h to marry him. His father has insisted that he marry and he decides to ask the h because he has also loved her for a long time. The mistress is a nightmare and starts trying to come between them immediately and gets up to all sorts of tricks but some of the stuff was not very credible.I cringed a lot in the book and as I said I felt sad because of the mess that the H and h made of their past relationship. It was written with modern sexual attitudes and I truly didn't like the book.