Review: Forced Drama
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2013
I'm really sorry to give this book 2 stars because there are a lot of good things about it.  Monty is a wonderfully protective alpha male, Georgie is a delightful bluestocking... but they're both idiots.Or, rather, say they act in ways that seem completely out of character in order to create the drama of the book.No matter how many times Monty thinks about how smart Georgie is, yet how she has little commonsense, it still never made any sense to ME why he didn't tell her about the bet at White's and why she should avoid Lord Haworth.  Especially when he discovers that she wants to meet Lord Haworth and that Haworth apparently has something that he can give her that she believes no one else can (even though she won't tell Monty what "it" is).  Considering how well Monty knows Georgie and that he should realize she's not going to let anything stop her, the ideal thing for him to do would be to TELL HER why she shouldn't.  It's not like she has to believe him, but at least it would have made the situation much more realistic if he'd blurted it out and she thought he made it up.Instead I spent the entire novella rolling my eyes because both of them are behaving in such a stupid manner that seems completely contrary to how smart they both are.  There also didn't seem to be a whole lot of focus on the romance between them.  Even after Monty kisses Georgie she barely spends any time thinking about it, she's still too obsessed with the balloon.Personally I would have liked to see a lot more focus on the romance and a lot less focus on her balloon ride.  It just frustrates me when I have to read the characters going round and round in circles that could be cleared up much more interestingly through ONE conversation.  I hate it when a plot turns on the fact that the characters just won't tell the other one what they need to know.