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This is a
classic Regency romance.
The heroine
is Ann Astweir, the younger daughter of the family. Her older daughter
is
marrying Lord Corringdon, who has tried to have his way with her
sister. Ann
has no dowry.
The hero is
Lord Gordon Treezwey, a supposedly impoverished nobleman who needs to
marry
money. However, Gordon, unbeknown to anyone except his sister, is a
best
selling novelist, which would not be accepted by his aristocratic
family.
Money
stands in the way of Ann and Gordon ever getting together.
The
storyline would make a good novel. However, this book was published
before it
was ready for publication. The book needed a good edit, because there
were many
punctuation errors, misspelled words, misused words and choppy
sentences
throughout. Although the author obviously loved her characters and
tried to
bring them to life, descriptions of the setting were nonexistent, as if
being
told in an empty auditorium. The descriptions of the characters read
like a
grocery list instead of being woven in the narrative. With the many
different
points of view, sometimes even in the same sentence, it was hard get to
know
any of the characters well enough to care what happened to them.
Reviewed by Lena
Nelson Dooley for The Road to Romance
January 20, 2005
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