Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

OK, I like Regency Romances... good Regency Romances which this definitely isn't. I'll even enjoy decent Regencies... which this isn't... The story is unbelievable in nearly all aspects. And totally unbelievable as a Regency. The manners and mores of Regency England are a very faint and poorly done backdrop to a romance that doesn't ring true in any way, shape or form. The Hero comes home from the defeat of Wellington, he's young, titled and handsome. His wife to be, a young widow who he's proposed to via a letter, is waiting in his London house... right there you've lost me. It's no longer a Regency... it's simply a story that mock's the Regency. No bachelor would sleep in a house with his wife-to-be (especially in a connecting bedroom) without a female chaperon, preferably an older female relative, in residence. And he has a grandmother close by, why isn't she there? Or why isn't the girl in the grandmother's house? This story limps along (I skimmed long portions of it) and when the evil that drove this young widowed mother to marry on the basis of a promise finally shows up it's watered down and not terribly menacing. And don't get me started on the birth scenes! Nor the threat to the birth that is simply dropped to sink into oblivion. Regency it's not, romance it's not really, lusty romp for the most part it might be considered... worth reading? Not really.