Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Some reviewer praised this book as "riveting." I would say it's more like stepping on a rivet in my bare feet. The language is full of howling anachronisms and diction errors -- for example, in England, a person who's off his rocker is "mad," not "crazy." Logic error: since the heroine locked herself in her bedroom, how did her sister manage to be in her room to wake her up the next morning? These are little things but they add up to a big thing: the book just isn't well written or well edited. The romance is stilted and predictable. The climactic fight is implausible in a number of ways. I doubt that many English people of the era knew how to swim. I finished the book because I bought it. I won't read any more books in the series.