Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I couldn't believe how bad this was. I gave up about 20% of the way through the book. When I see the word "madcap" used to describe a book, I am expecting some quirky characters and some amusing events to happen, but apparently the author thought that madcap just means throwing as much silliness at the reader as possible. I was suspicious right from the beginning when we first meet Penelope as she is introduced to the duchess. What human being with even an iota of intelligence comes in out the rain soaking wet and refuses the completely sensible suggestion that she change her clothes and instead sits down in the drawing room to leave puddles on the floor and watermarks on the furniture? If that was not bad enough, she is trailing a pet GOAT! Who brings an animal of any kind uninvited to another person's home? She suffers from verbal diarrhea to a pathetic extent such that by the time the duke declares that she should be sent away I could only heartily concur. I gave up completely on this book when the goat suddenly learns how to open doors and runs around the house in the middle of the night and magically figures out which room is the duke's. Once again opening a door, it then proceeds to start eating the duke's underclothing. Gads! I don't need everything about a book to be entirely sensible and I do enjoy a good screwball comedy, but I don't have any patience for complete imbecility. And Penelope was such an imbecile that I could not be bothered to care about what happened to her. I have no idea how so many people were so enthusiastic about this book.