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Not true to period, instalove, etc.
This book was not true to the period. I prefer Regency romances that are culturally accurate. There was way too much admiring of each other's bodies, thoughts of sex, sex, mention of sodomites, etc. A properly brought up young lady, especially if she were as shy as the heroine was supposed to be, would never have been having those thoughts.
If you're going to write about the aristocracy and the ton, it should be in a way that reflects those times, not modern instalove and wanting to jump each other's bones. 99% of the characters' actions were so scandalous they would have been disowned by their families, nevermind the ton. Either that or you should state somewhere in your blurb that this is not the usual Regency.
In addition, the characters were very one-dimensional, the instalove was so instant that it was simply unbelievable and then each of them spent the rest of the book pining for the other. (Well, the hero especially was rather bipolar, hating her one second and thinking she's a whore and wanting to marry her the next.) I ended up skipping through quite a bit of it. Rather boring and poorly written to boot.
April 2017 · Kindle Store · verified purchase