stegan's review
2.0
It's maybe a bit unfair to read a 30 year old category historical with today's eyes, but this just wasn't great. The first part of the book was beset by some obvious typesetting and editing errors and the middle bogged down in exhaustively researched detail that left no men's wear shop in Regency London unmentioned. It was only the final third, stripped (comparatively) way down to action and emotion, that was worth the read.
This IS a significant book- Harlequin's first crack at an exclusively Regency line, and written by Eva Rutland, who was one of the few Black authors working for Harlequin at the time. But it was clearly rushed into production, with confusing head-hopping and a level of detail that told that the author struggled to get it to that 220 page count.
This IS a significant book- Harlequin's first crack at an exclusively Regency line, and written by Eva Rutland, who was one of the few Black authors working for Harlequin at the time. But it was clearly rushed into production, with confusing head-hopping and a level of detail that told that the author struggled to get it to that 220 page count.
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