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3.0
Marion Chesney's romances have an unusual layer of ironic detachment. It makes them less emotionally compelling than some, but I enjoyed the light humor, jaundiced view of Edwardian society, and flawed h/h in this one. That layer of detachment also made me not too upset about The appeal of Chesney's work for me is generally more in the setting and secondary characters/subplots than the main romance.
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the hero's reaction to the heroine having been assaulted by another man. He's sympathetic, but not that sympathetic when he realizes the other man didn't rape her, and then he basically says she should have known what she was getting into with her fast behavior.
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