0.5 out of 5 stars
Cut to the Chase:
Sometimes a novel just sets off every pet peeve you’ve ever had about a genre. This is one of those romances where the dialogue seems forcibly stilted (in an effort to remind you of the characters’ rank and the time period), where the heroine has been in love with the hero since childhood (and thus you’re given no real reason for the love), where everyone is either a duke, an earl or a duke’s bastard, where our protagonists confuse great sex with true love, and where all of the dramatic plot twists that have been culminating are waved away in the final scenes without rhyme or reason (simple solutions that just never occurred to anyone during the first two hundred and fifty pages). I found the characters to be one-sided and underdeveloped, the dialogue boring, and the final climax actually a little insulting (though only if you’re in the medical profession, I suppose; spoilers below).
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