Poetic Justice

Rating:
Summary: Marvelous
Review: Honestly, this ranks as one of the best regency romances I have ever read. I read it a few years ago and when I found a copy of it, I bought it and hung on to it.

Jessica must marry before her 23rd birthday, with her uncle's approval, in order to inherit her family's priceless book collection. Enter John Drydan (not the poet), a man with a past who is completely ineligible. He agrees to pretend to court her to make her other suitors look better to her uncle so he'll approve of one of those. but love takes its own interest in the friendship and thing go from there.

The writing is absolutely spectacular! Clean and easy to read and very forward moving. The characters and plot are also fantantic and compelling. Both characters are likeable, but still have to learn about themselves. The plot has some interesting twists so that (even though I knew how this regency had to end) I was tensing while I read to figure out how it would all come out. The content also shows the author's comprehensive understanding of classic literature (although I missed quite a few of the references simply because I didn't have such knowledge) and even explains in the author's note where she took historical liberties.

I highly recommend this book. It is a spin-off of Rasley's "Royal Escapade" but stands completely on its own merits.