Arabella and the Beast

Rating:
Summary: very well written
Review: Arabella is justifiably surprised when she is woken up one night to find that her father has gambled her away to the dark sinister viscount Blackwater. However, she accepts his hand in marriage in order to escape life as a spinster with her intolerable family. Both Blackwater and Arabella remind themselves that theirs is a marriage of convenience. However, they find themselves falling in love, aided and deterred by various cyprians and manservants. The story was surprisingly well written and Arabella was very likable. I was only slightly disappointed to see that their was not much of a physical relationship between the two. There was only one kiss at the end. I do not like the overtly trashy romance novels that substitue good writing with sex scenes. This novel could have used a little more though.