The Scandalous Season

Rating:
Summary: Ok; old-fashioned Regency
Review: I rather liked this old-fashioned Regency novel. Pretty standard theme - marriage of convenience between an older (more worldly) man and a young country miss.
Robert and Rebecca are very mismatched. She somehow keeps getting into scrapes and he is never pleased with her. Very much an alpha male character. Early in the book, Robert punishes her disobedience by spanking her. It is more humiliating than abusive and since he constantly tells her she is nothing but a schoolroom miss, I chose to ignore it and enjoyed the rest of the book.

Both characters grow during the course of the book and we see Robert falling in love and not wanting to. We also get to see Robert in a different light and find he is not the monster Rebecca believes him to be. I liked the secondary characters including Robert's brother. I also liked that Rebecca rides like she was born on a horse and does not completely lose her mischievous ways.

Pleasant but dated (70ish) reading.