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Summary: Absolutely saddening how poor this is written...
Review: I'm on 252 pages of a 486 page Woodiwiss book, and I don't want to bother finishing it. This is the second time this has happened (I didn't finish Season Beyond a Kiss, and I barely finished the Elusive Flame). I don't know what happened to the author of Ashes in the Wind, The Wolf and the Dove and The Flame and the Flower, but I really miss her. I'm assuming her new editor at William Morrow was too in awe of Woodiwiss to actually edit this meandering story with poor character development, excessive internal prose and abrupt plot lines. There is probably a good story in there somewhere, but you will have suffer to find it. The internal musings of the characters stretch out for five to six pages, all while they are supposedly having snappy, witty ballroom conversations! I only have time to read a few books a month now, so I'm not wasting anymore on this one, and I won't bother lending it to my mother, a bigger Woodiwiss fan than I am. It will break her heart! I'll donate it to the library, so other romance readers won't waste money on this travesty.
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Summary: Regency England or Frontier America?
Review: What has happened to the classy writing we had come to expect from KEW's earlier books. At times I had trouble believing she had actually written this book or that it was supposed to be Regency England.The constant use of `orbs', wouldv'e, and couldv'e was bad enough but `gotten',`pesky', `lit out' and `socked' american words not used even in modern England all served to spoil my enjoyment. Then came `boardwalk'!! PLEASE this is ENGLAND? Publishers please note, if you re-print, TAKE THIS WORD OUT.
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Summary: more fun reading the reviews than the book
Review: When I saw this at the library I couldn't believe
I had missed the latest. Not that it mattered! The previous reviews here are so funny and true.
This book is awful. I didn't finish it and
It made me downright mad! How could this author have written Ashes in the Wind? A Rose in Winter? My personal favorites, but I love Shanna and The Flame and the Flower and The Wolf and the Dove. I will probably still try to read any more that come out in hopes that the grandeur will appear again but really, WHAT has happened to her?
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