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Summary: Enough Wild Antics!
Review: Anjalie Cantrell, a rich merchant's daughter from Jamaica, crosses words with an unbelievably arrogant and stuffy Viscount, Lord Chance (who is not even good-looking). And she tries to make everyone dance to her tune, even Lord Chance admits to that and not very interesting or reasonable tunes at that. Was she supposed to be smart because she gets people to do what she wants? It was tiring to have to read 230 pages of what is supposed to be considered wit and good writing. Anjalie and Lord Chance were both arrogant, his sister just simply stupid and the plot ridiculous. Where was the humor? Darcy wearing a foot-wide cravat? While most regencies or love stories in general need a plot that enables the the characters to develop their relatoinship,one where the hero and heroine constantly aruge seems a waste of space. THey do not even seem to like each other and why should they? I wounld't. Fortunately, most people do not conduct their courting that way.
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Summary: A slight mis-fire . . .
Review: It's amazing how two authors can take the same plot device, and one does it so very well, and the other--umm, not so well. The one done well was 'Taming of the Shrew' by good old Will, who wasn't afraid to use humor in the telling. This version, however, just goes on and on and on and on! With NO humor. Well, that may not be quite true. The author did take great pains to attach tag lines in nearly every paragraph, saying 'she said with amusement'. Or, 'amusement lit up her eyes' or something similar. But that doesn't make it funny! And--after 240 pages or so of this constant arguing and bickering and author explanation of the arguing and bickering, a two-month or so voyage to Jamaica on a fairly small cargo ship, when the hero and heroine are the only two non-crew persons aboard,(although of course, as the owner's daughter, she was perfectly capable of sailing the ship, just as she could run the sugar plantation, and the rum distillery and the home farm and several other businesses, while the hero was just a useless aristocratic parasite, although with nice shoulders!), being ship-wrecked near their destination, and having to cross the island on foot, complete with her broken something (arm, leg, whatever--I was too bored and disgusted with her hard-headedness to pay attention by this time) they're still 'Miss Cantrell' and 'my lord' before they fall into each others arm's on the last page--with amusement, of course! Bah, humbug. I've read other books by this author that I quite liked, but this one just didn't make it.
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Summary: Heroine very boring
Review: The plot of The Nabob's Daughter was interesting and the writing craftsmanship was excellent, but in my opinion the heroine, Anjalie, was very boring and one dimensional. She was constantly argumentative and all-knowing with decidedly modern sensibilities. There was nothing - and I mean nothing - she couldn't attempt, handle or do. I got so tired of her. The hero, Lord Chance, was more interesting. However, he couldn't save the book.
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