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Summary: Urghh!
Review: This book was bad. Totally incredible plot, no consistency of characterisation, and those white ponies made me want to be sick! This is not a Regency romance; it's a piece of poor fantasy written by someone who has no notion of the period in question but has a very strange imagination. Don't know how anyone can say the author is known for her research - this book bears no resemblance to the reality of the period or the habits of those who inhabited it, and contains some factual inaccuracies. Probably about the most awful book I've read.
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Summary: Eeewww!
Review: This has to be the most nauseating, unbelievably bad book I have ever read. Totally unconvincing plot, unlikeable and incredible characters and to add insult to injury, the most stupid, insulting plot devices I have ever come across. This book had no redeeming features whatsoever. A duke falling in love with, and marrying, the illegitimate granddaughter of a witch? The illegitimate son of an earl inheriting his title? 'Mystic' bloody ponies? I wanted to be sick. The saddest thing of all is that Nadine Miller's first book, 'The Duke's Dilemma', was just so good that I was really interested in reading more of her work. But having read this and 'The Unlikely Angel,' I'm almost inclined to doubt that they were written by the same person. Appalling. Truly abysmal. And as for research - well, it looks to me as if Miller has never heard of the concept.
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Summary: Ick!
Review: This is one book I want to forget I ever spent good money on, or invested time in reading. How did this author get published? Who told her that so-called 'mystic ponies' belonged in Regency romances? And worst of all, didn't her editor tell her she'd got so much plain wrong! This book reads like it was written by an amateur with no notion of the habits, customs and rigid social structures of Regency times, let alone simple inheritance law. The characterisations are all over the place, and overall the book is just terrible. I can't understand how this book got good ratings; maybe some of us are more fussy about accuracy, realism and consistent characterisation in our reading than others.
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Summary: Bad!
Review: What a difference of opinion here! Some readers think this book was wonderful, and some hated it! Well, I'm afraid I have to come down on the side of the haters: it really is an awful book. Sure, most works of fiction require some suspension of disbelief, but this one goes way too far. I was too busy saying 'no way!' to concentrate on the story. As for the white pony the other reviewers complained about, what a stupid idea!
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