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Dear Ms Grange,
Despite at times feeling as if I’m “Regency’d” out, a good one can still pull me in, entertain me and leave me feeling good. Your book has lots of elements I look for such as believable lead characters and period detail yet avoids obvious historical mistakes and makes use of Brighton instead of London. Yet with all that going for it it, I sit here the day after finishing and it and have trouble remembering it clearly. It’s just sort of dull. [There's nothing horrid but nothing great.]
Miss Cassandra Paxton is a likable heroine. She works hard to provide for her younger sister now that their parents and older brother are dead. She keeps her head in a crisis, wants to do right and fix any problems her feckless, idiot, spindthrift brother created (though her idea of bringing any fallen barque of frailty who her brother might have ruined to live with her and her young sister is silly).
Justin Deverill is like any other nobleman out to ‘help the crown’ root out traitors. He’s noble, patriotic, feels an obligation to help Cassie and does so. Only he’s …
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