Janice - reviewed Overrated on 3/16/2009 + 646 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I had heard good things about this book, but I was disappointed.

The first parts of the book, in which the heroine goes to auditions, steps through time and has her first direct experience of regency life (and it's all the downside of it, which was considerable), were interesting reading, but after that the stereotypes set in and things went downhill. The man the heroine falls in love with is such a stereotypical regency hero that he's pure cardboard through & through. I was left with the feeling that the author didn't really know where it was all going when she started off.

If you want to read some good regencies with some substance to them, then books by Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, Carla Kelly, Marion Chesney, Diane Gaston, Edith Layton or Barbara Metzger are much better bets.

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