Jan G. (sunnysouth) - , reviewed on 7/6/2012 + 14 more book reviews

Sorry folks but this book is so poorly written and thought out that I couldn't get past about page three. The author's purple prose: "Ursula rose quickly from the four-poster bed, slid her feet into a pair of ivory satin slippers and grabbed a tawny cashmere shawl..." all it needed to be was a dark and stormy night. In the next sentence to show us how fiesty the heroine is she thinks as the butler announces "Miss Stanford-Jones" was on the phone the author writes "Really Biggs could be so formal..." what was he supposed to say to the young lady...There's a darn nuisance on the phone? This gets even worse further down the page when hurriedly getting dressed (not wishing to bother her maid) we get another elaborate description of her struggle to dress herself but no mention of what she was doing to her hair...a young woman of her class would have seen to her hair before leaving the house,especially since she had just got our of bed. This book needed a good editor with an ear for the written word and an author with more talent. Please spare me any comparison to Masie Dobbs/Jacqueline Winspear because even on a bad day Winspear writes circles around this unpromising start.

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