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robinwalter's review
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
0.5
I gave this book one star out of five at the Kobo bookstore, because it would let me go any lower. The writing in this book is lazy, sloppy, awful. It is so bad that had the book been any longer than 90 or so pages, I would have dropped it.
The author alleges that this is a historical romance, yet all of the characters express 21st-century attitudes and viewpoints, and more egregiously do so using 21st-century vocabulary. There are many clumsy awkward phrases which suggest that the author has not got the hang of writing in English. It is quite certain that whoever the author is, they have made no attempt to write anything that vaguely resembles the English of the time period in which the story is set. To give just one example, of far, far too many : "You did good, girl." May be a very minor grammatical error, but it seems very likely that at is not the sort of error that would be made by a duke of the early 19th century.
Some authors have the gift of being able to write historical characters who express attitudes and viewpoints which are closer to being contemporary with ours while doing so in a believably time appropriate way. They avoid anachronisms. This author does not have that gift, and appears to have made zero effort to make a characters seem like they belong to the time period of the story's setting.
The author alleges that this is a historical romance, yet all of the characters express 21st-century attitudes and viewpoints, and more egregiously do so using 21st-century vocabulary. There are many clumsy awkward phrases which suggest that the author has not got the hang of writing in English. It is quite certain that whoever the author is, they have made no attempt to write anything that vaguely resembles the English of the time period in which the story is set. To give just one example, of far, far too many : "You did good, girl." May be a very minor grammatical error, but it seems very likely that at is not the sort of error that would be made by a duke of the early 19th century.
Some authors have the gift of being able to write historical characters who express attitudes and viewpoints which are closer to being contemporary with ours while doing so in a believably time appropriate way. They avoid anachronisms. This author does not have that gift, and appears to have made zero effort to make a characters seem like they belong to the time period of the story's setting.
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