A review by tessisreading2
Thornbrook Park by Sherri Browning Erwin

2.0

I really want historical romance novels not set in Regency England, and the Edwardian era seemed like a great fit. Unfortunately, this one didn't come through for me. I think the word I would probably use is "adequate." It's an adequate romance novel that doesn't make devastatingly good use of the setting; I didn't really get a feel for the era and it felt kind of like the book could have been set during any time period from about 1800-1930 without any substantial changes. The plot is a perfectly nice standard romance novel plot
Spoiler(hero is haunted by his war service; heroine is impoverished by her husband's death)
with perhaps a few too many frissons thrown in
Spoiler(heroine's best friend wants hero to marry her sister; hero suffers from violent episodes and de-stresses by prizefighting; hero is supporting family of dead comrade-in-arms; plus infertility and financial side plots)
and a mystery that is not very mysterious but, again, adequate. It did feel like the author was reluctant to place the heroine in real peril for most of the book;
Spoilerevery time she thought someone was following her it turned out to be the hero
. All in all, like I said, adequate, but it just didn't click for me.