A review by thunguyen
Scandalous by Karen Robards

2.0

The story started very promising: an eldest sister of three, impoverished by the cruelty of her own father, was forced to make a bargain with the devil to find a way out for her sisters (the way out for women in 1810s was obviously marriage). Then came the complication, a handsome rake parading himself as the dead half-brother with a whole murder mystery back story. When she shot him with his own pistol I thought the book was really great. But it all went downhill from there. The plot was so thin, if the book was half its length with less historical stuff (you know the usual: ballroom, waltzing, gossiping, barely concealed insults, etc), it may make a fluffy quick read. But the writing drags on and on about nothing, making it a bore to read. The end was a massive chore. Our heroine didn't have to do a thing, everything just fell into place and all was good in the end.