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A review by turophile
Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal by Grace Burrowes
1.0
Have you ever read a book teetering on the edge of DNF? Little things bother you, such as choppy writing, too many side charcters because in a family series we must get to know each member of the family in every single book? Yet, you keep going because you like certain aspects of it (hey, who doesn’t love a red-headed heroine who’s a financial wizard) and you keep thinking it has got to get better. And then you get to the end and not only do you want to throw the book against the wall, you want to demand not only a refund but compensation for the time spent reading? If so – you can relate to how I felt about this book.
I’m not going to spend too much time recounting everything that bothered me, but it comes down to this – any book whose main message is “Let a man protect you because it will solve all your problems" is not for me.
Our heroine, the beautiful redheaded Lady Maggie, is the by-blow of a Duke who raised her as if she’d been born legitimate. Something has gone wrong in her life and despite the fact that she’s wealthy and drop dead gorgeous, has never married. She hides herself away at her estate. As the story begins, her purse, containing something very important,is stolen. She hires Lord Hazlit, an aristrocrat who hides that he’s actually an aristocrat for reasons that don’t make a lot of sense to me and who’s also a private investigator, to look into it.
He investigates and gets a bit stalkerish. Oh let’s not kid ourselves – a lot stalkerish. But they’re both fabulous people and of course amazingly attractive so clothing is removed and badonga donga ensues. That is not what made me want to smash my Nook.
As the story unfolds, we learn Lady Maggie has been assisting a young woman, whom we know is her sister even though the book stalls on telling us that. Maggie knows she needs to do something but refuses to reach out to anyone else for help because it will impact her family negatively and she trusts no one.
It is only when she trusts Hazlit that she is able to solve this problem. And that’s when the story goes off the rails.
I have no issue with her needing the assistance of another person to help her. In fact, if she’d been willing to seek others’ assistance life for her and her sister would have been a heck of a lot better much earlier. It’s the notion the author puts forth that Maggie simply needed to accept the protection of a man and all would be right with the world. Wow. Seriously.
Let me quote: “Men such as ours need to protect the women they ove, and we need to allow them this.”
So we have this fiercely independent, intelligent and savvy woman – who’s been doing it all wrong. She needs to let her man protect her.
Ugh. Yeah, I need to stop. What an awful mess.
I’m not going to spend too much time recounting everything that bothered me, but it comes down to this – any book whose main message is “Let a man protect you because it will solve all your problems" is not for me.
Our heroine, the beautiful redheaded Lady Maggie, is the by-blow of a Duke who raised her as if she’d been born legitimate. Something has gone wrong in her life and despite the fact that she’s wealthy and drop dead gorgeous, has never married. She hides herself away at her estate. As the story begins, her purse, containing something very important,is stolen. She hires Lord Hazlit, an aristrocrat who hides that he’s actually an aristocrat for reasons that don’t make a lot of sense to me and who’s also a private investigator, to look into it.
He investigates and gets a bit stalkerish. Oh let’s not kid ourselves – a lot stalkerish. But they’re both fabulous people and of course amazingly attractive so clothing is removed and badonga donga ensues. That is not what made me want to smash my Nook.
As the story unfolds, we learn Lady Maggie has been assisting a young woman, whom we know is her sister even though the book stalls on telling us that. Maggie knows she needs to do something but refuses to reach out to anyone else for help because it will impact her family negatively and she trusts no one.
It is only when she trusts Hazlit that she is able to solve this problem. And that’s when the story goes off the rails.
I have no issue with her needing the assistance of another person to help her. In fact, if she’d been willing to seek others’ assistance life for her and her sister would have been a heck of a lot better much earlier. It’s the notion the author puts forth that Maggie simply needed to accept the protection of a man and all would be right with the world. Wow. Seriously.
Let me quote: “Men such as ours need to protect the women they ove, and we need to allow them this.”
So we have this fiercely independent, intelligent and savvy woman – who’s been doing it all wrong. She needs to let her man protect her.
Ugh. Yeah, I need to stop. What an awful mess.