Miss Haycroft's Suitors (Signet Regency Romance)

Rating:
Summary: Couldn't get past the first chapter
Review: I really can't rate the entire novel, because I couldn't get past the first few pages. The entire first chapter was so unrealistic, the hero's reaction to a girl he'd never seen and knew nothing about so contrived, that I couldn't bear to proceed. It was as if I knew the entire, predictable story. I'm an avid reader of romance, and I've read 'em all. I won't waste my time if the story doesn't grab me right away and make me care about the characters and their situations.

Rating:
Summary: excellent knowledge of the Regency
Review: Miss Hendrickson always writes a well plotted and carefully researched tale. Enjoyable as always.

Rating:
Summary: Not a Keeper
Review: While I generally think it unfair to review a book when I haven't finished it, I could not bring myself to read past the second chapter. Life is too short, and this book appeared too trite to spend any more time on it. I don't like books where the characters are two-dimensional and their actions appear to depend on the author's need to move the plot along rather than on psychological honesty. When the hero clearly falls in love with the heroine the first time he sees her and she isn't even awake, I know it is time to put the book down and read something else.

Rating:
Summary: Not a Keeper
Review: While I generally think it unfair to review a book when I haven't finished it, I could not bring myself to read past the second chapter. Life is too short, and this book appeared too trite to spend any more time on it. I don't like books where the characters are two-dimensional and their actions appear to depend on the author's need to move the plot along rather than on psychological honesty. When the hero clearly falls in love with the heroine the first time he sees her and she isn't even awake, I know it is time to put the book down and read something else.