Title: Claptrap
Product review: I read this book in hopes of finding a historical novel based on the life of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. This is not that book. I had likewise hoped that there would be sufficient historical content to counterbalance what I anticipated would be essentially a romance novel. Far from it. Regrettably, this work falls into the teenage girl category which misses no cliche in forwarding each and every threadbare convention involving a maid of undistinguished background being subjected to cruelty and abuse, thereby resulting in an unquenchable passion for the perpetrator of said misdeeds. This is the usual trite "the more he mistreats me, the hotter the flame burns" nonsense. If you're in the market for a full on bodice ripper, you have found it. If you are interested in a serious work of historical fiction regarding the Neville family and associated persons depicted in this novel, keep looking.
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