Title: Neat plot, clumsy writing
Product review: I won't repeat the elements of the plot (which is refreshingly original, especially for a Regency romance) since other reviewers have done so but I have to say that the writing is very awkward. The reader is told that a character feels a certain way, then the dialogue that comes out of her mouth is totally at odds with this. This is a pattern in the book, and is at its worst with the main characters, Regina and Jules. In addition, not one character ever really comes alive or seems three-dimensional. Regina's mother, supposedly a warm, loving person, gives her daughters platitudes for advice, doesn't act in a way consistent with her supposed "illness," and is improbably connected to anyone who can move the plot along.Too bad that this inventive plot was squandered with stilted writing!
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