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Title: Cardboard Regency
Review: You know when someone has a good joke and doesn't expand upon it and just tries to stretch this same joke as long as they can til it stopped being funny, oh about twenty minuted ago? Well, that's Rules of Engagement by Kathryn Caskie in a nutshell. In this specific instance, playing on the saying "All's fair in love and war." Caskie takes the cute idea of using a military text as a how-to manual for getting engaged and stretches it, stretches it . . . wait for it . . . and stretches it some more until she gets to the requisite 300 pages. And the author barely makes that 300 pages mark despite what Amazon sez. It leads to an arduous read because other than the amusing epigrams from the military text that starts each chapters, this novel is so paper-thin. The hero, the heroine, the two aunts and the basic plot are all cardboard cutouts. No historical atmosphere, of course (not that I was expecting any). Only that one good germ of an idea and it's not enough.
