Title: The Stranger and the Sanctimonious Miss
Product review: Lisa Kleypas writes books with characters that engage your attention. She tends to use heroines that are so strong and heroic that you can occasionally be forgiven for thinking that they are superwomen but mostly you can empathise with them and the books are quite entertaining. Unless the author's intention was to create huge sympathy for the male character and to emphasize his growth, this particular novel was not up to her usual standard. Most of the central characters were either underdeveloped or in the case of her heroine, an emotionally stunted, self absorbed priggish miss caught up in making herself feel better by doing good works. It was tough going to find any sympathy for her because she seemed to wear her suffering like a hair shirt and no one loves a martyr. She was one dimensional and as a result the book suffered. If you like Kleypas, you'll probably forgive her this lapse, I couldn't make it to the end of this one, sorry.
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