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Title: Overwound heroine
Review: I was eager to read this story, simply from the premise.Too bad it did not fulfull it's promise.Brahm Ryland, Lord Creed is taking his chance to win back the woman he loves, Eleanor Durbane. Years ago, their love was smashed by his drunken betrayal of her with her own sister, Lydia.It all flows quite well, Brahm arrives, is thoroughly castigated by Eleanor, her sisters etc. He takes it on the chin, he trys to win her trust, tells her his side of the sorry tale. Eventually she seems to forgive...Seems, alas. Because Eleanor then proceeds to torture both us and Brahm by changing her mind so often and confusingly, that she is like the old Jimmy Durante song and doesn't know whether she's coming or going.Ruined the book and sank it to the level of over emotive, turgid melodrama. It had me muttering to Brahm that he was well rid of her and to escape her clutches while he had the chance.
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