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Title: What a waste of paper this book is!
Review: ... The plot is fairly traditional- marriage of convenience, dour man rescued by the love of a good woman, Napoleonic schemes- but the dialogue is absolutely the worst I've ever read in this type of novel. By trying to cram in every single possible example of period speech, the author makes the conversations wooden and often incomprehensible. Serious issues like child abuse are thrown in seemingly to add interest, but are abandoned rather than explored. Each character is more like a cariacature and the end of the book does not provide any satisfactory answers to the questions raised during the course of the book. I was extremely disappointed by this book and was barely able to force myself to finish it.
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