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Title: Let's examine this in perspective...
Review: Eloisa James is one of those authors (for me, at least) who is either hit or miss -- most often miss. Bored one evening, I decided to give this novel a shot (hey, why not?). It was a mistake. I won't bother summarizing the story since so many previous reviewers have already done that. Instead, I'll *try* to justify one "good point" that the novel might have had.True, the heroine was insufferably weak-willed, and the "hero" more of a bastard-boor than a dashing lord. However, the ménage à trois between the earl, the countess, and the mistress was surprisingly...evocative of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire's marriage at the turn of the 18th century. So if that was what James alluded to (albeit comically), then props for her. If not, well, there's not much saving grace left to say for this book.
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