Booklog 30/2019 - Jane Ashford: Earl to the Rescue

[jacey]

When Gwendoline Gregory is left destitute after her feckless parents die in a coach accident, Alex St Audley, Earl of Merryn, comes to the rescue (totally out of the blue) with the offer of a home and a London season, but what are his motives. In truth I read this sometime last year and forgot to blog it, and now I find it a bit unmemorable and somewhat predictable. Predictability is not necessarily a bad thing, if I'm in the right mood, but much of this was based on misunderstandings which could have shortened the story by half if only the protagonists had talked to each other.

Comments

[watervole]

Never did have much time for protagonists who forget to talk to each other...

[jacey]

No, me neither. It always seems a lazy way to introduce tension, but, of course, a lot of romance and historical romance is based on that trope. You kind of get used to the last page being the protagonists explaining to each other what the reader has known since chapter one. I do admit I'm highly relieved when that doesn't happen.