An Escapade and an Engagement

Mills & Boon historical has gone down-hill over the years, the physical historical details have dwindled eg how long it takes to travel between destinations and the manners, mores and speech patterns of the time their set in have been discarded also.......more

Pretty good book. For the most part I liked Richard and Jayne. Richard has inherited the title after his older brother's death. He has spent most of his adult life in the military and is unprepared for the battlefield of the ton's ballrooms. He needs to find a wife, but he feels hunted. As the middl......more

I can normally read this type of book in a couple of evenings but this one really pushed the boundaries of credibility. It drifted along doing nothing for 2/3 of the book, then tried to tie it all up in just a couple of paragraphs, skipping information and decision making. It made me feel that an ed......more

This story is a bit of light fluff with hardly any substance, certainly no plot. It's a shame really as Annie Burrows is an excellent writer but I find her trade mark, 'will they won't they', frustrating. Her books are full of misunderstandings, grumpy hero's and silly, empty headed heroines. And th......more