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Changed 3 stars to 2 because even after finishing the book I still don't remember ever reading it until I saw my Goodreads list.
This one has too many characters with contrived plots, I felt like I was reading one reaally long soap opera.
This book felt more like a contemporary book with no historical atmosphere at all. An okay romance
3.5 stars. I had a hard time picturing this story in its supposed era. It had Agatha Christie-like era or maybe I'm just ignorant of the British upper class.
I don't usually write a review for books I didn't enjoy but this book is so much of a mess I decided to write a short one just to warn others off this book.
The setting of the era was superfluous at best, only the mentions of Almack's pointed to Regency era, otherwise it could have been set up whenever.
Characters were flat, villains coming and going as needed and there was no explanation on how the Martine thing was resolved. I suppose the author thought the H and h saying Iwuvyu to each other in the end will keep the reader happy and forgot other parts unfortunately it wasn't enough since there were so many things left dangling.
And to think I paid for this book a bit more than I did other books. Makes me mad just seeing the cover.
Note: I read the kindle version and I don't know how much it differed from the 1981 version.
