The Season

This is a pleasant enough cotton candy adventure romance. Alex and her friends are all rich, clever, and lovely, with attitudes and interests more suitable to a contemporary setting which sometimes get them into trouble. Their only other problem in life is an excess of suitors and a disinterest in marriage. The murder and intrigue adds a little spice to the formula, except it's all very predictable.

The Season hits most of the Regency romance cliches, but the only one that I found particularly annoying is the “characters love reading Jane Austen books in a Regency romance.” Even most of the men have read the novels and Alex has read P&P at least three times.

The ending sets up for an ongoing series but there is no sequel. Sad, I wanted more cotton candy.

The Season is a fun, light, and entertaining read. It is in the same general literary vein as the works of [a:Jane Austen 1265 Jane Austen http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1282032472p2/1265.jpg] and [a:Georgette Heyer 18067 Georgette Heyer http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1202767292p2/18067.jpg], but the overall tone of the writing falls squarely in the realm of today's young adult fiction. There were a couple of places where the word choice didn't really ring true to me, but it wasn't enough to through me out of the story.