The Wary Widow by Jerrica Knight-Catatonia
Length: 215 pages
Price: FREE
Author Website: http://www.jerricasplace.com/ (photo credit)
WARNING: THIS BOOK DOES NOT HAVE AN ALL AGES RATING!
Basic Premise: Recently widowed Chloe Hawthorne journeys to London to play chaperone to her soon-to-be-married cousin. But when she meets her cousin's betrothed, she finds herself in love with a man she can never have.
My Take: 3 out of 10 (scale here)
Ugh. I need to do a better job of screening books before I read them. This book is set in Victorian England - a time period I absolutely adore and love to read about. It follows Chloe Hawthorne, a young widow, and Lord Andrew Wetherby, a pompous, arrogant twit who doesn't have an honorable bone in his body. The two strike up an affair behind the back of Elizabeth, Chloe's cousin and Andrew's betrothed. NOT cool. I was surprised at all the...dirtiness in this book. I am still a novice to the world of adult literature, but I guess I just assumed that a story set back in the day would not include this type of content. There were several scenes that made me blush. My main problem with such scenes, aside from the inherent wrongness of what they were doing, is how the attraction between these two people is so fundamentally based on the physical. There seemed to be very little connection between these two characters otherwise. That irks me and is not something in which I want to invest my precious reading time.
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