A Lady of His Own (Bastion Club Series) Book

Wow, I was quite shocked to discover that the author finally chose to write a book where the woman wasn't a spinster virgin. Just a spinster. Can't have it all, I guess.

I am increasingly finding myself wanting to go through these books with a red pen and edit out half of the words. I thought maybe it was my imagination, but I started to really pay attention, and the author repeatedly repeats herself three times within a sentence.

I picture her with her thesaurus program open, she picks a word or phrase, finds two more ways to say it and pastes those at the end of the original.

"with a weakness, a longing, a need so potent"

twice in one sentence! "poured through her, vanquished any resistance she might have made, vaporized any wish to do anything other than gather to her that greedy, rapacious, devastatingly desperate need"

And ooh, here her mouth isn't a wanton cavern but "the hot lustiness" instead. I guess that's better?

Well, so far, so okay. I think I'm liking the Bastion Club boys much better than the Cynster boys, but that may not be saying much.

And I spoke too soon. I put this one down for a bit and came back to it yesterday. So repetitive. I skimmed the last half of the book I think. Once they figured out who the bad guy was, and it was never really that big of a mystery to begin with, I really couldn't have cared less how Charles and Penny got their HEA. Right now, I just want to skip ahead to Dalziel's book since I am pretty sure I could actually write the rest of these books myself now. They are becoming painfully formulaic.