The Countess Book

If you're an Elizabeth Boyle fan but feel that she is perhaps a tad too historically accurate in her characters' behavior and speech and that her plots and characters are not silly, superficial and one-dimensional enough, then this Lynsay Sands book is the one for you. I'm pretty sure Sands wasn't even intending for this HR to have any "historical" in it, but why then bother to throw words like "aye", "'tis" and "'twas" into the dialogue as if attempting some kind of period speech? Just leaving it all modern would have worked better for me.

The plot is a farce and I'm sure it was meant to be so, but somehow instead of finding it LOL funny, I just found it to be silly. It also is full of more holes than Swiss cheese and is so simplistic that if it weren't for the several hot sex scenes, I would have thought it was a book intended for 15-year-old girls.

The characters are appealing in a one-dimensional, cartoonish way, but I like a little more depth in character and plot. The three sisters in the book (1800s England is the setting, I believe) are named Chrissy, Suzette and Lisa. 'Nuff said. So avoid this book if, like me, you prefer HR authors such as Madeline Hunter, Judith James, Joanna Bourne, Carla Kelly, Julia Ross, the old Mary Jo Putney (pre-Lost Lords), etc. On the other hand, if you like cute HRs, this is a cute one.

I'm not sure why I bought this the other day along with 3 other new releases. But since I put out my hard-earned cash for it I felt obliged to read it to the very end. Kind of like a punishment for being as silly as the characters in this book.