In for a Penny

Name: In for a Penny
Rating: 3.00 (2 reviews)

by Rose Lerner

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In for a Penny

by Rose Lerner

2 ratings • 1 review • 2 shelved

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ISBN10 1428508201
ISBN13 9781428508200
Publish Date 23 February 2010
Publish Status Active
Publisher Dorchester Publishing
Imprint Leisure Books

Format eBook
Language English

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This was pretty much a bust in every way. I appreciate that Lerner included the unrest of the period, but she threw everything else in the pot with it— duels, villains, poachers, elopement, abortion, riots, spurned lovers, at least three different romances that ended happily and three more that were thwarted— were there more? I lost count. All that and she forgot to put in the wit. The book is supposed to be in tribute to Georgette Heyer, but there’s more warmth, humor, lively dialogue, interesting characters, and subverted expectations on one page of Heyer than there is in this book.

It doesn’t help that I read this immediately after re-reading A Lady Awakened, also a first novel, which succeeds in pretty much every way this one fails. Oh well.