Althea's Grand Tour (Signet Regency Romance) [Paperback]

Emily Hendrickson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1994 | Series: Signet Regency Romance

Encountering the man of her dreams in John Maitland, the first man who did not care about her immense dowry, Althea Ingram is devastated when he mocks her independent ways and claims to prefer women who know their place.

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About the Author

Emily Hendrickson's many Regency romances include The Ivory Dragon, My Lady Faire, and The Rake's Revenge. She won the Romantic Times Award for Best Regency for Elizabeth's Rake and the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence for The Debonair Duke. She lives in Reno, Nevada.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Signet (October 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451179366
• ISBN-13: 978-0451179364
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,036,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I threw it away, February 26, 2000

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Jocelyn and Aroleon Grunow (Pascoe Vale, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Althea's Grand Tour (Signet Regency Romance) (Paperback)

Living in Australia it is very difficult to obtain regency romances and it is therefore doubly disappointing when a book is as poorly written as this one.

It started well enough, with a tall misunderstood heroine and a clearly delineated hero, tantalisingly in absentia for several chapters. Small solecisms such as calling a lady of quality a 'bird of paradise' (slang for a courtesan), whilst annoying, are minor details. From there on it goes downhill.

Character development is minimal, unlikely situations abound and the continual bandying of bad-tempered words gives a disagreeable tone to the whole story. Oddly enough, considering that the heroine's flaw in the eyes of society is her height, another unlikeable character is continually ridiculed for her weight. Regencies need an underlying good humour and light touch to succeed and this one was tedious indeed. It went straight into the charity bin.