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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very witty and enjoyable
This was a great read. The dialog sparkled with wit and the characters were amusing. It certainly wasn't great literature, but for it's intended purpose - a light diversion - it was very good indeed. About the diction - I checked the web and found that the first use of "umbrella" in English appears to be 1600. Since "umbrella" comes from "umbra" meaning...
Published 7 months ago by Loebner
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining quick read, but...
This is another example of "historical" fiction where the characters speak and act as if they are from our time, and without a riveting plot to make up fo it. There are a lot of details that seem anachronistic in Smith's Regency period books. The characters are quick to call each other by their Christian names and in this book, the heroine uses an...
Published 13 months ago by M. Greenwood
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very witty and enjoyable,
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This review is from: An Infamous Proposal (Kindle Edition)
This was a great read. The dialog sparkled with wit and the characters were amusing. It certainly wasn't great literature, but for it's intended purpose - a light diversion - it was very good indeed.About the diction - I checked the web and found that the first use of "umbrella" in English appears to be 1600. Since "umbrella" comes from "umbra" meaning shade, I think its use in the novel is reasonable. It's certainly not as bad as some errors I've seen, such as a Regency miss being thought "spacey"!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining quick read, but...,
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This review is from: An Infamous Proposal (Kindle Edition)
This is another example of "historical" fiction where the characters speak and act as if they are from our time, and without a riveting plot to make up fo it. There are a lot of details that seem anachronistic in Smith's Regency period books. The characters are quick to call each other by their Christian names and in this book, the heroine uses an "umbrella" when it should have been a parasol. Call me picky but a thin veneer of period detail does not good historical fiction make. If you want great Regency romance novels by a modern author, read Georgette Heyer.
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An Infamous Proposal by Joan Smith (Paperback - Aug. 1997)
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