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3.0 out of 5 stars
Weak Sexual Tension -- Could Have Been a Lot Better, August 30, 2000
Seven years ago, Katherine Daltry followed her father and her fiance to India, eschewing the London society that had adored her. Now, both men are dead, and Katherine has returned, out of necessity, to stay with an old friend of her mother's.
Kat is basically hiding herself away, when her "country cousin" and said cousin's new husband show up and demand to be touted around society. Unfortunately for everyone, Tom Marchington is an idiot who is embarrasing the entire family by salivating all over the salacious Countess Standen. In desperation, Kat asks one of her former suitors, Lord Oliver Stonenden, to distract the Countess until the Marchingtons are called back to the country. What Kat doesn't know, though, is that Stonenden still desires her hand in marriage.
THE MARCHINGTON SCANDAL's plot is too twisted and meandering for its length, not to mention being pretty silly. However, my main complaint for the novel is that the attraction between the main characters is lukewarm to nonexistent. At the end of book, I had serious doubts that they loved each other at all, or that their marriage would be a happy one, and in a romance novel, that's a major deduction point. The writing was fine, and some parts of the novel were interesting, but THE MARCHINGTON SCANDAL fails in its main purpose: as a romance. Hence, I can only give it three stars, for being mildly entertaining.
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