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Lord Montjoy's Country Inn (Zebra Regency Romance)

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Feisty American heroine (as all American females in the Regency seem to be) arrives in England to visit her aunt. Seeing the family's aristocratic poverty, she suggests that they open the castle to paying guests. Dismissing the tenets of a lifetime, (pride, breeding and dignity) Lord Montjoy and his aunts agree readily to her scheme to sell the family's centuries of consequence and this feisty miss sets up a bed and breakfast for cits. Many rollicking adventures ensue after the guests arrive. The Dowager is the only one who objects to the scheme, and much hilarity is intended, I'm sure, when she is struck in the "butt" by a missile fired from one of the cit's children's slingshot. Her response is to rub her "butt", IN PUBLIC, and at this point I threw the book down in disgust. The dialogue is appalling contemporary American colloquialism, the events are unbelievable for the time period, and the characters seem to be written with no notion of Regency beliefs and mores. This book is a potent example of the hideous new wave in Regency romances, where authors try to spice up the Regency and lighten up those stiff-upper-lipped stuffy Britishers by writing them in preposterous ways into preposterous scenes. These authors should not be writing Regencies if they find the time period stuffy or restrictive - surely an appreciation of, or at least a faithfulness to, the setting is essential to the success of any novel?