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The Rake's Unconventional Mistress (Harlequin Historical)

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I usually enjoy Juliet Landon's books, but this one was so full of historic inaccuracies, I could not believe she had written it!
The Heroine, Letitia, was a 'lady of quality' who ran a girls Seminary (I did not see any evidence of her teaching!) for young ladies who seemed to just run around Richmond and London endlessly. Two of seven got in rather large trouble due to her inattention and inexperience. The Hero had little or no substance other that saving the Heroine! And oh, did I mention that the lady also anonymously wrote steamy books everyone was reading?
For a 24 year old young lady to be running a school with various loosely employed (many male!) teachers, to be proclaiming to her uncle she was going to be a mistress, and to be sleeping with the Hero AT THE SCHOOL struck me as rediculous!!!! Pass this one by--I wish I had!

It is unfortunate indeed that this writer chose to place her protagonist in such unlikely situations. No woman, I repeat, no woman of the time would have acted the way Letitia acted. It just didn't happen. I believe that an author who wants to modernize her heroine should do a time travel novel. Please don't insult your intelligent reader's intelligence by creating people and placing them in improbable situations. It makes the author look like a lazy, trifling idiot.

On the plus side, the author knows how to create sexual tension between her main characters. The repartee was delicious, and I can say even better than most of the drivel I have read recently. If Ms. Landon can remain historically accurate and also provide interesting, intelligent, sizzling repartee and romance between her characters, she will have won me over. This is the first book I've read by her, and it's not bad. Just not Georgette Heyer by a country mile. She got three stars from me based on her writing ability alone, not the story line.

It would be a miracle if the editors of these books would do their jobs and stop printing them. But then, could it be that they are just as lazy and trifling as the authors?

Not even for the kindle version. This book was horrifically bad, absolutely hodge-podge. Utterly unrealistic and dissatisfying to say the least. Based on her other books the writer isn't terrible, but this book is.