For fans of The Selection, this might be an entertaining filler read.

For about the first hundred pages, I felt the story was void of any real depth. It did pick up and sparked a little fire in my belly. But for the most part it was a light amusing read. 

The book actually started out fairly decently, a sort of futuristic Downtown Abbey, but about halfway through the characters were beginning to grate on me and the story was beginning to lose focus. The characters lacked the necessary "on page" chemistry to carry the story. 

Here's the thing: I don't like flighty female characters. I have a hard time associating with female protagonists who whine, worry, and change their opinions of things every other chapter. In Landry Park, however, it's hard to fault Madeline for being the way she is. Raised as a gentry girl, in opulence and wealth, she's a product of her environment. To Madeline, her home is everything. Her title, is everything. Every now and then I saw this little spark of rebellion in her, and I'd start to cheer, and then it'd vanish under the promise of everything she had being taken away. Can I blame her? Not really. Did I like her? Not so much. The narrator didn't help matters. She was so flat, and boring. I think I might have actually connected with Madeline better if she was narrated better.

What saved the book for me were the secondary characters. I loved David, and his dashing personality. I loved Kara, because she was everything Madeline was not. These two really pulled the story along. Nothing would have happened if it wasn't for them. I'm sure Madeline would have been content to stay at home, blind to the suffering of others, and wrapped in decadent dresses. All the pieces of the plot that revolved around her were just so blase. I never truly believed she cared about anything else, much less helping others.

The other issue with Landry Park is that you really have to let go and take everything with a grain of salt. This book takes place in the future, but there are debutantes and a caste system. This is a world of oppression and technology mixed together. I didn't really think about it until the end of the story, but it honestly doesn't make much sense. It's one of those settings you just have to accept, and move on to enjoy the story.

So what did I enjoy about this book, you ask? The secondary characters, definitely. I also liked that, although the romance was a little confusing, it also added such an interesting twist to the story. I knew what was coming well before it did, but I didn't mind. I was too charmed by David, too repulsed by Madeline's father, and too caught up in the mystery surrounding everything to care. When I stopped caring about Madeline, and just let everything else sweep me up, I enjoyed Landry Park. I just wouldn't listen to the audio book again.

I knew that girl had some fight in her! Pity it's taken her to the last 15% of the book to get there. Now hopefully she brings it on home! I'm hoping for full scale rebellion.

Eh... I'm not sure how I feel about this book right now. I think indifferent might be the right word. The narrator isn't really selling it, but also I don't like Madeline all that much to be honest. She might surprise me yet, but so far she's rather frustrating. I just want to yell at her to stop letting people walk all over her.

I don't really deal well with flighty female protagonists.