Sweet Traditional Romance, clean (including chaste kisses, blushes, tears), predictable and very forgettable.Nice characters are very nice; mean people are really mean; naive people are incredible naive.. you get the picture.
3.5 stars. Cute story, quite derivative of Georgette Heyer's style.
Clarissa, the heroine, is the daughter of a courtesan, and breathtakingly beautiful (think Elizabeth Taylor in her teens). Her mother gives her to the hero in lieu of payment of an old debt she owes him (no, he was never her customer). Trouble is, Clarissa was raised in an extremely strict girls' sc...
It’s interesting to compare this book to [b:An Offer From a Gentleman|110385|An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3)|Julia Quinn|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1306208628s/110385.jpg|846764] by Julia Quinn, which was published just two years later. Both have the same basic plot: a successful/high ...
All very nice and - sometimes - refreshing, but also extremely uninteresting.
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