A Lady (2)

While reading this story, I could not see some things that perhaps I missed, or just did not get. Our Heroine was older than her first season and living in London, so I should have imagined before going to the country, she would know the "TON" of London, yet it seems she does not, until she moves back to London.

She falls in love and the hero falls in love, and yet, neither of them do anything active to earn love. It had me develop the thought further that for us to love a hero, we want a hero to be a 'man', to do an action that is heroic to earn that affection. I don't think in Austen's Pride and Prejudice Lizzy truly loves Darcy until she reads the letter finding out that Darcy actually dealt with Wickham once before, and then when he deals with Wickham over the matter of Lydia, that seals the deal.

Charles Devon, not the hero of this piece we meet and the author describe him as an authoress telling us he is a dullard. Show vs. Tell may not be something that we always follow, but there were other characters we met this way that she also then showed us what she had already told us.

There are some other things, such as making many scenes in drawing rooms that are not described, taking away the tactile and visual surroundings. Not having an action during a dialogue enough.

I believe that the author plans a series of seven novels, trying to suggest that these are books written by Austen and somehow just rediscovered. The way they are written now, with too much tell, not enough action, and certainly poor character studies that we do not have any regard for the heroes that the author presents, I have no desire to read any further.… (more)