When Lady Cornelia Dagenham and her friends move to London for the month, they have no idea of the state of the house they have inherited, nor that the scandalous Lord Harry Bonham will befriend them. Cornelia herself certainly has no idea that she will fall in love or that happily ever after may be possible. Engaging. ( )

Review of A Wicked Gentleman

A Wicked Gentleman is dull. It's too bad, because Lord Harry Bonham sounds delish: man-about-town and codemaster for the War Office. But the plot is seriously tired....

Nothing. happens.

Nell isn't the most interesting character, but she shines at artificial instantaneous dislike and vengefully pretending to be someone else. She and Harry keep up the empty hostilities, and for 100 pages nothing new happens. There's some posturing about society, being feisty, illustrating the women's friendships, and griping about Harry. But no one does anything....

The pity is, I love Regencies; I love spies (brainy man of action, rowr). I should have been an easy sell. But this was the most boring 474 pages I've read in a long time. And seriously, 474 pages for this? It should have been tightened up to half the length, and published as a Harlequin Regency. ( )