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Loading... A Ring for the Pregnant Debutanteby Laura Martin
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Rosa Rothwell knows her pregnancy is scandalous. She will do anything to protect her baby, even staging a daring escape from her family's Italian home. Rosa has no idea what the future holds - until a handsome but infuriating stranger offers his help. Convinced his family is cursed, Lord Hunter believes he's far better off alone. But the pregnant debutante's sweet nature touches him deeply. Can he confront his demons at last, and give them both a new future...as husband and wife? No library descriptions found. |
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These differences are what kept the book from getting a one star from me. The remainder of the book didn't appeal to me. The structure of the writing itself is poor; the pages are littered with comma splices, which are like nails on a chalkboard every time I come across one (and there was at least one per page - or, at least, it felt that way to me).
(If you aren't sure what a comma splice is, it is two complete sentences joined improperly with a comma. For example, this is a comma splice: "The cat was outside, she was sure that it would return inside shortly." NO. This is wrong and so annoying! It can be corrected in a few different ways: by separating the sentences [The cat was outside. She was sure that it would return inside shortly.], or using a semi-colon [The cat was outside; she was sure that it would return inside shortly.], or using a conjunction [The cat was outside, but she was sure that it would return inside shortly.])
And then there were the ridiculous coincidences in the book.
Altogether, it wasn't the story itself that interested me; it was the fact that the author attempted to tackle a tough subject (genetic disorders and whether potential carriers should have children). That was the only thing that saved this from being a one-star book, in my opinion. ( )