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4.5 stars. Love the h. Unlike most Betty Neels h, she spoke back at the evil rich relations. She even threatened to hit one with her rolling pin.
In fact, I would have given this 5 stars if it weren't for the vandalism. It was the culprit's accent that got me. I do realize Betty Neels is old-fashioned, where you always have the working class and the Quality but somehow the fact that the vandals do not speak the Queen's English doesn't sit well with me. It's as if criminals are always from the lower class.
This series has something that somehow makes you keep reading to the next book. I got annoyed with so many minor errors almost each book has but this one has a really glaring one. The previous book stated that Nelly was having her seventy-fourth birthday but suddenly she's sixty-three in this book??
Yet I continued on to the next book...
This one has too many characters with contrived plots, I felt like I was reading one reaally long soap opera.
A really cute fantasy short story. This reminds me of my childhood stories, giving me the warm feeling.
3.5 stars. I had a hard time picturing this story in its supposed era. It had Agatha Christie-like era or maybe I'm just ignorant of the British upper class.
Typical light-hearted Emma Darcy. Not actually a 4 star since the epilogue kinda ruined it for me. It was a surprise since I usually enjoy having a peek into the MCs HEA but this book's epilogue was just crammed there in the end. As if Emma Darcy had written a much longer story but then tthe editor told her to cut down the number of pages
3.5 stars however I decided to rate this 4stars in order to increase the average rating since I think the book deserves better. I really enjoyed this book up until the H and h meet again in Brazil. The Napoleonic Wars being my favorite historical fiction era, I thoroughly enjoyed the historical aspects (which I rarely do in Harlequin historicals, the books' atmosphere mostly not much different from Contemporary romance). Unfortunately it seemed as if the editor found the unHarlequin characteristic unsatisfactory and ordered a pointless love scene and from then on ordered the author to focus more on the romance and leave off the history. This change felt very abrupt and could have been written more smoothly.