A Reluctant Courtship

Laurie Alice Eakes is one of my favorite storytellers. I often find that I can hardly put down one of her books once I start it and the characters are amazing and come right off the page. I've been curious about Honore's possibility for future romance since the first novel in The Daughters of Bainbridge House trilogy began and I'm delighted to be able to finally experience it. I absolutely hope that Laurie Alice Eakes will keep the stories coming!

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This was an enjoyable and unpredictable story set in Regency-era England. It's fairly light, but the sort of story that's enjoyable to sit back and read quickly for fun.

My only big gripe is the author's vocabulary gaffe. Evidently she does not know the meaning of “amok”...lest others don't know, it is a very close synonym of berserk; basically the same type of mania, but with a word origin from a different part of the globe. One does not “make amok” of anything, whether it be one's life or one's dresser drawer. You can “make a muck” of something, but that's more of an American term than a Regency British term. You can also “run amok”, which means to go crazy or go into a murderous frenzy. Please, dear authors and editors, double check your English terms. :)