Could I please title a new book genre „Passionless Romance”? Really … *le sigh* Oops … was this a spoiler now?
Well to tell the story without any spoiler is rather impossible.
Amber Sterling is the diamond of the first water, the star of the London season. Everybody loves her but she declines all men because she only wants a title and money. Lots of both preferable. Thomas is only the second son of an earl from Yorkshire and because of no title and no fortune she isn’t even remembering him.
Suddenly things happen. Something that changes her life completely – she is loosing her hair. Sent to Yorkshire where she is about to live isolated in a cottage far away from neighbors or the next town and has only one maid left. She isn’t used to the daily routine and she changes …. One day her neighbor is looking for documents and asks to search her library – the neighbor is Thomas.
This would be the short, short version of it.
Fact is that the story is about two different characters, developing separately from each other. She’s an egoistic b*itch in the beginning, her family is rich but in my opinion cold and only interested in their grace.
Thomas is a nice guy, I am sure, but well … no thrilling male you want to lean on. He’s the standard nice guy. Amber no bluestocking, no heroine you want to be. She’s grey. Emotionless for a long time. Well if she isn’t the center of the attention she acts like a b*itch. And even in Yorkshire it takes its time to change. Did I like any of the characters? Not really. I felt sympathy for Suzanne, the lady’s maid. But is sympathy enough to like a book – not in my opinion.
I really made myself read it, finish it but it was so lacking of passion, of … of being more than a boring Rosamunde Pilcher novel. There is really no passion, no tension – nothing. Nothing. Not even in the end – I mean, okay there is some kissing. But he touches her hip and she touches his neck – that’s as far as it goes.
The story idea was nice. Kilpack could have made so much more out of it adding chemistry, tension and yes, passion to it. To not keep it PG-rated. If I want to PG-rated stuff I watch a Walt Disney movie.
Rating: 2**
(Thanks to Netgalley to let me read this book in exchange for an honest review)
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