My Lady's Secrets

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The synopsis sounded interesting. The novel just wasn't.

I appreciate the strong female MC. A lot of research went into the book and it shows. Both things that should make this the perfect historical (romance) novel for me. Yet...

The story starts with an action packed chapters that made me wish I had read the first book(s) in the series only to realise this is a standalone. ⬇️

julesG ... It was confusing and nothing seemed to make sense. The historical background information was thrown in with snippets of the actual plot and snippets of the many characters' backstories. Further adding to the confusion was that each character has more than one name, which made it seem like many more characters populated the first chapters. I know it's period appropriate but not helpful when I try to get my bearings and want to get... ⬇️ 3mo

julesG ... to know the two MCs and start rooting for them.

By 30% of the story I had an idea where this was going, but still felt like I was missing information. Since I neither cared for either Cressida nor Greville, or Lord Byron, or the historical background, or Cressida following the army (I can read that up in a textbook, this novel did not add to my understanding of the historical facts), I started skimming the rest of the novel.⬇️ 3mo

julesG The resolution between the MCs, who for two intelligent people really don't know how to talk to each other, was too simple for my taste. After all the secrecy and miscommunication I was hoping for a big bang rather than a tiny fizz that resolved their whole load of problems. Not to mention that their whole load of problems and by that the plot of the novel could have been avoided if the two of them had actually talked to each other from the start. 3mo

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