Sure, everyone loves to get four- and five-star reviews, but the romance blog/review site/my new crush* Smart Bitches Trashy Books doesn’t play that game. There is no grade inflation. The Unexpected Miss Bennet gets a C+ and there will be no whining about the curve.
One, the hero, Tom Aikens, is adorable. He’s horse-mad, awkward, extremely active, and as unlike Mary as could be. She likes to sit and read; he can barely sit still let alone focus on a story. Yet he likes Mary, and swears his horse, Hyperion, whom he takes incredibly good care of, likes Mary, too. Mr. Aikens is not always wise in his actions, though, and can lose his temper – at one point he snaps at Lizzy that she doesn’t know Mary at all, and her understanding of her sister is sadly wrong.
I did a little happy chair dance, because she likes him! She really likes him! Also, Mr. Bennet made her laugh.
Oh, and also? Charlaine Harris read The Unexpected Miss Bennet and she liked it too.
* It was my crush before the review. Seriously. Just like Lizzy revised her opinion of Darcy before she saw Pemberley.
2 Comments
Maria Ragucci · January 30, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Absolutely! One person’s C+ is another’s A. Great comment. Congratulations on the accolades.
Patrice Sarath · January 30, 2012 at 11:44 pm
Thanks!