Well ... What can I say. This is not my genre, but a friend gave it to me as a light read this week. The author's approach cracked me up: "It's 1737 because I say it is, bitches!" There's little attempt at period-appropriate language or other detail. "They wear gowns, stays and drop fall pants, there's whorehouses everywhere, lords and ladies, and gin is illegal - got it? Ok, let's go." But I did admire how she just plows through the story, and in a way, her authorial confidence brings the reader along. I questioned things as I read, but not enough to care, and I read it in a couple of sittings, so no big time investment was required. It is setting up the series -- several big points are not resolved -- but I probably won't read on to learn how it ends. What is with all the books I’ve been reading lately? I swear plot moppets and orphanages in all of them. Maybe I should just put historical romance on hold for a while. Hoyt is a hit or miss author for me. In all honesty, there have probably been more misses. This falls in the miss category.So, a wealthy lord is looking for the killer of his mistress. Supposedly, the only person who can show him around the seedy underbelly of the city is the widow who runs the orphanage. Uh huh. Yeah. Right. That’s exactly who I would enlist to help in my search. Ugh. Throw in a damaged for no apparent reason hero and his super kinky sexual perversions. What sexual perversions? No. Seriously. What sexual perversions? When his sexual perversions are finally revealed, I felt sad. Really? Really? That’s all? Let’s top that all with the widow and her family of martyrs. The widow is a martyr. Her brother is a martyr. There’s a secondary story involving her sister. And, guess what? She’s a martyr, too! Just. Just. No to the whole book.
What do You think about Troubles Intentions (2012)?
3+A solid introduction to the series. Both Temperance and Caire are tormented in their own ways.
—MidnightxPhantom
Out of control good! I could listen to this over and over and never get tired of it.
—Fleksnes
One star because Lord Caire made my skin crawl.
—LDog
