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I Misteri Di Blackberry Manor (2013)

by Erica Ridley(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin Mondadori

review 1: This book was so good. I stayed up waaaay past my bedtime one night reading it and got up very early in the morning to finish it. My husband got up at 2:20 AM and came out of the bedroom and asked me, "Do you know what time it is?" I should have asked him if he had a date or something.Anyway, the book had me from the very beginning. I didn't know what to expect from Gavin, thinking he was some sort of psycho-nut recluse and I could tell that Evangeline wasn't going to really take part in Susan's mother's quest to have Susan marry Gavin. As for Susan's mother, I wanted to hit her in the face with a shovel many times throughout the story. She was a witch with a capital B! She was an old crow!The story was filled with mystery and intrigue and what a love story it turne... mored out to be. It left me with a smile on my face and a warm fuzzy feeling.I loved it and I loved Gavin and Evangeline. They just had it going on. :)
review 2: I've had to think long and hard on what rating to give this. The book felt manic depressive to me, jumping from a gothic romance to a Regency romp in the space of a single paragraph, then back again with a sidetrack to social mores of the times.The hero was all dark and broody and violent one minute, then a grinning, flirting buck of the ton the next. Even my mood swings are that dramatic.The heroine was some strange combination of naive yet lusty wench, capable psychic, logical detective and lonely little girl.The plot was thin, the side characters kinda useless, the main characters couldn't find their arses with a map, both hands and the lights on half the time, and the whole murder plot fell far short of my gothic expectations.Despite these problems, there were some funny lines and I did like Gavin and Evangeline together, even if things moved way fast even for a romance book. I just wish the author could have done more than pull up several handfuls of cliche to pad the story. Or even just stuck with one kind of cliche. I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn't all over the place. less

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