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Danse De La Folie (2012)

by Sherwood Smith(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Book View Cafe

review 1: I thought this was going to be a bit better than it was. I was delighted by some of the Thackeray-esque tones that I thought I was encountering when I first entered the book, the wry omniscient narrator. But that disappeared quickly. After the initial establishing plot involving smuggling and rakish doings, I thought that the whole thing went downhill rather quickly. And even that plot was got rid of with a flick of the hand later when the time needed to be spent with the romances rather than with any sort of extraneous adventures. There were some isolated sentences that I remember making me smile. But really the characters were flat, the dialogue was rather stilted and careful, and the conclusion, as ever with a romance, foregone. I finished it and it was fine. But it tur... morened out more forgettable than I thought it would be. Like a first draft outline, I thought. And a perfectly good one too. Needed the details sketched in, that's all.
review 2: I enjoyed this story very much. It was clean - so so pleased to find no heaving bosoms,etc. I also loved how the author had the characters call each other Miss so and so or Lord whatever; they didn't meet and automatically call each other by their first names.The viewpoint switched between characters. It threw me a little at first but I came to appreciate being able to know what each one was thinking and how they were viewing each other's actions.Very enjoyable read - I will be recommending it to my friends. less

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