Holly's Reviews > The Work of Art

I really love this author, but this book was only ok. I'm just as surprised as anyone to find myself loving an author who writes CLEAN historical romance books, but usually they are so full of emotion that I just can't put them down because I am so connected to the story. That didn't happen this time. This was a book that has a plot I have read a lot of times before - a hero who is suffering from war injuries, a woman below his station that loves him and yet he thinks she is too good for him. This has been done a lot better with It Started With a Scandal for example (highly recommend that book!). The other trope present in this one is (view spoiler)[a villain trying to hurt the heroine in various planned 'accidents'/threats, and the hero protecting her at the end (hide spoiler)].

I wouldn't start with this book if you have never read this author before. I would suggest either Fair as a Star or A Holiday by Gaslight.