This review is for the audiobook version of Loving a Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney. This is a book that was maybe ruined by the reader. She used a kind of breathy voice and made the heroine sound stupid, but not in words, in tone. The story is interesting enough, with a man washed ashore and a woman tending him through his amnesia, but the simpering voice of the reader made the heroine really unlikable. It has some interesting ideas in it, a man […]
No rogues here, just a boring tale
Well, I’ve not read anything by Mary Jo Putney before, so this was an impulse grab at the library. It turned out to be a bad choice – it was a bit of a dud. I wasn’t sure if I was going to finish it or not, but I skimmed through parts of it just to get through it. The plots (there’s more than one going on) seemed predictable, and the characters weren’t that memorable. The hero wasn’t a rogue in the least, either, so […]
I don’t think she knows what a rogue is.
Honesty alert: I’m starting this review while only about 40% through the book because I need to let you know that this book is boring and shows no signs of not being boring. I’m not even going to put a spoiler warning on here, because you’ve either read this book, or you should not read this book, so it’s not really a spoiler because you are never going to read this book. From Amazon, because I can’t be bothered with the plot: Sometimes. . . […]