Squee Hearts: None
Black Marks:
Testrogen: Low
The blurb was what interested me in Claudette William's Regency romance, Cherry Ripe. Shauna Elton is being forced into an arranged marriage by her step-mother Lady Elton. Before she can learn Lord Damien Drummond is the intended, Shauna runs away, and she is rescued by none other than Lord Drummond, who has never met or seen his intended either. By a sequence of events, Shauna ends up being the governess to Drummond's half-siblings, twins, a boy and girl Bromley. Good fun, that. Too bad lines like the following occur quite frequently throughout the novel: "Why had he let her get away without bedding her? What had happened?" (Williams 23). Why indeed! Needless to say, such lines don't earn Drummond any points in my book--any good points, that is.
