3)įorecast: Excellent reviews, positive word-of-mouth and a national print advertising campaign will ensure that James's move from hardcover to paperback is as successful as possible. Though each chapter is headed by a droll description of the events to come, readers may find themselves too caught up in the snowballing action to take much notice. Avoiding easy stereotypes, James fleshes out all of her characters and gives them depths of emotion that romances seldom allocate to supporting characters. Chatter among Gina and her friends has the modern ring of a Sex and the CityĮpisode, and James's cheeky, sometimes sly humor makes for frequent laugh-out-loud moments. Before long, Gina starts to wonder if being the wife of a nude-sculpting, frequently absent and socially careless duke might not be such a bad future. When Cam finally returns to England to grant Gina an annulment so she can marry a marquess who loves her, the warm easiness between the childhood friends doesn't surprise them, but the flare of desire does.
Instead of resenting him, however, Gina spends the next 12 years sending him friendly letters. Cam Serrard, the duke of Girton, leapt out of a window and ran off to Greece immediately after being forced into wedding 11-year-old Gina. Fresh and witty, this high-spirited Regency-era romance gives a tried-and-true formula a merry spin.
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