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That was the Duke of Beswick’s two year-old son, eating grass

“But I’m a bunny, papa… And bunnies get hungry when hopping “
That may be the best line of the book

Finally, the epilogue. Almost done. I cannot remember a title that took more out of the reader to skim, intermittently read, comment upon as so not enjoyable. I would give this one star, but that’s for the author. Another star for the fact that she completed whatever you want to call this, and three because I like so many of her other books

And now almost isn’t afterthought, the beat to death plot line, Isobel thinks she is with child. Done to death, that trope must end 90% of this genre.

And here the tale of withdrawal to spend outside of where it should have gone, ends.

Wait for it, on page 342. Fellatio, no cunnilingus. It’s been so long I forgot which is which

The most repeated line in the narrative is
“He’d never been harder “

Creativity, thy name has fled.

Winter, Prince Valiant-
Words had the power to build and demolish

So occasionally there was a line of prose that rang like a bell, but the rest was mayhem. And perhaps that was what the author was striving for.
Not my cup of tea not now

It’s all come tumbling out. The Duke’s wife, unhappy made everyone else unhappy. Another trope done to death.

Figured it out. This is like every Groucho marks movie ever made, the film strip splintered, and sewn together without paying attention. There’s nothing in this flock of pages that has been left out. It is not entertaining. It is fatiguing