Miriamgreen’s Reviews > Compromised with Her Forbidden Viscount > Status Update

Two years later
Blah, blah, blah.
Yada, yada, yada

Definitely not one of her better achievements. Nothing to brag about

They solve the dilemma in 2 1/2 agonizing pages of trite, blubbering treacle-I don’t want you to go, I don’t want go, I’ve loved you since Scotland, me too. Awful just awful. And then the epilogue

And here we have the ultimate line of the narrative
Anna was filled with emotion

Give me a break. Unworthy of Diane Gaston. So unworthy, and for the reader so disappointing. So the level of this title was a junior high girls romance read. I am embarrassed I’m reading it

The villain Lucius has stolen away the 16 year-old Ellen, madly dashing off in a curricle. Will has intercepted them, an interrupted duel, and Lucius grabs Ellen to ride off again in the curricle. Which, of course, crashes throwing Lucius out, and Ellen useless curled in a ball. He has despoiled her with her complete permission. tSTL. All The perils of Pauline compressed.

Your choice, mother, be decent or be gone.

Finally the worm has turned. Anna has read the rules to the DowAger-finally. It was a welcomed ballyhoo.

Even throwing the cat among the pigeons with Anna asking Mary to become her ladies maid, and leave Violet, was not enough to dispel the constant formality between Will and her. The longing expressed by Anna was the same as expressed by will but it was as they were parallel lines that did not meet. It became unsatisfying and did not advance a nuanced plot

The miscommunication device in the narrative is very unsettling and unwelcome. To a point it has its place but when it is continued far beyond the comfortable, this reader would like it to end

The narrative has been unrelieved, with hard pedal angst stretching through the story like a taffy pull and I do not like taffy. It is uncomfortable that Anna has not stood up for herself, that she’s not bashed her mother-in-law over the head yet, that she has let the servants dismiss her. But most of all is well who has distance himself entirely. Unhappy reader

This scene where the newly married and servants that aided them, gathered together for a meal. they had foiled the efforts to prevent their marriage and a celebratory meal, it’s description, was well done. In a few sentences the scene was set that drew the reader into the room, sharing the experience. So kudos for this Interlude