Author: Candice Hern
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback, Kindle/ebook
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services, Signet Romance
Book Source: Public Library e-lending System
Category: Regency Romance
Style: easy read, some provocative content
Synopsis from GoodReads:
Two sisters on the edge of poverty have a chance to meet wealthy, titled, unmarried gentlemen when they are unexpectedly invited to a house party at a famous country estate owned by the Duke of Carlisle. Though courted by a wealthy earl, Catherine Forsythe finds herself falling for the handsome estate gardener and faced with the choice of marrying for money and security, or following her heart. more . . .
My Take:
I am quite ashamed to admit that I was duped, completely and thoroughly, by the innocuous little cover of this book. The image on the right came up on the library's list of books when I looked up "regency romance" in the search engine. (Does one call it a card catalog any longer?) That was probably my first mistake, but whattayagonnado?Way back in the day (last May) when I actually had to go looking for books to read and review, I hit upon this e-book with the antique illustration cover (the big image at the top is the cover for the paperback), and made the request. I had to get in line. It came quickly, but in that time I had accumulated stacks of books to read and so it sat in my Kindle ignored for almost two weeks. Then, the day before it would disappear from my Kindle forever, I decided to see how far I could get.
Reading A Garden Folly took me four hours, front to back. The return on my four-hour investment? A tepid, predictable plot, shallow, mundane characters, improbable situations, absurd presumptions and anything but Regency manners. The blurb on Amazon classes her with Georgette Heyer. Umm . . . no.
