review to come

I received an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The cover and the description led me to expect a sexcapade, and indeed, there's a lot of sex and sexuality in this book, but frankly, it's actually a period romance with sex. And a professionally written one at that. The story, characters and plot were all well-told and richly detailed. I don't understand why this story has gotten such a low rating so far, unless people were expecting something other than what they got.

It's not a conventional love story. There are multiple partners and female/female liaisons, as you might expect from a story that involves a harem, and the process of falling in love isn't smooth -- not that it should be, but altogether, it's an amazing bit of work.

I gave it four stars instead of five because while great, it isn't epic.

The only thing that I was disappointed by was that the thieving earl didn't receive justice. A minor plot point at best. ( )