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I’m really sorry, but I didn’t liked it� I suppose the story could have been interesting, but the writing style was too confusing for me.

Unfortunately there was no possibility of following it up in the accepted mode, and although several susceptible gentlemen inveighed bitterly against the barbarity of a parent who would permit no visitor to enter his house none of them was so deeply heart-smitten after standing up with the lovely Miss Lanyon for one country-dance as to cast aside every canon of propriety (as well as to the horrid dread of making a great cake of himself) and ride out of York to Undershaw, either to hang about the gates of the Manor in the hope of achieving a clandestine meeting with Venetia, or to force his way into the house.

Maybe the above is the writing style for the period, but I had a tough time getting what the author meant� I had to make a grammar exercise: which is the main sentence? Which is the secondary?
Sorry, but when I read I want to be entertained�

And let’s talk about another strange word? Here a lot of characters� ejeculate!!!!


The first time I read it, I thought it was an error, but it kept reappearing!

So, these are the two main reasons, but there’re also others that involve the story itself�

I couldn’t understand why Venetia couldn’t shake off the idiots in her life: Edward and Oswald.

Edward is obviously a mama-boy and also somewhat heard of hearing, because the poor Venetia cannot convince him that she doesn’t want him! Sanctimonious idiot!


Oswald is a young puppy who just wants what he wants, but at least he was excluded from the story much sooner than Edward.

And shell we talk about Mrs. Scorrier? A social climber who just want to take Venetia’s place! Rude and nasty, But Venetia doesn’t put her down even when she went and offend her lame brother!

The problem is that Venetia doesn’t want to hurt the feelings of every person who’s near her, even if they’re making her life miserable! I wanted to yell at her to throw them all out of her life with a good kick on their collective backside!


Now about Jasper� he was the supposed villain here that everybody and their neighbours wanted to remove from Venetia’s life. And I don’t get why� There was some very crooked explanation given by her aunt about his being a rake and Venetia being too virtuous for him, but I didn’t understand it at all� Something to do with her age and beauty and his rakish ways� Mah�

I didn’t find Jasper wicked at all: he was the exact opposite! He was intelligent and nice and friendly. The only one not against him was Venetia’s brother Aubrey.

Aubrey is the most grey-area character here. He’s very clever, but very young and selfish and doesn’t help Venetia in any way. He’s supposedly supportive of her against Mrs. Scorrier, but doesn’t realize that it would be more helpful is he went away.

Now, the issue with Venetia’s mother� Gah� Gah for several reasons: a degenerate mother, selfish woman and idiot to boot. But my biggest problem is that everybody, and I stress EVERYBODY, new that she wasn’t dead, but nobody thought to tell that to Venetia!!!!


I’m really, really sorry, but this was not for me�