Daily Archives: August 2, 2015

“A Radical Arrangement” is a sweet book in the tradition of the Regency romance stories I read back in the 1990’s. It is a clean romance with only a couple of romantic kisses but with lots of verbal sparring.

It has a fun heroine, Margaret Mayfield, who is rather young compared to most young women in romance novels today (she is nineteen years old.) The hero, Sir Justin Keighley, seems to be well established and quite a bit older but it is hard to say if he is in his twenties or thirties. This was very much the age range of the books of that period and may very well have reflected the age differences of couples during the Regency period. It was a tad difficult to try to relate to the Margaret but given the way the character is portrayed, it probably would have been a bit difficult to set her age at something more comfortable for the reader. Difficult but not impossible. Something the author may wish to consider for future books.

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