{"id":955,"date":"2017-12-05T22:40:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T22:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/?p=955"},"modified":"2017-12-05T22:43:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T22:43:50","slug":"dnf-annabelle-enchanted-the-rejected-earl-by-hanna-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/12\/05\/dnf-annabelle-enchanted-the-rejected-earl-by-hanna-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"DNF: ‘Annabelle Enchanted the Rejected Earl’ by Hanna Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not going to give this a rating because I haven\u2019t read the whole book. Frankly, the writing style and premise aren\u2019t appealing enough to me. However, when I was reading reviews of the book, I came across a reference to a character who \u2018used to be an Earl\u2019. Instantly, I was intrigued. How, by all that\u2019s wonderful, could anyone be an Earl and then lose the title?\u00a0 Some arcane legal challenge? The unearthing of another heir? The revelation of illegitimacy? Several possibilities, but all pretty rare. So, when I found out that the book is available in KU and I could download as part of my subscription, I decided to find out.<\/p>\n

The answer turned out, sadly, to be much more mundane – that old chestnut, an author who hasn\u2019t a clue how the British peerage worked (and still works, come to that). So if historical accuracy is important to you, you might want to avoid this one. There\u2019s some fairly un-Regency language in here, too: \u201cHer body language was all at odds, which only amped up the emotional mess that he was experiencing inside.\u201d Or: \u201cHe assumed that he would simply be alright with getting the closure he needed\u2026\u201d. But if this doesn\u2019t bother you, lots of people seem to like this book, so the author must be getting something right. Just not the historical bits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not going to give this a rating because I haven\u2019t read the whole book. Frankly, the writing style and premise aren\u2019t appealing enough to me. However, when I was reading reviews of the book, I came across a reference to a character who \u2018used to be an Earl\u2019. Instantly, I was intrigued. How, by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-hamilton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}