I am currently victim of a bad series. Victim might be a too strong word considering I am the one who picks the book I read. But, nonetheless I have not read a good book in the past week. Yesterday was no different. I read an article about Jude Deveraux's new book. She is a bestseller author in the romance genre and I had not read any of her work, so i though stupidly: why not try? I borrowed from the Philadelphia Library The Black Lion, the only book available from her.
If you read my post a few weeks ago about my inability to read an historical fiction full of historical inaccuracies, you know I am very touchy on the matter. The Black Lyon deserves the first prize in my ranking in the Most Misleading Historical Fiction list. The novel is supposed to take place in England in the Middle Age. Clearly the only thing the author knows about this period is the approximate type of clothes people were wearing, that there were knights and that noble people lived in castles. To give you an example so you can understand my shock: Jude Deveraux writes a scene where the Lady of the castle and her daughter bath their guests. Sorry?! Do you think women of noble birth were scrubbing strangers backs in the Middle Age?! It does not happen nowadays, nor did it happen 600 years ago. To top all of this, the hero is a total jerk and the heroine acts like a 17y old teenager in the XXIst century. I returned the book to the library without finishing it. I will probably stay away from historical romance for a little bit of time so I can recover of this awful read.
Author: Jude Deveraux
Publisher: Avon books
Author: Jude Deveraux
Publisher: Avon books