The Surrender of Miss Fairbourne

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Call Number: Romance
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Romance	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"A woman running a prestigious London auction house? Preposterous! But that is exactly what Emma Fairbourne intends to do after her father dies and leaves her the reins of this fabulous enterprise. Of course, she is not addlepated enough to do this openly and scare away her wealthy collectors. So she and her friend concoct a deception, intending to hire a handsome and charming front man who will do her bidding"--Publisher.

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Kind of Boring submitted by Rin on June 28, 2012, 6:58pm Madeline Hunter has written some fabulous books. This is not one of them.

The book starts out with an interesting premise- a woman wanting to run her family's auction house, and clever enough to figure out a way to do it. Unfortunately, both the heroine and the hero of this book were rather forgettable, and the prose itself was not particularly great. The story plodded along, very, very slowly. The ending also bothered me, but I will avoid spoilers here. (The ending is not particularly surprising- if you've read any romance novels, you can probably guess what happens as soon as you find out what the conflict is- it was just particularly frustrating. Basically, "You risked everything for that?")

I am interested in seeing how the rest of this series goes- many of the secondary characters seemed to have interesting personalities and back stories- but as an individual story, this book failed. It had it's good points, but overwhelmingly, my impression of it was just meh. If the main thing I remember about a book after reading it was how boring it was, there is definitely a problem.