But once the story gets moving into high gear, I get a splendid romantic adventure of the finest kind set in Egypt.ĭaphne is a widow who is living in Cairo for three months and counting. I can’t help wondering whether Ms Chase is trying to overcome some lack of enthusiasm or mental block when she is trying to kick start her story. A big reason is because the writing for the first hundred pages is dry and uninspired, composed mostly of short sentences. You may talk of the driest stuff, yet I feel like Whatshisname, listening to Scheherazade.”Īctually, it takes me about a hundred pages to warm up to Mr.
You make it interesting because you love it. “But it isn’t simply your looks,” he went on, his gaze elsewhere, reflective. Wow, someone actually values a heroine for what she thinks? It comes as quite a disconcerting surprise to me when I realize that the heroine of this book, Daphne Pembroke, is pursued by several men in the story, including the hero Rupert Carsington, for her brain.
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