Book one-hundred-and-eight: Brighter than the Sun

Brighter than the Sun (1997)
Julia Quinn

Rating: 2/5

Frustrating. The set up took waaaaaaaaaaay too long. It’s already kind of obvious that they are going to get married for convenience – the author has told us in the letter from the author at the start. Why do we have to spend a quarter of the book working up to that?

Start at the alter, people.

Charles Wycombe needs a bride before his 30th birthday -- or he'll lose his fortune. Eleanor Lyndon needs a husband -- or her father's odious fiancee will choose one for her. Marriage seems a perfect solution -- perfectly convenient -- er, make that inconvenient -- but definitely an adventure...

Not much really happens after they discover who is saboteur is – and it’s kind of painfully obvious who it is anyway (and why) – then there is this very short storyline about someone trying to kill them. However, they are never successfully interwoven.

It would have been better had we suspected there was only one person trying to sabotage/annoy/kill them. Then they would have let their guards down and the person trying to kill them… could well, try. But it is made so obvious which infractions the first person committed, then the others are either forgotten about or thought to be accidents. Where is the suspense you ask? Well, that’s just it, there really wasn’t any.

It was kind of funny, but not nearly as funny as The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever (2007). Le sigh.

These are two of her oldest books though, so maybe I should try something more recent? Neither were so bad that I’m giving up on her!

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Finished: Thursday 19/7