A Minor Inconvenience
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A French musket ball to the leg takes Captain Hugh Fanshawe from the battlefield and leaves him enduring long, quiet days compiling paperwork at Horse Guards headquarters. He knows his lameness makes him the object of pity and distaste at the stifling social engagements he dutifully escorts his mother and sister to, but everything in his orderly life changes when Colonel Theo Lindsay arrives. Theo is everything Hugh is not. He’s a man of physical perfection and an enjoyable companion, and their friendship deepens into love. But when the army suspects there’s a French spy at Horse Guards, Hugh discovers nothing is as it seems, and the paper he shuffles daily could save his lover’s life.
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This is a book that I originally DNF'd at around 50 pages - and I can't figure out why because the first 60 or so pages were really good. Unfortunately, I thought it took a strong and sudden nosedive at the 30% mark. My major complaints here are the suddenness of the romance - pretty much instalove - the lack of attention to the plot - which was about a spy for Napoleon and so much more interesting than the romance - and our single perspective character - Hugh, who was increasingly obsessed with Theo and quite the little hypocrite and very, very unaware of...everything around him.
All in all, a solid 2.5 star read rounded up because 1) it was a quick read and 2) wonderful women in the story.
DNF - PG 53
Why?
Because I put the book down last month and have no interest in picking it back up. Because the main character is an oblivious flake. (Mostly the former though, so I could conceivably head back to it if I ever get interested again.)
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