A review by melissad75
Indiscreet by Carolyn Jewel

3.0

I wish I could give this a higher rating, because it had a lot of good things going for it. I really liked the hero and heroine, and the story's premise is fantastic. I'm a sucker for romances that break out of the Regency ballrooms of England and are set in exotic locales, so the Middle Eastern setting was enjoyable to me. Character-driven with a hint of adventure -- all good.

The problem for me was that all that early promise didn't quite pan out the way I hoped it would. The conflicts, from the external conflict with a bad-guy pasha who was causing our couple trouble to the internal conflict as the hero and heroine got over past hurts and fell in love, all kind of petered out and resolved themselves too easily. And then

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the heroine was mistakenly reported dead, and had to sort all that out when she got home to England, followed by the hero being mistakenly reported dead and having to sort it out when he got home to England, and it was at least one too many mistaken deaths for me. I mean really.

3 stars