Started 12-4-09. The beginning is certainly evocative of Young Frankenstein. Simply silly. :-)It's really three and a half stars, rounded. An enjoyable book and good enough it will lead me to read at least the first of the series. I thought the ending was fairly weak, but.... Loved the line: "boasters will taste the bitter ashes of despair and wallow in the welter that is the land of Woebegone."It could have used a better copy editor. A letter missing in a word; a 's possessive reads as the separate word "is"; a preposition missing. Ellie Haskell, her chef husband Ben, and their friend Mrs. Malloy stop on a foggy night at a strange, haunted-looking castle to find a trio of frightening servants, a handsome, unhappy lord, and--a reality show. In order to raise money to repair his property, Lord Belfry will marry one of the six contestants. But one of them has just been killed in a car crash. Nothing to worry about--Mrs. Malloy has always dreamed of marrying a lord, and none of her four--or was it five?--husbands even came close. Lord Belfry's two cousins live in the area, one being the local doctor and the other, daughter of the last lord, is the malicious Celia, whose new companion has secrets of her own.
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Could not get into this book! Mark this one down as "CanNOT complete." Never made it past page 50.
—mollinc
Her plotting is good and her wit reminds me of P. G. Wodehouse.
—jan
