FOUR WEEKS OF SCANDAL | BY MEGAN FRAMPTON

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MY REVIEW:

So this book is a super slow burn. Octavia and Gabriel are thrown together both debating who the property belongs to. They start to see each other for who they really are and start to like things about each other.

I did really enjoy Gabriel’s character, he was sweet and gentlemanly. He didn’t treat Octavia as less because she was a woman. And he had so much care and consideration for her. And an immense amount of patience no matter what happened.

And the storyline was great, I felt the hurt of the characters and what they had to endure to become the people they are.

So I’m not going to lie this book was hard to keep reading because of how slow the burn is, if your into that then it shouldn’t be a problem for you. But that’s just not my thing. I don’t want a instant love story but somewhere in between would be nice.

There was a lot of repetition in the story line where I felt like it was unnecessary. Like every time they referred to the pond it was the pond where she saw him for the first time or he saw her for the first time. We read the beginning so if wasn’t necessary to say at every point.

“Spontaneity shows that your mind is agile, that you are able to juggle multiple ideas in your head, and that you are seldom surprised for long.”

Which was repeated many times. And I understand the concept of keeping the reader abreast of the situation but this was just too much repetition for me.

So one thing that kind of annoyed me a bit was Octavia, she was extremely selfish and impetuous. She didn’t think about anything she did, she just did it. No caring about her sister or Gabriel. And she wasn’t that smart .

This was a bit frustrating, and hard to understand, because I feel like the time period that this book took place she would not have been able to get away with that without causing a huge scandal. She’s extremely stubborn and listens to no one, she also thinks she’s never wrong.

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I did like seeing that Octavia’s character had some growth and starting caring about people around her a bit more. And she actually asked for help. I do understand that Octavia has had to think about herself but she also has a sister that, cares about her a lot so she isn’t alone in the world.

I also don’t think that she could be a gambling house owner and there not be any scandal especially because she was a woman.

All in all it wasn’t the worst book I read but there are definitely character flaws that I couldn’t get over to fully enjoy this book the way I should have. I really enjoy historical romance but this one was just a bit hard to believe.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Megan Frampton writes historical romance under her own name and romantic women’s fiction as Megan Caldwell. She likes the color black, gin, dark-haired British men, and huge earrings, not in that order. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and kid.

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