The Heir

[silverflight8]

The Heir, by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Fail on so many levels.

Comments

[kellicat]

Yeesh, that sounds awful! I'll stay from this one for sure.

[rockahulababy]

Thank-you for the warning! Just reading your review pissed me off. I'm not seeing how this man is a "good man."

[ladyserenity84]

Wow, thanks for the warning, I saw the description for this among a stack of rec'd books, and now I know how it comes across.

Yeah, it really does seem - from your description - that the protagonist is a Marty Stu. I don't understand why authors feel the need to tell readers that a character is a "good person" if they do nothing but act in the contrary. =/

[lilya7]

Er...I didn't understand what you meant about the names. Is it because their surname sounds French?

Oh dear, infodumps! How I loathe them - the easy way out for authors.

[silverflight8]

Oh, no, it's not their last names that are a problem: the author has called the protagonist Edward in the Edwardian period, there's an Anne that Harry can't marry - it's a thinly-veiled re-telling of the English monarchy, in other words.