Almost A Lady by Jane Feather (2005, Paperback)

This book is worse than "poor". This well-known author and her publisher should be sanctioned for foisting such an infantile story on the public, and it looks very much by the incomplete way the story was left hanging, that Ms. Feather plans to continue her horror of a book. Briefly, it is a two character book which takes place on an English privateer during the Napoleonic wars. The privateer is also an assasin whose job it is to kill Napoleon. Very strangely Ms.Feather has called his ship the "Mary Jane" which is an historically important ship which was built in the 1500's. Out of all the names she could have called the ship, why was she so ignorant as to call it this?

One can't begin to cover all the absurdities that abound in this book. I am horribly sure she plans to continue the story because she hasn't told us why the English hero only goes by the name "Cosimo". Also, the heroine's background ends in the first few pages of the book and we didn't get to see her safely home in the bosom of her loving family and friends since she decided at the end of this book to keep on going with her lover to put Napoleon out of commission. If you must read this book, get it from the library.