And so, as with any goals that I, or anyone else for that matter, have set for myself, the reading challenge has been neglected for the past week or so. This is mainly due to my inability to share my obsessive nature equally between hobbies as I recently began playing World of Warcraft once again, although this time with my group of friends from up north so it's both a good opportunity to chat and to kill blob-monsters/spiders/baddies du jour.
I managed to finish reading one library book, however, which was yet another historical romance set in the Regency period.
Seducing the Governess by Margo Maguire.
The title Seducing the Governess gave away most of the story in only 3 words. The book itself was a little confusing at first as there were jumps between separate story-lines, the first concerning the hunt for an ailing peer's lost grand-daughters, the second concerning the developing romance between a governess and her employer and the events surrounding his household etc. I found the transition between the story-lines to be anything but seamless: I would at one moment be enjoying the antics of Mercy, the governess, and her interaction with her employer when an asterisk would appear and it would switch to the search for these unknown girls that I'd completely forgotten was a part of the novel. Also, the ending seemed extremely rushed off and anticlimactic (insert drôle comments here). I did enjoy it while I read it but I'm not sure I'd read it again.
I currently have a figurative stack of Amanda Quick ebooks to read, plus Terrier by Tamora Pierce, the second, third and fourth in Geroge R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, the Ramona Quimby series by Beverly Cleary and, of course, Snuff by the incomparable Sir Terry. If I ever actually read any of these it will be marvellous so I shall be positive ad hope that my procrastination levels will soon reduce.
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