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Lucinda Alden is being pressured by her parents to accept the soon-coming proposal of suitable Mr. Mooten. However her outrageous dinner conversation in the residence of Lord Barret, a relation of Mr. Mooten, quickly assures that any proposal will no longer be coming her way. Lucinda must now redeem herself, and gain the favor of the Lord Barret or ruin her chances of accruing a suitab

[ While it is understandable that Lord Barret would have been the most embarrassed person, it hard to understand why he would request to spank an unmarried young lady, which is most definitely improper, given the time in which this story takes place. If the author had given us his point of view, we would be better able to understand why he choose this particular form of punishment for Lucinda, instead of more proper methods of punishments. (hide spoiler)

[ Since Lord Barret is a relation of Mr. Mooten, would Mr. Mooten not have anything to say about the relationship between Lucinda and Lord Barret? (hide spoiler)

I have strongly mixed feelings about this story. I call it a story because in my opinion it is too short to be called a novel or a book. While I love the idea of the story, I cannot say I particularly loved the story itself.For one I feel as if the story is so short, and that the author could have done much better with her material if she’d lengthened the story line. While reading the story I realized that Lucinda Alden is a spirited young women, who is too prideful, intelligent for her own good. She obviously said something during the dinner held at Lord Barret’s home but if we knew what it was that she said we might better understand her actions, and the consequences she later faced.I felt like the whole story was too fast paced and we weren’t able to accurately understand both the main character’s feelings. For example, we don’t know Lord Barret’s point of view, which I feel is essential given his actions. (view spoiler) Also there’s not really much of a climax to the story. The romance between the two characters is not only very fast, but the author totally disregarded potential disagreements between all the characters that could/should have taken place due to this romance. (view spoiler) Another thing that made me not satisfied with this book is that, when I learned the book contained spankings, I was very interested. However the spanking scenes are really tame, so much so that I cannot even consider shelving this book into my erotic shelf.Personally, I feel that due to the limited length of the story, the author has left out a lot of material, which should have been used in order for this story to reach its full potential.