Review: Lies for Love

Lies for Love by Barbara Cartland
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Oh, Babs. This - stilted - prose makes, my brain - hurt. Seriously.

So we have the old switcheroo. Carmela is a poor orphaned girl with no options, and her fabulously rich best friend, Felicity, swoops in to save her from her plight as the world's worst governess. But Felicity, like all privileged rich girls, has an ulterior motive. Carmela must impersonate her so she can run off with her lover while his mentally ill wife dies of a brain tumor (Babs, seriously? This is a new low for you). Conveniently they look alike, mostly, and no one has seen Felicity since she was 5 except her grandmother. Some family drama...not worth describing, as it is just a plot device to get Carmela into the arms of Felicity's cousin. And the ending defies logic, so classic Cartland.

This plot is dumb, as you might expect. It's not the worst by Dame Barbara, but it's certainly not the best. 1.5 stars.

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