A Week to Be Wicked

The road trip's parade of set pieces, highwaymen, an escape involving acrobats, tips into ridiculous for readers who wanted less incident and faster forward motion toward Scotland; one complains “It just got a bit ridiculous with stories about being acrobats.” Colin's rake persona and endless tall tales wear thin before he's finally allowed to drop the act, and pacing sags hard in the back third once the couple's feelings are essentially already settled, leading one reader to write flatly “Book dragged towards the end.” The ending draws its own complaint too, with one reader calling it simply “Ending was a little too abrupt,” no real epilogue to speak of. At least one reader singles out a specific euphemism in a love scene, admitting “this was fun but i really hate the phrase swollen pearl.”