The Wrong Miss Richmond

by Sandra Heath

A Demure Beauty Is In The Devlish Dilemma of Loving Her Sister's Beau

THE RIVAL SISTERS

No two sisters could have been less alike than Jane and Christina Richmond. Jane was a russet-haired beauty who adored society. Christina was dark-haired, demure, and had a passion for books.

Nonetheless, both had in common a deep affection for each other. And now they had something else in common as well.

Robert Temple, Lord St. Clement, was the handsomest lord in the realm. Willingly Jane pledged him her hand in marriage, and despite herself Christina lost her heart in secret- as this pair of loving sisters unexpectedly and unpredictably became rivals in love...

Genres: Regency, Historical Romance

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Sandra Heath is the ever-popular author of numerous Regencies, historical romances, novellas, and short stories. Among other honors, she has won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards for Best Regency Author and for Best Regency Romance. She lives in Gloucester, England, and can be contacted at sandraheath@bluey onder.co.uk.

Reviews

[Judithpn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Christina was the only redeeming character, she was honorable and loving, honest and patient. All the rest can just go away, especially Jane. The ending was too smoothed over. Jane deserved to be slapped for acting like the selfish idiot she was instead of instantly forgiven and given her happy ending. The guilt she felt at the end does not compensate at all for her many spoilt and stupid actions she took to that made Christina’s life miserable. Jane got away with too much for me to have any sympathy for her because she irritated me to no end, and since she plays an essential part of the story, it completely destroyed it for me.

[Amy S · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this one. It starts off a little slow but it picks up to a smooth steady pace with a bit of excitement at the end and a sweet happy ending. The characters were entertaining. The settings were creatively blended into the plot. The two sisters were a great blend of the joys and trials of having a sibling.
The bits and pieces about balloon launches were fascinating and contained enough detail to be informative without overwhelming the story.
The dialogue and a few of the scenes with the sister did get a little ridiculous but she was supposed to be a bit of a brat so it worked well enough.
There was A LOT of love at first sight stuff between what ended up being three couples by the end of the story. After the first couple it started to get a bit excessive and by the third couple the believability was rather a stretch but it's supposed to be a happy bit of fiction so you take what you get.
Violence, no sex, mild language.

[Rogue Fern · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are well-written romances with engaging characters and lively shenanigans on the way to the obligatory happy ending. With clunky writing, punctuation abuse, more wardrobe than character description, and clumsy omniscient-writer exposition, this is not one of them.

[Donnalee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cyrano de sister-ac; decent; no real crime

[Cjboyle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sweet, easy to read book. Relatively simple story with predictable outcome; plenty of description used to illustrate the differences between the Richmond sisters. No real climax to the story but still enjoyed reading this book. Middle of the road rating for this book even though there was nothing really wrong with it - as I said at the start, it was sweet and very easy to read, but not all that memorable.

[Kaylynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Light, fun fluff with no surprises