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I will forgive Stephanie a lot because of her previous novels which were - with a couple of exceptions - a delight. The Bastion Club started out well but now with this fourth, the characters have become so formalaic that I can predict what the remaining stories in the series will be. There will be a heroine who is DETERMINED not to wed (even when meeting the hero hunk - the only man she has ever met who has engaged all her senses); a hero who toughened by war eschews the Season's vapid misses, who falls for her but does not dare declare his love.Because he doesn't know if she loves him. Then she falls in love but does not want to tell him for reasons we do not know - or in my case care. A Fine Passion has a truly awful and unlikeable heroine who believes that everything she does is right. And what a snob. Ever mindful of her high-born roots she loves acting the Lady Bountiful to the serfs around her, again believing that all her decisions are perfect. Worst of all, she has no sense of humour. The hero seems in her sexual thrall and under her stern, snobby thumb - I give the marriage six months! The 3 stars are because I did finish the book though I skipped towards the end but I am not eager to read the stories of the rest of the Bastion Club members and that's a pity.
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