A Mad Marriage

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I like this book,love the character Terry a sacrificing lad but hate his girlfriend who was total ninny.France was good,a girl with moral values who refuse to marry a divorced man as marriages cant be broken only with a piece of paper.Love the climax.Lady dynely was unbearable.Eric too.All in all a dramatic and tragic story you should read yourself to judge.

I usually like May Agnes Fleming, but this is an awful book full of unlikeable and unrealistic characters. The unlikeable people include Gordon, who, finding his adoring wife isn't who he thought she was, casts her off and feels he is disgraced; his mother, who then throws him out because of said disgrace; the wife, who vows bitter revenge; Lady Dynely, who goes to all nefarious ends for her son; and her son, Eric, who is as feckless and selfish as you'd expect someone brought up by such a mother to be. The unbelievable characters include France, who falls in love with Gordon, but refuses to marry him when she discovers that his legally divorced wife is still alive, and Terry, who, on being told he is Eric's legitimate elder half brother and thus heir to the Dynely estate, gives it all up and agrees to keep it secret just because Eric's mother wants him to, and then puts up with Eric stealing his girlfriend (an unbelievable ninny) and otherwise acting like a jerk until Terry dies saving Eric's life and leaving all the unpleasant people to live happily ever after. Except the ex-wife, who is conveniently poisoned by an Italian prince. Feh.