Too much, too sweet, too long

Another of my guilty pleasures by Mary Kingswood who is an intelligent writer and has done her research into the Regency, but the genre, made famous by Georgette Heyer, and lately by the movie versions of Jane Austen's novels, should be light, bubbly, filled with humor and wit and a wicked uncle or two. Kingswood tries to tell a good story, but needs to aim for a lighter touch. Her protagonists are so serious and so sweetly in love, it's cloying, her villians obvious, and her plotting too long. Having said all that, I still enjoyed the story of how shy, unworldly Margaret manages to find love, riches and her voice. Now for No. 4 in the series.