2008-05-03 Wallpaper history and slappable characters

I'd heard good things about LLG, but hadn't previously read anything by her, and I'm afraid Wicked Ways of the a Duke wasn't the best place to start. The setting felt perfunctory, the characters were predictable and there's a standard woeful tale of parental abuse to 'explain' the hero's dark and brooding and dysfunctional personality which doesn't sit particularly well with the overall frothiness of the story.