Perhaps I might have liked The American Heiress better if the protagonist - the American heiress who weds an English duke and with her considerable fortune revives his estate - were not named Cora. To say nothing of one of Cora's few friends and kindhearted characters being named Sybil. Downton Abbey much?
Cora Cash is the richest girl in America, with the most overbearing mother. Her mother has decided that Cora needs a title, and takes her husband-shopping in England. Cora is particularly distressed, as she would have preferred to marry her dear friend Teddy, who deems her fortune too great a burden and sends her packing. Cora falls into the lap, almost literally, of an impoverished duke, with his own sorry history. They marry, and naturally misunderstand one another utterly.
I've said this about other books in the past, and it sounds a little tired, but this isn't a bad book. It's not badly written, the characters aren't overly tedious or annoying. It's just not the book for me. Interestingly, author Daisy Goodwin's name was seemed familiar to me, and I searched my blog where I discovered that a few years ago, I read another of her books, The Fortune Hunter. Re-reading my post, it seems as if I felt the same way about that one.
Final verdict: utterly forgettable, but also completely harmless.
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