Thomas becomes an unwilling guardian to three debutantes when his family is otherwise occupied and though he's intrigued by the eldest, a bespectacled bluestocking interested in adventure, he doesn't identify his feelings as love. Marianne has decided never to marry but is interested in lessons in life and Thomas' kisses fit the bill, but their kisses lead them further than they expected and Thomas proposes. Marianne now only wants to marry for love and Thomas doesn't mention it so she refuses. Will he be able to persuade her to change her mind?
I was enjoying this as I usually enjoy Victoria Alexander and then we got to the last fifty pages and it all went too far over the top and she lost me – to the point of putting me off historicals and triggering a spate of tidying. I'd be interested in other people's reactions if they've read it.
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Well, I'd be happy to give
Well, I'd be happy to give you my opinion. Of course, that means I'd have to have the book in my hands…
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I don't get it. I mean I
I don't get it. I mean I know how a book can turn you off, even off of a specific writer, but an entire sub-genre?
Sorry to hear this one didn't work for you. It's one I might have picked up myself given the premise.
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Lorie - as you've probably noticed I tried a few other
Historicals since, and so no, it didn't succeed in putting me off
them altogether, though that was thanks to the other historical
authors, but I was just so disappointed by the end of the book (and now
I write the blogs straight away so it got my immediate reaction), and
part of that reaction was that I was eagerly anticipating this book as
the start of a historical binge, so that compounded the problem.
Hugs
Sadhbh
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