The Proposal: Book 1 (The English Garden Series)

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Summary: Couldn't finish it.
Review: This is Lori Wick's worst book to date. The characters seem to be made of cardboard. There's a total lack of plot going on. They just prance around living their happy little lives. They have no flaws, they don't struggle with anything. They all love each other and get along perfectly all the time, even the children. They never get irritated, lose their tempers, struggle with tempation, or do anything that remotely resembles human weakness. The beginning was ok, but once the main hero became a Christian, I just couldn't stomach the perfect perfectness of it all. In addition to this, I think Lori Wick must have a desire to be a preacher. Every single Sunday she wrote out the entire church sermon. The characters would then go on for pages having perfectly sound theological discussions about it. If I wanted to read theology, I would get a theology book. If I wanted to read a nice light Christian romance, I would get something else.

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Summary: A mix of Jane Austen
Review: This is the second Lori Wick book I have read. I loved the first! This book was somewhat a disappointment because I felt like characters and situations were ripped right from the pages of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice...The relationship between Marianne and Jennings mirrowed Darcy and Elizabeth...Marianne even twists her ankle (and thus meets Jennings). Jennings is a mix of Darcy and Edward Ferris, while Marianne is Elizabeth and Jane rolled into one. Lori Wick even used names straight from Jane Austen!
Other than these similarities, I liked this book. It was slow at first, but soon picked up. I agree that the romance was rushed, but I don't think that it was the point of the story. I think Jennings conversion was the point...and this led to a romance.
If you like Lori Wick you will like this too. It is a light and easy read and leaves you satisfied.

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Summary: I Loved This Book
Review: This was the first Lori Wick book I've read and I can't wait to read more. This book may not have been totally real to life, but we're not living in the 1800's. I found the characters' relationships with God to be encouraging and inspiring. I'm looking forward to the next book.

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Summary: 45 pages and that was enough for me!
Review: Ughhh.. I couldn't believe this book. Supposedly it was set in the 1800's england, but if you didn't know that, you could easily assume that it was set in modern day America. Nothing in the book makes it uniquely English. The reading level is elementry at best. Don't even bother buying this.

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Summary: Lori Wick isn't Jane Austen
Review: Unfortunately for Lori Wick, her latest effort seems too much like a Jane Austen knockoff than a real Lori Wick novel. Everything from plot lines, places to charachter names is taken from an Austen novel. Reading "The Propsal" was like reading a modernised comgination of "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice", and sorry to say, Ms. Wick did not do either of them justice.
The charachters are unbelieveable...enough of cliched children! The plot is predictable. I must say, a dissapointing effort from Lori Wick.

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Summary: Who Wrote this REALLY?????
Review: What has happened to Lori Wick?? As long-time Lori Wick fans, my daughter and I were both EXTREMELY disappointed in this latest book. In fact, I am not convinced that she even wrote it!! We have read Sophie's Heart, Pretense, Bamboo and Lace, Kensington Chronicles and The Princess, and these other books have had so much depth, character development and strong story lines that I could never put them down, but I'm finding none of that in this latest book. In fact, I'm having to force myself to pick up the book, because I keep hoping the real Lori Wick will begin to shine through. Yet, I'm half-way through the book and the characters are still very one-dimensional and undeveloped. I haven't been drawn into the lives of these characters or the story that they are living. On top of that the writing is very stilted and unimaginative. I have found many instances of incorrect word choices and convoluted grammatical structure. How could a writer of Lori's caliber, experience and success write something like this? I really would like to know what has happened to one of our favorite Christian authors?