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Summary: Love story to be cherished
Review: After the death of her beloved husband Lady Holland Taylor mourns for three long years before re-entering society. During her first ball she meets a handsome stranger who sweeps the beautiful widow into his arms, but she never finds out his name.Zachary Bronson is shunned by society for his ill manners and new wealth. Determined to fit into society Zachary plans to marry a member of the ton with blue bloodlines. When he meets Holly by chance at a ball he knows she is the woman for him. But would she lower herself to marry a rogue such as himself? He must follow a more devious plan in order to win the lady over. When Zachary makes his offer for Holly to live with him and tutor him in the ways of society she first declines, but the thought of her cherished daughter's future changes her mind. It's only one year and then her daughter will be set for life. Holly accepts the scandalous offer knowing her reputation will be in tatters, but what of her own heart? Can she control her heart also? Lisa Kleypas has written a tender and wondrous love story and Holly and Zachary's story is to be cherished. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Not Kleypas at her best, but still passable...
Review: This was a good book and I enjoyed reading it, but there seemed to be something missing. It was that "special" touch Kleypas seemed to have in so many of her other books. For some reason, the main characters in this novel seemed kind of flat, as if they were missing something. The premise of the book is that the widowed heroine, Holly, and her daughter end up living with the hero, Zachary, to teach him and his family how to behave in London society. Zach has come by his fortune by actually working for it and wants to ensure himself and his sister respectable marriages. Of course, he and Holly end up fighting their feeling for one another, not to mention Holly's guilt over her less-than-passionate husband's early demise and the promise she made to him to marry another man. Holly's character seems weak next to the heroines in her other books. She is too quick to agree to whatever anyone else wants, even Zachary, at the cost of her own self respect as a woman. Zach, on the other hand, was your typical brooding hero who wants Holly and will not be swayed from getting her, no matter what. He was also a shadow of a character. There was nothing really about him to cling to that made him so different from any other hero in a romance novel. There has just been something in Ms. Kleypas's other works that somehow made you really feel as if you knew the character's she was writing about. I did not get that feeling while reading this novel. Everyone seemed too generalized and not "complex" enough by any means. I would recommend ALL of Ms. Kleypas's other works, these in particular: 1 - Then Came You 2 - Dreaming of You 1 - Somewhere I'll Find You 2 - Because You're Mine Forever My Love The ones grouped together should be read in that order, as the next novels are about character's from the previous book. These are all EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT reads that will show you what romance novels should all be about.
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Summary: A good read.
Review: I found this book to be good, but not great. The hero is typical Klepas; roughly handsome, honest and misunderstood. I found the heroine, Holly, to be a little bland. Her devotion to her husband was admirable but a little overdone. I found it unrealistic that in the space of a couple pages she overcomes her reservations concerning Zach.
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Summary: Not too bad...
Review: I've been waiting for this book all year and when I finally read it, I found it to be pretty enjoyable. The book however, seemed to be a rehash of her other stories and the final conflict before the happy ending was predictable and didn't seem to be exciting as her other stories. Both the heroine and hero were engaging, so all in all, not too bad of a book.
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Summary: Wonderful, Sensual, Captivating Story
Review: This is the type of book that gives one the "warm fuzzies". Zach and Holly were made for each other. What was so wonderful was the fact that they genuinely liked each other as well as loved each other. No "I hate you" stuff which leaves me cold. Zach and Holly are about as mismatched as a couple could be; yet, they fall in love and like each other. Holly is a true lady and a widow and is hired by Zach to teach his sister, mother and himself "social graces". He makes her an offer she can't refuse and she moves herself and her daughter, Rose, in his home. Unbeknownst to Holly, Zach is the man who kissed her at a party, in error. The room was dark so they could not see each other; however, Zach follows her out of the room and discovers who she is. There is a small minor problem keeping Holly from marrying Zach but that is soon resolved. Lovely story by Ms. Kleypas, as usual.
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Summary: wonderful storytelling!
Review: All I can say is that I am glad that I tried "one more" book by Lisa Kleypas. I tried 2 and didn't really like them, but after Where Dreams Begin, I am glad I persevered. Lady Holly Taylor is a proper lady of her time, and a widow who truly mourns the loss of her husband, George. This in itself was great, since usually we have the widow who has never loved before, but Holly has, and when her heart is once again, awakened, this time to Zachary Bronson, she is shocked and saddened that she could betray George like that. Zachary, meanwhile, can't forget the lady he mistakenly kissed in a darkened room and works it out so that Holly and her daughter Rose come to live with him, so they can teach him and his nouveau rich family proper manners and protocol. As Holly struggles to maintain her distance from Zachary, she realizes that she is losing social standing by her close and scandalous association with this upstart who was once a fighter. Nevertheless, as she begins to fall in love with him and with his mother and sister, society doesn't matter to her anymore. This was such a richly drawn book that I am looking forward to reading what I am told are Kleypas's even better books - Then Came You and Dreaming of You - Holly and Zachary are two truly well drawn characters who make the reader care for them. Rose is neither a brat nor a "precious" child, and Zachary's humble mother, unused to her new luxurious life, is really heartwarming. a secondary romance is written well enough to interest, but not overshadow the main romance. I loved this book and recommend it wholeheartedly.
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Summary: One of my fav Lisa Kleypas
Review: It was a more realistic read than her other books and a wonderful love story without the need for extra trimmings like endless love scenes, mad capers and evil antagonists. I really enjoyed both heroin and hero, they were on the outside complete opposites yet perfectly matched.
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