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Something Wonderful

Something Wonderful

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Charming romance.
Review: How can you not like a romance novel that begins with a rescue of the hero by the heroine? Unfortunately, our hero, like many of McNaught's males, is a narcissistic twit, but our heroine does not roll over so easily this time. It's a gripping, and sometimes fun, trip to their reconciliation.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A good one
Review: I enjoyed reading this book. I found the characters to be very entertaining. Jordan, unlike some of the other male characters in the author's other novels, was not so much intolerable. His flaws are easily understandable and yes, even forgivable. Alexandra meanwhile was just witty and charming and spunky.

The storyline was clear and simple. Five stars for this book because I found it to be perfect in a way that the characters are real and not so perfect. It left me wanting more after I've done reading it, and even after reading about them in Almost Heaven and just a bit in Until You.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: something wonderful
Review: i have to admit this is the best McNaught historical i've read. i love it! the characters are amazing, even though i did want to slap Jordan at times. Alex was completely adorable. she's probably the only mcnaught heroine i loved reading about. this is an amazing story and you actually get to see Alex and Jordan's relationship grow, although he did have a problem with trust up til the end. Even though he was not the perfect hero, his flaws made him human, and he learned much from his wife at the end. and that's what we all want to be able to do, take a cold-hearted man and turn him into a sympathetic and compassionate human being. i cannot say how much i love this book. i keep picking out my favorite parts and reading them over and over again. it's just a wonderful story that makes you believe in fairy tales and prince charmings.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I wanted to slap him!
Review: I loved the story, the plot and the characters. I just wanted to slap him silly! Four stars instead of five because I wasn't sure what finally made him realize what a treasure he had! Still a keeper that I read again once in a while.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pros & cons! Delectable entertainment!
Review: I must not deny that Something Wonderful is truly an entertaining and fufiling read. The only factor that I considered in not rating this book 5 stars is because of the sometimes-confusing plot threads. I was pleasantly surprised to find a Judith Mcnaught book in my mom's basement bookshelf for I had been reading Mills & Boons and was tiring of them and I had heard so much about JM books. What nearly put me off reading this (I'm glad I did) was the unimpressive summary of the book printed on the back cover (Corgi 1990 edition) and the thickness of it since I was more used to reading lighter romance.

Anyway, I discovered that I was soon engulfed in Miss Mcnaught's beautiful dreamworld and I could not put down the book. Believe me when I say I stayed up past 1 am to read it having started at 4 in the afternoon, stopping for a 1-hour TV-Dinner break. I was genuinely touched by the story but Jordon was a disappointing hero for the story.

I am not particularly impressed by his sudden disappearance and the brief explanation for it. I think the 1-year lapse in captivity was basically for Alexandra to mature, clever, but it inevidently makes Jordan's 1-year disappearance all the more unbelievable. That is one of the many flaws of the story that made it not deserving of 5 stars.

Sure enough with the loopholes in the plotline, to my amazement I found myself smiling at the hilarious antics of the characters, very rare in a romance novel. Even Alex's marriage to Anthony seem hilarious and I would certainly have liked to have more reaction from Jordan upon discovering how much Alexandra had changed from the innocent girl she was.

Judith McNaught is a truly talented author and I look forward to reading the next of her books I will be digging out from the basement. Remember, the 4 stars I have given are in credit to the story and not Miss mcnaught's ability to write. In my opinion, she writes fantastically! You must read this book and decide for yourself, don't take my word for it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Something Wonderful to review
Review: To be honest, this was the first book I read among JM's books and I fell in love with it completely. Although I wondered once or twice why Alexandra was just to nice to Jordan while he treated her like dirt...well at least, most of the time and I wondered why he married her! He had every right and ALL THE POWER to say no to that. Nevertheless, the book is highly recommendable...one of JM's best work if I would say so myself.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wonderful book---Makes you want to read Sequel immediately!!
Review: Judith McNaught does a wonderful job of depicting Alexandra and Jordan's story in Something Wonderful. Each character is well-developed and a reader can almost feel what the characters feel. Such writing is sensational to say the least. Not only that, there is plot to go along with the characters, so there's never a boring part. It gets better and better as the book comes to an end.

As the first book in a 2 part series, Something Wonderful offers more passion and angst. The beginning is interesting, and the ending is more emotionally gripping.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Something Wonderful Indeed!
Review: I dislike reviews that give away too much, so I will keep this simple. This is the first book by JM that I have read, but she has instantly become one of my favorite authors. This book delivers so many different emotional responses that you just have to turn the next page, dinner be damned! The aspect I enjoyed the most was the humor. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself laughing outloud! I don't think you'll be disappointed, I sure wasn't!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Something So-So
Review: Having resolved, after throwing Whitney My Love away in disgust, not to bother reading anything else by Judith NcNaught, I found this book in my large unread pile. Having now struggled against boredom to finish it, I can now say for certain that I'm definitely not among McNaught's fans.

I never, at any point in the story, found myself actually liking either Alexandra or Jordan - and liking the main characters is, of course, an essential requirement for enjoyment of a book. Both behaved stupidly - now, of course, stupid behaviour on the part of the principals is a standard component of romance novels, but this seemed to be excessive. What probably caused me to disengage a little from the story to begin with was the unbelievable plot development whereby Jordan actually married Alexandra in the first place. He was a *duke* - and a very arrogant, puffed-up one at that. She was a nobody, in his eyes. No-one would have believed that he could have married so far beneath him; that alone would have caused a scandal greater than any Alexandra's mother could have created. (Incidentally, just what happened to Alexandra's mother after the wedding? She's never heard of again!). In the circumstances which McNaught created, in which Alexandra's mother and uncle came and accused him of ruining her, Jordan would more likely have done one of three things. He might have ordered her family out of his house forthwith. He might have paid them off. Or he might, if he really felt responsible, have bribed some poor relation to marry her. Absolutely *no way* would he have married her himself.

But even later, McNaught did little to persuade me to like the book. The scenes in London after Alexandra was launched into Society were farcical. And the events surrounding Jordan's return were poorly written - as another reviewer has said, it's beyond credulity that there would have been so little discussion of what had happened to him. I can't believe that Alexandra would never have asked him to tell her about it, given her supposed feelings for him.

The murder plot and its resolution were totally ridiculous. The dénouement left me reeling in disbelief that McNaught expected me to swallow such a thin explanation. So, by that time, the resolution of the romance left me cold - and gaping in disbelief at Alexandra's near-resurrection, which was never explained.

Then there were the errors and inconsistencies. We're introduced to both Jordan and Alexandra in their youth at the start of the book: he is eighteen and she is thirteen, a five-year gap. Then we meet them again at the start of the story proper, and he's twenty-seven to her seventeen! (There was no clue whatsoever in the early scenes that they supposedly took place five years apart).

Then Alexandra saved Jordan's life, and he 'winces' at a small cut on her face. The man's just looked at a footpad with half his face blown off, and didn't bat an eyelid! Yet he 'winces' at a small cut on what he believes to be a teenage village boy - when boys are always involved in some rough-and-tumble and acquiring cuts and bruises by the dozen.

McNaught made a major error after Jordan's reported death: she made Anthony the Duke immediately. The legal position at the time where a married man died without leaving a son was that the man's wife was assumed to be pregnant until proven otherwise, and if she was pregnant, then everything was in limbo until the child was born and it was known whether it was a boy or a girl. There was no mention at all of any possibility that Alexandra might be pregnant, much less a notion of waiting before the title and lands passed to Anthony.

Oh, and even though Jordan was away for fifteen months, and he'd known Alexandra for, at most, a fortnight before his disappearance, she persisted in referring to her knowledge of him 'two years ago' - at which point she'd never met him! And why didn't she have any money of her own? McNaught talks about the Dowager and Anthony giving her a dowry, but the marriage settlements would have provided for her in the event of her husband's death in any case.

To me, this was no 'sweeping love story', and McNaught's talent as a writer pales in comparison to writers like Putney, Beverley and Balogh.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Something Wonderful is more than just wonderful!
Review: This is my second favorite book of Judith McNaughts and I have almost read every one of her's! Behind Paradise, it is the best,although in my opinion it closely ties with Until You. After reading Almost Heaven, I didnt think, I would like any more historical novels, that she wrote. But Something Wonderful pleasently surprised me! It was a pleasure to read, and so romantic! I would request it to anyone.


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