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Summary: What's All The Fuss About???
Review: I know this is one of Julia's earlier works, but this book is far from being the charming read that others claim it is. While "Henry" the heroine is likeable enough, sometimes she's just plain irritating. She has a way of prattling on and says the most random and insipid things at the most initimate moments, that it makes you want to scream! I know this is supposed to be a part of her charm, but it's mostly just annoying.Dunford the hero is--well, bland. We're told he's charming and a bit of a rake, but we never really see it, so he's not terribly convincing as a hero. I also agree with some of the other reviewers in that the book was about 50 pages too long. I didn't even read those last pages because the story naturally ended when he proposed to her. All in all, this is not a terrible read, but from what I understand, the author has better written and more enjoyable books to chose from.
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Summary: What's All The Fuss About???
Review: I know this is one of Julia's earlier works, but this book is far from being the charming read that others claim it is. While "Henry" the heroine is likeable enough, sometimes she's just plain irritating. She has a way of prattling on and says the most random and insipid things at the most initimate moments, that it makes you want to scream! I know this is supposed to be a part of her charm, but it's mostly just annoying. Dunford the hero is--well, bland. We're told he's charming and a bit of a rake, but we never really see it, so he's not terribly convincing as a hero. I also agree with some of the other reviewers in that the book was about 50 pages too long. I didn't even read those last pages because the story naturally ended when he proposed to her. All in all, this is not a terrible read, but from what I understand, the author has better written and more enjoyable books to chose from.
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Summary: I liked it.
Review: I liked this book. Could of been a bit spicier. Oh well.
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Summary: This was my favorite
Review: I loved this book, Ill never forget the first time I read one of Julia Quinn's books, I looked at the back cover and saw that face of a little girl ...and thought I am getting very old, how can she write like my old favorites (Rosemary Rogers etc.), and having not read in over 10 years, I thought no way can this girl write...and she proved me wrong, in every one of her books...I LOVE her ... I fell in love with them all.. In addition, after reading every book she writes ...I look at that /sweet/smug smile of hers on the back cover and smile back at her ...and think...life is still good, I still get my romance ... and it is even better then before. Cant judge a book by its cover or um back cover that is. *wink*
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Summary: Lovely
Review: I really like Henry, there was an honesty about her that you don't see very often in romance novels at the moment. She really was honest in how she felt and when she was wrong, she knew it and admitted it. That is so refreshing. I held off reading this book for quite a while because I was reluctant to do the "country bumpkin ward falls in love with guardian" thing but it was more than that, their friendship is believable and you can see their closeness developing into something more. A very good read not too heavy.
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Summary: Hilariously Funny
Review: I thought that this book was great , the male character had charm and a very humerous streak in him. The herione went through alot of trouble to get rid of him only to fall madly in love with him. This books was 5 stars all the way, but take my word and read it, it's very funny.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK
Review: I'm a big fan of Julia Quinn books. I'm usually iffy about reading novelists 1st books printed. Here Bridgerton series are the best though!!! I've read them all. The MINX was GREAT! I thought it very sexually tensing with her gaurdian Dunford being attracted to his tomboy yet very beautiful ward. GREAT READ!!! Highly recommended. It was actually VEry funny also in the beggining when she was working in the Pig Pen and had him busting his rump. LOL you'll have to read it to know what I'm talking about. It had me laughing outloud.
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Summary: Funny and Enduring, You Won't Want to Put it Down!
Review: I'm not quite so sure that I would agree with anyone that the last 50 pages were unnesessary. I personally enjoyed the book in it's entirety. I look at it this way, you wouldn't believe the stupid things that my husband and I find to argue about and how personally we can take things sometimes. If we had been using half the sense our mothers gave us when we were born, we would have never gotten ourselves into such messes in the first place. Like: "I actually believed that spam email was from another woman!" (This has acutally happened before!!) And my husband would really believe "that annonomous 'someone has a crush on you' was from my boyfriend I keep stashed away under the bed!" (This too has happened to us.) So, to be honest, I related Dunford's and Henry's feelings during the conflict of the last 50 pages. I thought it brought added excitement to the book personally. As always Julia Quinn has brought her readers a wonderful book that will have you smiling and giggling for days after you've read the last page. Her stories are so enduring and funny, you can't help but remember each character as if you really know them and share their dreams, passions, pain, sorrow and laughter. Another MUST read... thanks Julia!
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Summary: delightful read
Review: I've read all of Julia Quinn's novels except "Everything But the Moon". I thought nothing could top the Bridgerton series, but I seriously, seriously, seriously enjoyed this book. "Splendid", "Dancing at Midnight", and "Minx" are connected through the characters, but in my opinion "Minx" is the best of the three. It follows the story of the orphaned Ms. Henrietta Barrett who by a twist of fate ends up as Dunford's ward. Henry's a spunky girl and quickly has Dunford's character tied up in knots. There are a lot of hilarious situations and heartwarming moments, although, like another reviewer mentioned, the whole thing with Dunford's mistress could have been avoided, but I guess Quinn wanted a keener emotional arc in her story, thus this segment in the novel. "Minx" is only as wonderful if you have read the previous stories of Alex and Emma, and John and Belle. It's heart-warming to revisit old friends from other novels, something that Ms. Quinn does frequently in her novels. I highly recommend this book,as well as the rest of Ms. Quinn's work. She combines wit and humor with sensuality and sweet romantic moments. Her characters are believable, and British aficionados will enjoy the Shakespearean and literature of the time references.
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Summary: Passion and Wit
Review: In her third novel-the completion of an entertaining trilogy-Julia Quinn follows the fortunes of William Dunford, a warm, urbane and handsome gentleman who inherits a small estate in Cornwall from a distant relative.
Traveling from his home in London to survey the rustic paradise, Dunford meet Henrietta "Henry" Barrett, the highly independent and unconventional beauty who's been virtually running the estate for the past six years (since she was fourteen). Wearing men's clothing and always boldly speaking her mind, Henry is about as far from a ton lady as one can get. Henry has already determined that the new owner and her new guardian is a threat to her happy, independent life in Cornwall, so she cooks up every scheme possible to get rid of him. What she doesn't count on is his goodness-his warmth, integrity and tolerance-that makes her fall in love. Dunford is stunned by Henry's genuineness and by the force of his feelings for her-he never dreamed such emotion was possible for him. But just when he's about to make her his own, he finds out that he's her legal guardian-and thus obliged to give her the feminine training and brilliant season in London that will attract endless male admirers. The sexual and emotional tension between Dunford and Henry is explosive, and it's a pleasure watching how they eventually unite. Their final conflict is particularly moving. Quinn has written another witty and entertaining novel with enough steam to whisk the reader breathlessly to the end. Already loads of fun, Julia Quinn gets better with each subsequent book.
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