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Summary: It's an okay book!
Review: I read the hardcovered version of Whitney, My Love just recently. I find it okay, but not as superb as a lot of people are saying. A small part of me, wished that the heroine just hooked up with Du Ville. It has a lot of twist. I just couldn't believe that after receiving so much pain and agony from the Duke, she still loved him. I must say this is a good book, but it just became highly reveiewed, that it was a very, very good book, propbably that's the reason why a lot of peopel said it was their favorite. It's a nice book to read, so read it, but please be acurate when giving a review about this book.
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Summary: Definitely no "page turner"
Review: I read my first McNaught book, Almost Heaven, a few months ago. It was okay. Not terribly exciting, but a 3 star. So I bought another. Whitney, my Love was supposed to be an excellent book, great love story. Well, I have to agree with "unearthly calm" who reviewed this book. This book could hardly hold my attention, but I kept reading, hoping it would get better. It didn't. The duke was a pompous....jerk. First, he put her over his knee and spanked her? I couldn't believe it! Then later, he ripped the clothes from her and raped her? Where is the romance in spanking the heroine because she was bad then later raping her in a fury? THEN, he sends her a check and says more or less, have a nice life? Her problem is, after all this abuse, she still actually loves him and begged him to take her back? Truthfully, after the spanking, I was hoping she'd hightail it to Paris and hook up with DuVille. But she married him and he redeemed himself a tiny bit, till he squashed the baby gown. How disappointing. McNaught also goes into way too much detail about everything to where it is incredibly boring. I like a light, fun, fast paced read, like Julia Quinn or a real romantic story like Julia London writes, where when you reach the end, you wish it wouldn't end, unlike this one, where you're halfway through, wishing it WOULD end.
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Summary: Love it...
Review: This book is my first Judith McNaught's book that i have read...and i love it very much.Since then I have read her many books that related with this book and they are so fastinating. I feel very sad when there is no book like those anymore... well, i think she writes well but her other style of book is not my liking (except Double Standards). I will always treasure this book coz it's the book that lead me to romance... and happy too.
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Summary: One of the best I've read
Review: I thought that this book was one of McNaught's best. It totally capitvated me.I couldn't put it down and spent half the night with it. This was the third book that I've read by McNaught and I'll admit that it was not my favorite but it was still very poignant and heartwrenching. This is a book you can laugh and cry to. As for the raping and spanking scene, if you don't like it skip it. It's quite smiple infact it's not impossible to do.
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Summary: How far we've come
Review: It's when I see a pageful of reviews like this that I feel really sad. I admit that I like romance where the hero is decisive and occasionally ruthless but there is a very clear line between excusable masculine pride and complete bloody-mindedness.This novel had a lot of potential - beautiful heroine, beautiful men surrounding her, beautiful setting. Ms. McNaught displays a talent for physical descriptions and steamy sex scenes. But I began to feel acutely uncomfortable about halfway through the book. It's not love and it's not right when you feel the need to discipline your future bride by beating her, raping her or otherwise abusing her. One could point out here that I am being unfair in expecting a virile 19th century man to act like a sensitive 90's man. That may be true but here is the main point - it makes me really depressed to think that such a large number of educated women consider this a story of true love and are content to overlook its flaws. Go ahead and read this book - the notion of a man whipping his beloved into submission may titillate you and the sickeningly cloying ending may cause your cups of joy to run over. All I know is that this book almost made me physically sick with its twisted notion of love.
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Summary: Can't get enought of it!
Review: This book is soooooo good! JM brings you back in time and makes you feel as if you're in the book yourself as an observer. Clayton is a fabulous hero and Whitney is really witty, charming and bold. It was so romantic and sweet and funny. When I finished it (in 1 day), I didn't want it to end so I read it again. All of JM's regency books are great and her writing style is very good. Those Westmorelands are one hunky bunch. Read A Kingdom of Dreams followed by Whitney My Love and Until You. You also have Once and Always, Almost Heaven and Something Wonderful. What I really like about JM's regency novels are that the characters reappear in the books. Go buy all of it and you'll get hooked!
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Summary: A Treasure
Review: This was the first Judith McNaught book I ever read, and it is still my favorite. Whitney is one of my all-time favorite leading ladies. It is rare to have the opportunity to grow up with the heroine in a romance novel. JM allows the reader to do just that in this book. The characters evolve from the beginning to the end. Ms. McNaught does an incredible job of bringing their personalities to life and really drenches the storyline with emotion and intensity. Once you pick this book up, you won't put it down until you reach the last page. Guaranteed to make you laugh, and cry, along with the characters you are reading about.
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Summary: This is the 1800's remember?
Review: I read the original Whitney and fell in love with it.I eagerly anticipate every one of JM's books to be published. Alot of the reviewers have a problem with the fact that Clayton spanked and raped Whitney, but remember, in those times, women were regarded as property not people. Also, can't we just say that Clayton was so blinded and scared of his love for Whitney ( since he had never felt that way before) that he wasn't thinking straight at the times? I'm not saying that his behavior is good, but let's not forget that this is fiction! I think that we are all thinking like women in the year 2000, and that's fine, but things were vastly different then. I think that Whitney was lucky that she only got spanked by Clayton after putting him on that horse, I don't know if I'd be that magnanomous.
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Summary: Original and extremely captivating!
Review: I bought this book just because it was on sale and I just FALLED IN LOOOOOVE! This is one of the best ( if is not THE BEST) romances I have ever read. The end of the book was surprising because it didn`t ended like "and they got married and they lived happyly ever after". No! The book continued the story of the couple after the marriage. When I was almost finishing it, I didn`t want it to finish! And when I finished, at 5 am, I wanted to rush to the book store and buy every single book that she had published. I also read ONCE AND FOREVER but it was not as good as this one. I will keep this book forever...
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Summary: Always a pleasure
Review: "Whitney, My Love" will always be one of my favorite JM stories, though my heart will always belong to Matthew Farrell of "Paradise". I thought the new ending was unnecessary, but interesting. I, for one, can see where Clayton would be so furious over the baby incident because we all know that men tend to be more compulsive than woman and way more stubborn, too, and I did not see a need to go into more depth about his "reactions". The "treasure box" scene was cute, but I would have like for JM to go into more depth about the other Westmoreland Brides, especially Clayton's mother, Alicia, even though there were no stories written about them and I would have liked for JM to focus more on Whitney and Clayton instead of the new characters she brought in. When I bought the new edition, I had been hoping I'd get to read more about them. To be honest, I didn't like the new ending as much as I liked the heart-warming simplicity of the original. So, overall, the new "Whitney, My Love" was interesting, but I don't think anything will ever compare to the original.
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