Whitney, My Love

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Summary: ENTERTANING AND SIMPLY A MUST READ
Review: I thought that "Whitney My Love" was one of Judith McNaught's best books. The story related exaclty to those years in London and the way a man would treat a woman he has choosen to marry. It was breathtaking and wonderful. Some people thought that the rape and whipping was awful but in those years this was a common occurrence between a husband and wife. I would recommend it to anyone. I have read it over and over again and I still cant't get enough of it.

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Summary: Prepare the gun
Review: If you haven't read the book,you ought to puke your brains out and die.This does sound a little crude,but I can't seem to find any other way to express my love for this book,with its wholly real and believeble characters.Clayton Westmoreland is the IDEAL hero and by far,no one matches up to him,and no one probably ever will.Whitney is a magnificantly expressive character with alot of spunk in her.This book,together with its splendid characters as well as Mcnaught's wholesome descriptions and narrations,makes the story come alive with each turn of every page.Thumbs and toes up!!!

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Summary: I wish it was a movie
Review: I thought it was the best the first time I read it and I still think its the best after having read countless more romance novels. There is just something that draws you back to it. I guess it would have to be the charming hero and the bewitching heroine. I just want to be Whitney. She has a zest for life that all of us have and I know that she is just a character in a book,but you come to love her and feel her joy and pain through out the book. Great job Judith McNaught!!!

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Summary: Clayton's endearing appeal....
Review: 'Whitney, My Love' was the first romance novel I ever read and has in fact made my expectations so high, that I feel no novel will live up to its magnitude. But perhaps the most endearing quality of the entire story was the character of Clayton Westmoreland. For some reason which I will never be able to explain, Clayton became the ideal image that all the other romance heroes I have read about have been forced to live up to. Is it dominating personality? His way of playing mind games while flashing his ever memorable sardonic smirk or his lazy handsome smile? Perhaps those of more brutish tastes, such as myself, are the ones who find Clayton so erotically perfect. Strong, fierce, noble, and captivating; only a few of the endearing qualities Clayton forever posesses.

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Summary: The perfect love through the centuries
Review: My very first book by this author. Incredibly true human emotions conveyed expertly through the protaganists' conversation. I could not put down the book. The Duke of Claymore is the epitome of the possible myriad of emotions that men could go through in any relationship. This should be THE book to read if you have not read any in your lifetime.

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Summary: There seems to be no other!
Review: Whitney My Love, is the most incredible love story that I have EVER read. When I read some of the other reviews I was appalled that anyone could take such a wonderful story and pick it apart. Judith McNaught was obviously telling a story in a time where male dominance was prevalent. The story would lose its appeal without Clayton being the strong male charater that he is. If you haven't read Judith McNaugth's "Whitney, My Love" please give it a chance... you will NOT be disapointed!

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Summary: A disappointment
Review: Although I enjoyed the other Judith McNaught books, Whitney, My Love really disappointed me. Clayton's physical abuse of Whitney was the biggest turn-off. What a brute! I really wanted to like the characters, but with their lack of emotional maturity, I just couldn't.

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Summary: Witty and full of humour in between fierce accusations....
Review: My first book from Judith's and I'm totally devoted to her right now.Full of witty conversations that keeps the pages turning fast. Unpredictable situations which intrudes into the life's of Whitney and her husband - Duke of Claymore. Well written and simply fabulous !!!!

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Summary: Elizabeth Bennet meets Scarlett O'Hara
Review: Am I alone in my belief that Whitney is the perfect hybrid of Scarlett O'Hara and Jane Austin's Elizabeth Bennet? Whitney has the spit-fire temper of Scarlett,loathing the proprieties of 19th Century England..but she also possesses the wit and confidence of Elizabeth Bennet. I fell in love with Whitney's character but was less favorable in my liking of Clayton. I wasn't convinced of his 'love' for Whitney, for if he truly loved her, would he be so quick to mistrust her and jump to such ludicrous assumptions? McNaught spends so much time inside his head and his torment, all the while tormenting the reader who is screaming at Clayton for being a total ass for not being upfront with the woman he 'loves'. Why doesn't she spend just as much time on the resolution? I think that is the part that should be analyzed in detail. What are his motivations behind being so quick to discredit her? Possession is confused with love in this book. Nevertheless, I fell in love with it and was the most amused I've ever been with any romance novel. Their heated/playful discussions has a way of sucking the reader into the plot. I was so excited when I realized that there were 60 pages left to the book after Whitney marries Clayton-only to discover that the pompous fool has to ruin my 60 pages of bliss with stupid, illogical assumptions of her faith and character. She doesn't even make him pay for such outrageous beliefs and instead takes him back w/o a struggle. McNaught failed to present Whitney's anger towards his false accusations. This baffled me because Clayton was so knowledgable and could almost read her mind (just like Rhett Butler) at the beginning of the tale...at a point where he doesn't completely know her character. But the last 200 pages, at a point where he has come to deeply know her and her love for him, were filled with his insecurities and he just didn't seem like the same man who we came to know at the start of the story. You'd think his trust would grow, not diminish. It just didn't make sense, McNaught could have thought of a better conflict than mistrust and easy forgiveness. Aside from all of this, I thought the writing style was brilliant and very vivid. The characters were so finely developed, they felt 3 dimensional rather than 2. I'm shocked that Hollywood hasn't grabbed this story. All in all it was a twisted and warped (the crop scene) affair, but I had such an affinity to this story I cannot deny it's brilliance.

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Summary: Not for the Gentle Reader
Review: This was my first Judith McNaught book and I'm afraid it will be my last. Though the characters were vivid and many parts of the scenery were lovely to imagine, the warped relationship between Whitney and Clayton really turned me off. For instance soon after they met Clayton whipped her with a riding crop and then comforted her while he made his advances. The worse part was when he raped her and she still wanted him. Their relationship was very dysfunctional and consisted of repeated false accusations between them that were unbelievable. The hero in this book was impossible for me to like.