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Summary: AMAZING!
Review: Judith sure does know how to keep a reader captivated! I laughed, cried and got angry right along with Whitney. This book makes you feel like you are living in the time and experiencing every emotion the characters are! I loved it.
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Summary: Engrossing but hero gets too mean for my taste
Review: This book is definitely worth reading and sweeps you away. However, in the beginining the hero is devoted beyond all reason and then toward the end he is way too mean -- so be forwarned. . . But still a great read.
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Summary: You'll have to read it!
Review: For me, in the first place, Whitney was an overly independent female. Her obsession to this paul fellow verged on the ridiculous, one would believe that after all the exposure she has had in the world of lords and ladies, she has finally developed a maturity and understanding in the ways of regency life. Ok ok...so the maturity things was quite strong a word, since she was a virgin at that time, but still. She should have realized how naive she was for pining for somebody who, after seeing her "bloom", promptly proceeds to court her. That alone should tell her that paul wouldn't have given her the time of the day, after all those years, if she was still gangly. But voila! When he discovers that she was the toast of the season, he steps up and shower her with avowals of affection. for clayton, I honestly find him too serious, and dull!Sorry for his fans, but for me, Stephen in the beginning of "Until You" was warmer than clayton here. What kind of duke would scour for the home of a woman he was attracted to like a doe-eyed fool? He was a duke, for heaven's sake. However did he get attracted to Whitney in the first place when she was so rude to him? Call me stupid but that's taking it a bit too far. She's very beautiful, yes, but her childish acts are simply uncalled for. What I didn't like in this story was when clayton raped whitney. Maybe if that didnt happen, I can consider this story okay! A week after I read this, I couldnt even remember what happened in the middle of the story. This was simply too long it dragged! These were only my opinions. If you went ballistic with the book, I'm happy enough since the author really is fantasic (at times).
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Summary: One of her Best works
Review: I absolutely loved this novel. I was very impressed with all the character development. Whitney is a strong female who you cant help but cheer for. Clayton is a man to fall in love with. It is a definite must read and must own for any collection.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read
Review: when i first got this book i wasnt a big reader and i was bored one day so i started to read it and i thought oh im not going to like it, but little did i know it was the start of a big book reader! once i got into the first 50 pages i was hooked, my cousin kept yellin at me to go out that day because it was so nice out, so i took the book out and read it, i was probably up till 2 in the morning reading it and finally finished it the next day. Since then i have read so many books but none quite compairs to "Whitney, my Love" i haven't wanted to reread books when i got them but i have read this book at least 10 times and sometimes i think about the scenes of it during the day. Judith McNaught is one of the best authors i have ever read. And i Know anyone who reads this book will be hooked!
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Summary: What a wonderful, emotionally stirring book!
Review: I just want to kick myself! I've waited over a year to read this amazingly fantastic book! Why? Because I was put off by the few negative reviews I had read. Finally, (thank goodness!) I checked it out of the library and began to read it figuring I wouldn't be wasting my money if if wasn't any good. Guess what? I'll be buying my very own copy to add to my favorite collection of books.
This book made me feel for everything that Whitney and Clayton had gone through. They made me laugh, they made me angry, they had me frustrated, they had me in such an emotional uproar and still I was rooting for them all the way!
I haven't felt this way about a book since McNaught's A Kingdon Of Dreams which I had read two years ago.
Both of these are keepers and a must read!
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Summary: Enjoy
Review: Judith McNaught, used the write combination on this book, each character was carefully webbed and analize so it would fit perfectly, giving you a book to enjoy. A book that can be enjoy over and over , making you live it every time.
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Summary: did not live up to its promise
Review: From all that I heard about this book, I thought it would be a wonderful regency romance, perhaps even as good as Jude Deveraux novel. However, it failed to live up to what the virtures that so many have seemed to favor it with. First of all, I failed to ever truly connect with Whitney. She tagged after a man that gave her no inclination that he was interested in her until she returned and seemingly wealthy, and then was hurt by the fact that he was so shallow. Then, she completely took for granted Nicki, who was my favorite character in the novel. He wanted the best for her, looking after her, protecting her, and it wasn't like he was a pansy. No, he was a strong man all on his own, and to me, was the most unselfish in his love. I hate it when authors feel that misunderstandings between the hero and the heroine are what make a novel good. In this novel, it was the author's favorite tool to create tension. You would think that Clayton, who supposedly truly loved Whitney would been willing to hear her side of a story rather than listening to a woman who was well-known to hate her. Instead of being a strong character that someone could connect to, Whitney became a sniveling creature willing to put up with the crap that Clayton kept dishing out b/c of his own insecurity and irrationality. If you want a book that is truly enjoyable with wonderful entertaining characters, then read the Duchess by Jude Deveraux, that is a book worth reading again and again.
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Summary: Whitney,my love
Review: B*A*D* .. Pathetic..doesn not even deserve 0 STArs ! i read about 10 chapter and skimmed a little. this is a disgrace to romance novels. Why, oh Why do romance authors believe that women like to read about a man who wants a woman so badly that he will go investigate her background, buy her, and think she will want to be with him. MOST WOMEN DO NOT LIKE THAT. Most women like men who are self-assured and will not stand in a woman's way if she loves someone else or even THINKS she loves someone else. They will be there as a friend and that's what makes a woman love a man.
There was one point in the book, i believe in the first 10 chapters where i gave up. when she made her debut back in england when clay saw her wearing a gown and laughing with paul. He thought something to the effect that "hell, he even paid for that gown" and basically because of that she should not be enjoying anyone's attention except his .. ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC !! if you want to read a true romance, from a lady who respects women, read Jude Deveraux's " A knight in Shining Armor" .. the hero of the book is exactly what a women will fall in love with.
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Summary: An almost brilliant study of an abusive relationship
Review: Judith McNaught has created a story of an abusive relationship that could have been taken from a psychology textbook (minus the sometimes romanticism).
Whitney , an attractive teenager feels like an ugly duckling although she simply is not fully developed, and her aunt who has come to England to take Whitney to Paris sees her possibilities at once. Brought up by a cold and unfeeling father who had wanted a son, Whitney was never able to fulfil his expectations. She therefore developed a deep minority complex. Consequently she falls in love with Paul who has never showed any interest in her and only sees her deficits -
exactly like her father. That sets up the pattern of her future relationships. Whitney unconsciously thinks herself unworthy to be loved, yet like every human being yearns to be loved. When she comes to Paris, blossoming in to a sophisticated and witty young lady, she meets Nicolas DuVille who would be the love of her life in a real romance. He has all the attributes of a regency hero. He is handsome, aristocratic, rich, urbane and sophisticated. Furthermore he is warm-hearted and caring. When Whitney has her debut, he sees that she gets a good start, and provides her with dancers by asking his friends for a favour. He deeply falls in love with Whitney, but never presses his love on her. He patiently waits for years, and offers her friendship instead of the love he would like to give her. But Whitney is unable to respond to true love which comes without abuse. Finally she finds her true match (although not her true love) in Clayton, Duke of Westmoreland. Just like her he thinks himself unworthy of love (although the book never gives a reason for that). Unable to approach Whitney openly for fear of being rejected by her ( a fear that never bothered the far more self-confident and mature Nicolas)he makes his first move at a masquerade (!) where he doesn't have to show his face or reveal his identity to her. The first encounter is a fiasco. The insecure duke therefore prefers to gain Whitney in an underhanded scheme buying her like a horse from her father. He approaches Whitney again, still hiding behind an emotional mask, not giving away his identity, and not revealing the business-like way he acquired her. The way he makes advances to her is typical. Emotionally to insecure to show his feelings for her, he prefers to sexually harass her. But this is exactly the sort of treatment Whitney is able to respond to. She fights her feelings in the beginning, but she fights an already lost battle. In one of her early encounters with the duke, he beats her up after a quarrel (in an earlier and far more consequent version of the book) and makes amorous advances to her after that.. Her destiny is now sealed. This is the ongoing tune of their relationship: The carrot or the stick. The abusive and dominating behaviour of the duke slowly destroys the spunk and feistiness of Whitney which signified her in the beginning. The hurting culminates when the duke who is mad with jealousy hauls away Whitney from a party to brutally rape her, then stops at last, but only to emotionally blackmail her to submitting to violent and painful sex which he uses as a means to punish her (which is even worse then ordinary rape). He shows all the traces of a borderline personality. Othello must have been one of his ancestors. But it doesn't need a cunning Iago to put Clayton into a cruel fit of rage. The grossest lie delivered by an archenemy of Whitney (something Clayton was fully aware of) will do nicely. After that he eases his bad conscience by sending a cheque and breaking of the engagement, unable to really face his behaviour. That's the coward's way out, but nobody seems to notice that, least of all the duke himself. After an arranged meeting Whitney doesn't believe the duke's declaration of love, and he doesn't show any patience with her plight (not accepting it as a part of his richly deserved comeuppance), but treats her with cold indifference instead. He doesn't need much time to come to terms with himself and detracts himself by pursuing another woman, only a few weeks after that fateful night. When Whitney learns about that, she practically throws herself at his feet. This is one of the saddest scenes in the book because it shows the full impact of the damage that his been done to Whitney in her childhood. Again having refused the faithful and loving Nicolas (he hasn't devoted himself to another woman in the meantime!), she loves the duke even more dearly for what he has done to her. But his is not the end of Whitney's self-inflicted torment. After they have married, they don't live happily ever after. The whole hurting and abuse starts all over again after Whitney has got pregnant. Due to a relatively harmless incident the duke concludes at once that Whitney has betrayed him shortly after he had brutally deprived her of her virginity (!). He makes plans to cruelly revenge himself on her by letting her love her child for one year and then take away the child from her. This sadism left me speechless. After a while he sees the errors of his ways, but is unable to reflect his real problem which remains still unsolved. He comes back to Whitney who awaits him with open arms. This is the end of this depressingly real sadomasochistic story which holds all the fascination of a bloody train accident. And this book is considered to be a romantic classic. A lot of women seem to be stuck in similar abusive patterns which I find quite alarming. As a dark tale of subjugation and emotional and physical abuse I would give it a five-stars review. As a romantic love story I can only give but one star.
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