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Summary: the perfect love story
Review: one night for love is a story about a lily doyle, the daughter of a common soldier, who falls hopelessly in love with her fathers commanding officer, neville who is also an earl.after the death of her father they marry and the next day she is shot abouve the heart and theought to be dead.she is later caputured and used for her body by spanish partisans.after a year and a half of captivity, lily makes her way back to the home of her husband only to find him at his own wedding.this is a great book because it shows how these two people from comepletely different worlds can come together and work it out.
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Summary: What a dull book!
Review: Since the couple are already married, and have already made love, there is none of the tension involved in a genuine romance. She learns to change herself to be worthy of him, the supposed villains get their comeuppance, and the whole issue of her having been raped repeatedly for seven months by a Spanish partisan is swept under the carpet neatly. The whole lost identity and found father is just absurd and the long long cast of characters and the maiden auntie's romance thrown in for good measure is just dull. These characters all look as though they are intended for spins offs, we get so much detail, but the essence of romance is the couple meeting and falling in love. Not knowing her for 4 years and marrying her to protect her virtue, then losing her on the battle field and forgetting she ever existed until she turns up again. There is no sensuality or joy in this book and the hero and heroine are both spineless.
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Summary: Too predictable
Review: Spare me. This one was just too predictable. I could have told you what was going to happen from the first page.
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Summary: Not my favorite by this author
Review: There was so much sadness in this book that it was never quite overcome by joy (for me). And the obstacles they had to face are not convincingly overcome; this reader is still wary of the happiness of their future. Oh, it will be happy, but there is so much buried still to be dealt with at some future point in time; it's inevitable. For example, her apparent inability to conceive was never resolved.I never fully warmed up to Lily, and many times I wavered as to whether I wanted her or Lauren to wind up with Neville. But he so obviously loved her. I have no idea why some readers didn't like Neville; I thought he was great except for his name. But I was more enchanted with his aunt, Elizabeth, than I was with Lily. And until I read another review, I had no idea that this Lauren is the heroine in A Summer to Remember, possibly my favorite Mary Balogh book. Now I want to reread that one right away. But Balogh's gift for getting to the emotional heart of a story comes through, making this book worth the effort of getting through her sometimes plodding prose. I debated giving this book 3 stars, but I just couldn't do it. 2 & 3/4, yes, but not three.
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Summary: Wonderful Regency Romance
Review: This book is one of her best. An elderly friend of mine who had a recent stay in hospital asked me to bring some quality romance books for her to read. I just put "One Night for Love", "Indiscrete", "Irresistible", "Christmas Beau" and several other Mary Balogh romances into a bag and took them in. You should have seen the look on her face as I emptied my Baloghs onto the bedside table. Whoever said that romance was dead?
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Summary: Read any other Mary Balogh book but this one!
Review: This book was pretty bad. Granted, it's probably still much better than many other romances because it was written by Mary Balogh, and I have not been disappointed by any other book she's ever written, so my expectations were very high. Several other reviews detail why this book doesn't work, but mostly I found it a very frustrating read and hard to see why Lily would continue to like her 'husband'. Even though this is now part of a series, I would recommend skipping it. Get "A Summer to Remember" instead.
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Summary: unpredictable + touching
Review: This is an excellent book. Whenever you thought everything was to be wrapped up into a nice little package another twist in the plot appeared. Great book!!!
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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: This was a very good book to read, kept interest all the way through,and made you feel as if you were one of the charavters. ..GREAT! If you are looking for other romance novels that truly touch your heart, you might try, Stolen Moments by Barbara Jeanne Fisher.I intended to give this book a quick read, but I got so caught up in the story that I couldn't put the book down. From the very beginning, I was fully caught up in the heart-wrenching account of Julie Hunter's battle with lupus and her growing love for Don Lipton. This love, in the face of Julie's impending death, makes for a story that covers the range of human emotions. The touches of humor are great, too, they add some nice contrast and lighten things a bit when emotions are running high. I've never read a book more deserving of being published. It has rare depth. Julie's story will remind your readers that life and love are precious and not to be taken for granted. It has had an impact on me, and for that I'm grateful. "Stolen Moments " which is reminiscent of "Love Story" is written with so much sensitivity that it made me want to cry. Like"Love Story" it is about a dying woman who has found true love. It is the love story of the nineties." It is a spellbinder. One I got reading I could hardly put it down. what terrific writing, Barbara has an exceptional gift!
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Summary: A story of overcoming diversity
Review: Two people from opposite sides of the tracks, having known each other from a distance, or thrown into a marriage. They appear meant for each other, but it lasts only one night. Its war time and an ambush the day following the wedding leads Major Neville Wyatt to believe his wife of one day, Lily, is dead. Almost two years later, he has gotten on with his life and his new wedding day is interrupted by Lily's unexpected return. She looks like a begger and is obviously uneducated, but Neville has only eyes for her. The rest of this warm and tender story involves how love wins over all obstacles. A great heartwarming story.
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Summary: STOP the wedding, he's already married...to ME!
Review: Wouldn't that be a shocker...Major Neville Wyatt marries Lily Doyle, the daughter of a fatally wounded sergeant, on the battlefield to assure her protection. As his wife, she will be given respect if captured (at least that's what he's been told). Her life has been that of following the army with her father and Neville has had a secret desire for her for a long time now. The following morning during a surprise raid, Lily is shot, thought to be dead, while Neville is wounded and moved out of enemy lines. Neville returns home and 18 months later he is going through with the wedding/planned marriage to a woman, Lauren (A Summer To Remember) whom he grew up with- was like a sister to him and chosen by his family. He has not mentioned the marriage to Lily for that would only bring pain to his family and is "dead and buried." He thinks. As the bride prepares to join her groom down the aisle, Lily runs in, making the announcement that he is already married to her! Neville learns that for the past 1 1/2 years Lily has been a prisoner/forced-mistress to a spanish military officer, who just recently was forced to release her. The wedding to stopped, explanations made- but do they go from here? Lily doesn't have the background to be the wife of the Earl of Kilbourne. It is a wonderful regency romance to be followed with A SUMMER TO REMEMBER.
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