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Summary: Not worth anyone's time.
Review: This book is a *pathetic* attempt at romance. The characters, the plot...absolutely nothing about the book even remotely captured my interest. I was so bored I didn't even read the whole thing...just skipped around. I am so never going to read another book by Dodd. The only other one I read, Someday My Prince, was terrible as well. Save your money and time and don't get this book.
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Summary: If only the fig leaf was larger...
Review: This was my first book by Christina Dodd, and I found it very entertaining. Eleven years earlier during Jane's first season she makes a terrible mistake, she falls in love with Ransom Quincy, the Marquess of Blackburn. Unfotunately he doesn't feel the same way about her. Jane is an artist and decides to sculpt a nude statue of Blackburn, with only a teeny weeny little fig leaf covering him. Another unfortunate occasion occours when everybody finds out about the statue and of course a scandal erupts, for not only did she sculpt Blackburn in the nude, she also sculpted him with such a small fig leaf. It doesn't help that later that week Jane is found at Blackburn's residence unchaperoned AND in a compromising position. She is ruined. Eleven Years Later. Jane comes back to London as a chaperone to her very, very beautiful neice Adorna. Blackburn is back in London after serving for England in the Napoleonic Wars. They meet again at a ball and sparks fly, not to mention a few tempers, since Jane has grown up quite a bit in the past 11 years. Blackburn is immediately smitten and they find themselves in another compromising position, only this time Blackburn agrees to marry Jane in order to save her reputation. A great book overall and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves the Regency period.
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Summary: Can't put it down
Review: This was my first Christina Dodd book and now I am addicted. Every word held me, making me want more. Dodd is a wonderful creative author. Each book she writes is a "cannot stop reading" pleasure.
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Summary: a facinating, intriguing and ultimatly delightfu read
Review: This was the first book i read by CD and it has started me on my quest to search for all that she has written. i have read countless romances, following my resent fixation with the era, and this was the ONLY one that captivated both the time and the theme. all other romances seem to place modern day heroines in the past, dressing up twentheith century hard ball vixens in victorian dresses, with only physical attraction between the main charecters. in this book, you find the calm, poised reserveness of the heroine much closer to the truth of the time. the small details, such as the walk around the ball room the first time the main charecters are reunited and the scence where Jane admits she cannot scream, she is too reserved are brilliant. brought together with histerical conversation between Ransom's sister and her suiter and Jane's vain attemptes to understand exactly WHY the stautue she sculpted was so embarresing this plot is made strong and enticing, the charecters all the more real and passionate for the emphasis on their charecteristics and not their physical attributes. Jane strength is represented through out the book by her refusal to be mindlessly wooed by the dashing gentleman and her love put to the ultimte test when sha is betrayed. Ransom's charecter is sculpted and refined throughout the book, with significant flashbacks to show how his shalow and boring chrecter was reshaped and redefined. his love is undeniably proven when he, the Lord Blackburn, gets down on his knees in the dirt and beggs forgivness of his beloved. this book is a must read!
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Summary: Delightful !
Review: What a delightful read. This was my first Christina Dodd book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Her witty reparte between the characters made the story fly by. I couldn't put it down. Thank you for a good time.
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Summary: Fun story
Review: What a fun story. This was my first Christina Dodd book but it won't be my last. This is a fun story about a young lady who is an artist who during her first season in London is acutally shamed out of completing the season by a huge scandal caused by one of her pieces of art work. After all these years she is back in London to sponsor her neices season but, the old scandal is not gone. Neither is her infatuation of Ransom (part of the old scandal) who takes one look at her and remembers her quick quickly. Jane by the way doens't understand why her wonderful statue made Ransom so mad all those years ago she thought it looked quite grand. It is a rather funny part of the book when you find out the real reason ... Ransom's older sister is also a very charming, meddling, doens't take any ..., kind of character.
This is a fun story with another strong woman character who does not do what the man necessarially wants. She has to much of a free spirit to let that happen.
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Summary: Fun story
Review: What a fun story. This was my first Christina Dodd book but it won't be my last. This is a fun story about a young lady who is an artist who during her first season in London is acutally shamed out of completing the season by a huge scandal caused by one of her pieces of art work. After all these years she is back in London to sponsor her neices season but, the old scandal is not gone. Neither is her infatuation of Ransom (part of the old scandal) who takes one look at her and remembers her quick quickly. Jane by the way doens't understand why her wonderful statue made Ransom so mad all those years ago she thought it looked quite grand. It is a rather funny part of the book when you find out the real reason ... Ransom's older sister is also a very charming, meddling, doens't take any ..., kind of character.
This is a fun story with another strong woman character who does not do what the man necessarially wants. She has to much of a free spirit to let that happen.
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Summary: HOT, HOT ROMANCE!
Review: Wow, this is a great story about a sheltered spinster who sculpts the man she secretly admires--except that the nude, life-sized statue has a teeny-tiny fig leaf. And he's understandably furious! The way they finally get together is not to be missed. I highly recommend this book.
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