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Summary: A very enjoyable read!!
Review: I will admit that this book started out very slow and did not capture my attention. As a matter of fact I had started reading it a few months ago and quickly got bored after the first few pages and set it aside.
I think there were a few other things that could have been better in this book, I must agree with the other reviewers that said that the pain and turmoil that plaged Clay just really wasn't there or felt deep enough by the reader... although I will admit that she did an excellent job at the end!!! I loved it!! It had me in tears and completely made up for where, in my opinion, it had been lacking else where.
Rating:
Summary: A very enjoyable read!!
Review: I will admit that this book started out very slow and did not capture my attention. As a matter of fact I had started reading it a few months ago and quickly got bored after the first few pages and set it aside.
I think there were a few other things that could have been better in this book, I must agree with the other reviewers that said that the pain and turmoil that plaged Clay just really wasn't there or felt deep enough by the reader... although I will admit that she did an excellent job at the end!!! I loved it!! It had me in tears and completely made up for where, in my opinion, it had been lacking else where.
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Summary: :)one of the best of Joan Johnston!
Review: It's a page-turner. Once you started reading the first page you couldn't stop reading it until you reach the very end of the book. I recommend this book to all romance readers!
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Summary: Fun yet suspenseful
Review: Joan Johnston's four book series -- The Captive, After the Kiss, The Bodyguard, and The Bridegroom -- are fun, romantic and steamy. The woman is always a bit too smart for her own good and winds up in an amusing yet dangerous situation... and this book is no exception. This book was recommended to me by a friend after I became interested in reading romances; my requirements for a romance include it be historical, have a sassy female, and an English or Scottish setting. This has all three, and was a wonderful read.
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Summary: Funny but Heart breaking
Review: Oh I just loved this book for the feelings that were discribed in it. I laughed, cried and felt sorry for them both. The sad story about his wife and first unborn son was uncontrolled emotions. I laughed like crazy with all her ideas on the right husband list. I enjoyed this book very mush and still don't want to put it down after having it for two years. I even stolled it from my mothers book collection to have this one. I hope you enjoy the turn around of event in this book. If you ever feel sorry for yourself this would help a lot.
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Summary: I liked it.
Review: Ok. Yes, the plot was a bit farfetched at times. And yes, the characters weren't perfect. I also admit that the ending could have been drawn out a bit more but, alas, all of a sudden it was just there and they all lived happily ever after. This is a romance novel not a work of literary genius. That's not to say that there are not romance novels that can't achieve that status, but that's not what one really looks for in a romance novel. We want romance and this book has it. For all its faults, I liked it. I liked the characters regardless of the semi-weak characterazation. It was enjoyable and romantic, just the way I like my romance novels to be.
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Summary: great, passed it along to let others enjoy!
Review: Thanks for a great book. Picked it up and thoroughly enjoyed it. Passed it along so my mom and the rest of the girls in my family will enjoy it.
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Summary: STUPID !!!!!!!
Review: THE ONLY THING I CAN REALLY SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK, WAS THAT IT WAS STUPID. (DONT WASTE YOUR TIME).
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This book begins okay, and it's interesting to meet the characters from the previous books in the series, but about halfway through I began to get really bored. The hero is far too indecisive, the plot comes undone very quickly and the ending is so abrupt and contrived it left me shaking my head in disbelief. Ms. Johnston appears to have a hard time writing about characters who really have a dark side to them - Carlisle could have been much better constructed, but his angst seems weak. Its also very difficult to make the hero from one book the apparant villain in the next (Blackthorne), and we never do understand Cedric Ambleside's motives in this story. Too contrived, particularly the ending, and not enough real characterization.
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Summary: DON"T WASTE YOUR MONEY
Review: This book is an insult to readers' intelligence. We are asked to believe that a man, deeply scarred by his own illegitimacy would conspire to have the marriage of the woman he loves annulled. It's done--and in record time, without the knowledge of her father, a duke, or anyone else. Does the author not know that annulments were rare and time-consuming to obtain, that having a marriage annulled (on trumped up grounds that the husband was a bigamist) would make the daughter illegitimate? Would any mother stand for it? Would the man who instigated this and is so conscious of his own illegitimacy-- contemplate it? As for him, the sudden discovery that, instead of being the illegitimate son of a whore he is the grandson of a nobleman, that too, strains credulity, not to mention the circumstances which forced his mother to prostitute herself. Finally, why the villain of the piece should wait 12 years to revenge himself on those he once wronged and then attempt several times in a row to murder them instead of continuing to hide is beyond me. But then, I like my stories to have a modicum of logic. One star is as low as one can get with this ranking system. I would have given the book a raspberry.
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