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Summary: A Joy to Read - Hard to Put Down - GREAT!
Review: A wonderful, happy story (at least most of it was happy) with characters you fell in love with. Even the "bad" guys earned our understanding so there was no real "evil" person. I loved this book. It was one of those "hard-to-put-down" stories - great from start to finish. One thing I really enjoyed was the wedding. For once an author just didn't say, "....and so they were married...." Instead, we get the wedding details, what they wore, more importantly, how the characters felt, etc. This book was a joy to read.
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Summary: A Joy to Read - Hard to Put Down - GREAT!
Review: A wonderful, happy story (at least most of it was happy) with characters you fell in love with. Even the "bad" guys earned our understanding so there was no real "evil" person. I loved this book. It was one of those "hard-to-put-down" stories - great from start to finish. One thing I really enjoyed was the wedding. For once an author just didn't say, "....and so they were married...." Instead, we get the wedding details, what they wore, more importantly, how the characters felt, etc. This book was a joy to read.
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: All of the people in this book are fully explored, I enjoyed reading about their fobiles as well as their strengths. The Love story is told so beautifully, it was a bittersweet experience.
Each scene flowed into the next and explained the feelings of all the main characters.
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: All of the people in this book are fully explored, I enjoyed reading about their fobiles as well as their strengths. The Love story is told so beautifully, it was a bittersweet experience.
Each scene flowed into the next and explained the feelings of all the main characters.
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Summary: Excellent...Indulge & be Delighted.!!!
Review: Another truly enjoyable tale..Having read another of the Free Fellow League Series, Merely the Groom..I had to buy and read this book..and am thankful I did!!!..what a great story, Alyssa, and Griffin are the perfect foil to each other. I was thoroughly entranced and look forward to Ms.Lee's third of the series..Hardly A Husband.. Indulge & be Delighted !!!
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Summary: Great story!
Review: As boys, three young men form a Regency version of the "he man woman haters club", the Free Fellows. They are titled boys who vow to defend the country, live bravely, and never marry, unless they must. If they must, then they will absalutely not fall in love.Griffin Abernathy, one of the members, finds that before he goes off to war, he must break the vow of non marriage, or face dire consequences from his father. Therefore, he marries a young woman under a similiar pressure from her mother, one who he is sure he will never love. Unfortunately, Alyssa puts a severe test to this vow, but he escapes to war before he can fall completely for her. Two years later, Griffin returns home, scarred by the horrors of what he has seen to find his bride a woman he can easily love, too easily. He is sure that she deserves better than him, and is shamed by his vow to not love her. Readers will have to wait and find out if he will allow his wife's healing love to touch his heart or not. ***** This is a magical story that evokes visions of THE FOUR FEATHERS . The way that love can sneak up and surprise you and heal even the deepest scars is well depicted. *****
Reviewed by Amanda Killgore
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Summary: Great story!
Review: As boys, three young men form a Regency version of the "he man woman haters club", the Free Fellows. They are titled boys who vow to defend the country, live bravely, and never marry, unless they must. If they must, then they will absalutely not fall in love. Griffin Abernathy, one of the members, finds that before he goes off to war, he must break the vow of non marriage, or face dire consequences from his father. Therefore, he marries a young woman under a similiar pressure from her mother, one who he is sure he will never love. Unfortunately, Alyssa puts a severe test to this vow, but he escapes to war before he can fall completely for her. Two years later, Griffin returns home, scarred by the horrors of what he has seen to find his bride a woman he can easily love, too easily. He is sure that she deserves better than him, and is shamed by his vow to not love her. Readers will have to wait and find out if he will allow his wife's healing love to touch his heart or not. ***** This is a magical story that evokes visions of THE FOUR FEATHERS . The way that love can sneak up and surprise you and heal even the deepest scars is well depicted. *****
Reviewed by Amanda Killgore
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Summary: Wonderful simple love story
Review: Griffin and Alyssa are a wonderful couple whom you immediately fall in love with. I've read the entire series by Rebecca Hagan Lee and they are all excellent simple regency romances. There are no convoluted plots, the sensualness is not overblown, and the two characters are simply two charming people that come together to save each other.
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Summary: deep regency romance
Review: In 1793, single aristocratic men behave badly by forming the Free Fellows League based on two principles of natural order that males should not have to wed until necessary to sire an heir and to never fall in love with your wife. By 1810 Viscount Griffin is a card-carrying member over the ire of his father who demands marriage or else. Griffin needs a spouse quickly while Lady Alyssa Carollton shares his sentiment on marriage, but needs a husband to keep her mother off his back. Griffin and Alyssa wed with each vowing to not love though the honeymoon is bliss. Griffin goes off to war, but upon his return feels the guilt of a survivor when so many died. He wants to continue his vow to the shattered by the war Free Fellows League, but also needs Alyssa to help him cope with his nightmarish demons. Soon he realizes the foolishness of his pledge as he falls in love with his wife, but she refuses to believe him and hides her own deep feelings. Though Griffins' obstinacy becomes irritating, readers will appreciate this deep regency romance due to a strong cast (including the lead male). The story line combines sexual tension with deep angst especially with Griffin suffering from post battle syndrome. Alyssa is a delightful courageous person who as the tale's anchor ensures fans receive a superb novel. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: What went wrong?
Review: Plot description on this book's Amazon.com page. I really wanted to like this book, but I could just about finish it. Why? I expected these men--of the Free Fellows League to be older. The heroine is in her second season, so I assume she is about 19. None of these characters worked for me. They all seemed to be self-involved and only concerned for the now. He gets wounded and comes back from the war--and whine, whine, depression. The author could have done so much more with these characters.
At the start of this book the friends are at school and make this pledge-to form the Free Fellows League complete with rules. Talk about not growing up--just about the entire last half of the book is about why our hero can't love his wife because of some dumb rules he made up as a teenager. And also because he "isn't good enough for her". I realize that the reader has to take into consideration the timeframe of this book, but enough already. Too much angst, whining and boredom.
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