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Summary: This is my favorite Lisa Kleypas book....
Review: ...and I've read them all except for her earlier books (before 1990) ONLY because I haven't been able to get my hands on them yet! Actually, all her books are great. This continues on the exciting Vallerand family but you don't have to read them in sequence to enjoy it. The love scenes are sensual and all throughout the book! That is one of the best things about Ms. Kleypas. She spoils us with wonderful and frequent heated, steamy romance. The two main characters who are destined for each other are very likeable and he wants her to want him as much as he wants her. I really like this aspect. Him wanting her more rather than the other way around as is usual in most romance novels. There is also a good plot and just when you think you have it all figured out, she'll throw you a curve ball just to make sure you're on your toes. It also reads very smoothly. All her books are well written and I went thru all her books too quickly. I wish she had written more. I look foward to reading them all over again. Before her, I never had the desire to keep any romance books permanently but you will want to keep this book after you read it. This book affected me the same as a nice glass of wine would have; warm, happy, content, and craving another one exclaiming disappointed disbelief that it's gone already.
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Summary: Only With Your Love
Review: Although the story was good, I found Celia a bit annoying. She kept contradicting her words with her actions, and acting too impulsively, putting in jeopardy the lives of those she claimed to love. The back cover blurb reads: "The newlywed bride of a Creole aristocrat, Celia Vallerand prays for deliverance from the bloodthirsty brigands who abduct her from a New Orleans-bound schooner. Though she believed her beloved husband slain and despairs for her own life, the shy French beauty fears above all the dashing privateer who pays a king's ransom to claim her..and boldly risks capture to possess her. The most notorious pirate of the open seas, he is called "the Griffin"--a rugged and powerful renegade who arouses within Celia desires as dangerous as they are irresistible. But the magnificent adventurer is a man trapped in a perilous deception--and he guards a shocking secret that could deny him the love of the gossamer-haired enchantress who stirs his manly passions and enslaves his heart." This is the story of Justin Vallerand, son of Maximilen Vallerand, the hero in ONLY IN YOUR ARMS. S.
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Summary: Good book!
Review: Evidently, the heroine, Celia Verite, is a coddled brat. The author has introduced her to, wrote letters to, and finally said wedding vows to Philippe Vallerand. The heroine's absurd marital attitude thrown in the reader's face . . . . . . . . Good heavens, we can't consummate our relationship dear, dear Philippe until I decide I know you better. While we journey across the great Atlantic Ocean, we can sleep together but don't you pet me . . . . . Incredibly, this is the storyline the author grants her readers! More incredible: Celia challenges Justin, her husband's identical twin, but does not recognize him as Philippe's brother or even as a relative! These men are identical for heaven sakes! Even with a dirty face, little miss Celia should see some resemblance! Further nonsense: our sweet virgin woman, Celia, has a steamy affair with her husband's twin. A barbarous criminal who raids and plunders throughout the Gulf of Mexico. How does the author justify these actions? It seems Celia's crafty husband, Philippe, for years has been in love with another woman, a servile seamstress. Why the swine still fancies her. Ok . . . A suitable vacation read. You know the type. When you read the final word -- the memory chip inside your brain disintegrates. Not one of Kleypas' finer moments in the sun. Grace Atkinson, Ontario - Canada.
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Summary: Farfetched.
Review: Evidently, the heroine, Celia Verite, is a coddled brat. The author has introduced her to, wrote letters to, and finally said wedding vows to Philippe Vallerand. The heroine's absurd marital attitude thrown in the reader's face . . . . . . . . Good heavens, we can't consummate our relationship dear, dear Philippe until I decide I know you better. While we journey across the great Atlantic Ocean, we can sleep together but don't you pet me . . . . . Incredibly, this is the storyline the author grants her readers! More incredible: Celia challenges Justin, her husband's identical twin, but does not recognize him as Philippe's brother or even as a relative! These men are identical for heaven sakes! Even with a dirty face, little miss Celia should see some resemblance! Further nonsense: our sweet virgin woman, Celia, has a steamy affair with her husband's twin. A barbarous criminal who raids and plunders throughout the Gulf of Mexico. How does the author justify these actions? It seems Celia's crafty husband, Philippe, for years has been in love with another woman, a servile seamstress. Why the swine still fancies her. Ok . . . A suitable vacation read. You know the type. When you read the final word -- the memory chip inside your brain disintegrates. Not one of Kleypas' finer moments in the sun. Grace Atkinson, Ontario - Canada.
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Summary: Lisa Kleypas' best by far
Review: I agree with the previous reviewer. This is Lisa Kleypas' best book by far. It also has one of the hottest love scenes I've ever read. French-born Celia is a new bride on a voyage to her husband Philippe's home in New Orleans when her ship is attacked by pirates and Philippe is killed. She is taken to an island where a privateer called Griffin wins her in a fight. Griffin takes her through the bayou, seduces her against her will, and delivers her safely to the home of the Vallerands, her husband's family. There she learns that Griffin (whom she hates) is also connected to this family. When he is injured by the same pirate that killed her husband, Griffin is brought to the Vallerand home and Celia is forced to deal with him in close quarters.
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Summary: Not Up to Snuff for Lisa Kleypas
Review: I couldn't get into this book at all because not only was it somewhat predictable, I did not like the characters. The heroine, Celia, seemed spoiled, sheltered and overall boring. There was nothing special about her and I didn't like her. Also, this book read too much like so many other romance novels where the guy is a complete jerk and womanizer at the beginning only to turn into a sensitive one-woman man at the end of the book. Lisa Kleypas can do better than this. I know it. Her story of Dreaming of You with Sara Fielding and Derek Craven was, by far, one of the best books I have ever read. I only wish we could have another Derek Craven for our hero.
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Summary: Magnifique!!
Review: I did not know how much I enjoyed this book until I read it again!! The story is perfect. The heroine is naive at first and at conflict with her desires. The hero is dark and brooding!! And the sensuality....There were a few times when I thought the book would burst into flames. While Celia appears to be delicate, timid, and insecure, underneath it all she has a depth of character and strength that is a common thread in Lisa Kleypas' heroines. Who could not love Justin? The tormented "pirate" who is tortured by his past, struggling with the need to be free, yet needing to be loved. Usually, sequels are not nearly as good as the first. But, I think "Only With Your Love", picks up where the story of Max and Lysette left off. We get to see Justin and Phillipe as adults, and we get to see how Max and Lysette's love has continued. I highly recommend this book to anyone. It has romance, sensuality, adventure, depth, and characters who come to life. You will scream at Celia. You will get mad at Justin. But,you will cheer for them both as you watch them grow as individuals and as a couple. This is my favorite Lisa Kleypas book, aside from "Dreaming of You".
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Summary: This book was bad-wrong. It was badong.
Review: I like Lisa Kleypas a lot, but this book made me want to retch. To put this in perspective, this is the first time I've been driven to write a review about anything on Amazon.
This book just pissed me off so badly. I had to put it down after the first hundred pages because I realized exactly why it had been sitting in my "novel limbo" zone for nearly two years.
SPOILER ALERT!!
If you like mentally abusive rapist heroes, then boy, I have a book for you!!
Justin, the supposed "hero" will make you dislike him immensely within the first 100 pages of the book. He is selfish, uncaring about his brother's death, and rapes his brother's distraught wife after she 1) says no several times, 2) goes into classic rape victim defense modes to lessen the effect of what he's doing to her (mentally disconnecting, freezing up in an attempt to lessen contact), and 3) is healing up from an abduction, ANOTHER NEAR RAPE, a murder, and a kidnapping!!!!
To top it off, Justin stays an unlikeable, unrepentant jerk throughout the rest of the book (I cheated and skimmed). He crosses the line between unlikable/redeemable and villain, with no hope of return.
Oh, yeah, and Celia sucks. Weak as water, weak as water.
AAAAAAAAARGGGGGHHHH!
Lisa, Lisa...get it straight. A little resistance, fine. Going this far? Really, really sick. I'm throwing this book out.
Don't waste your money.
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Summary: great book!
Review: I loved this book! I recently have read a few of Lisa's books and now i'm hooked. I thought the characters were entrancing and i loved how it was american mixed with french in it. I loved the story, and would highly reccomend this book. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: So So
Review: I skimmed this book in the store several years ago, and I am glad I did so before buying it. Because the book would have certainly been dropped off at the nearest used book store after reading it. This book was very different then "Only in Your Arms," which is one of my favorite re-read books. The story revolves around Justin, Max's twin son from "Only in Your Arms." I could not get into this book. The heroine was not a character I could get myself to like much less respect. She's a complete spineless ninny. And the hero, Justin, just came across like a complete cad by seducing his brother's bride. When he thinks his twin brother is dead, he does not show any grief. The way Kleypas conveniently had Justin's twin brother in love with another woman in a off the cuff story just seemed too convenient, and it didn't make Justin seducing his sister-in-law to be any better. I didn't enjoy the plot nor did I like the main characters at all. The only thing of interest in the book was the reappearance of Max and Lysette. I would not recommend this book at all.
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