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Summary: Absolutely delightful!
Review: This book was so original and charming. I adored it. It was everything I look for in a book. It made me laugh and cry and I felt as if I knew the characters. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a great book!
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Summary: A Jewel
Review: This is a full-blown, suspend reality, Fairy Tale. The heroine is an inept witch; the hero is so up tight, if he lived today, he'd be an accountant or a nuclear engineer, pocket protector and all. The situations are a stitch; the one-liners are laugh aloud funny; and the deflowering (for those who have read the book, no pun intended!), is the funniest I've ever read. (When the hero says the expected, "I know this is hurting you!" she responds, "If it hurts you too, why are we doing this?"---and it gets funnier.) I can't believe my good fortune in discovering Loretta Chase AND Jill Barnett in the same month! I do so enjoy a good romance, which is also very frustrating since there are so few good authors. I don't even mind trite if it's well written and amusing (as in the author uses words over one syllable correctly and can write a grammatically correct sentence). Anyway, "Bewitching." is right up there with "Lord Scoundrel" and some of the better Julie Garwood books, and I am now on the hunt for every book Ms. Barnett has ever had published, which is the best compliment I can give any author. Thank you, Ms. Barnett, and please keep writing.
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Summary: funniest romance i've ever read!
Review: this is a really hilarious book. i love jill barnett. i read one of her short stories in "a holiday of love", and i loved her work so i went in search of some more of her other books. alec is such a gloomy aristocrat, who doesn't like change and surprise. joy is just what he needs to speed him up!
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Summary: Wonderfully funny & romantic
Review: This is a wonderful romance novel. Jill Barnett uses humor to bring life to her characters. The element of magic that is in this story makes it all the more enchanting. If you like Johanna Lindsey books, you will love this book.
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Summary: One of the funniest, sweetest and most original novels
Review: This is one of those rare books that make you laugh until you cry, then touch you with its sweet frustrations. While the story is terrifically entertaining, there are also some substantive issues dealt with in this book, such as acceptance of those who are "different", whether through perceived mental retardation or through the practice (or "mis-practice") of magic. I thoroughly recommend this book on a cold and lonesome night.
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Summary: Love it!!!!!
Review: This novel is a must!!! This was my first Barnett novel as soon as I finished reading it I went to buy all her novels.
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Summary: It WAS Bewitching!
Review: Very cute story, very unusual story. I enjoyed it very much. The reader, Carrie Gordon Lowrie, was well chosen and enhanced the context of the story.
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Summary: BEWITCHING makes you want to take time to smell the roses!
Review: When I first read BEWITCHING I had so many laughs at Joy, a witch who just couldn't seem to get her spells right that my family had to tell me to calm down. Joy landed herself in more trouble the moment she landed in the carriage with the handsome Lord Alex. The poor man didn't know what he was in for. I loved the way she changed Alex from a person who ran his life by the clock into a caring, loving man who was often covered in rose petals.Joy's familiar was a riot and I laughed so hard at times I was crying, especially when he was working away on a certain footman's wig. I told a friend I couldn't read this in public since I would make a fool of myself laughing my head off at certain parts, and believe me my family concured. This is a story that brings home the fact that many of us don't take time to laugh or do some silly things in life to make ourselves and others happy. Jill Barnet is an excellent writer who knows how to bring love and laughter to her readers. This is one author whose works go right on my keeper shelf whether they are of a serious content or down right tickle your funnybone.
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Summary: great read...
Review: Wow what a complete suprise! For once I didn't feel as if I was having deja vu while reading a romance novel.
The story was original, and the romance was great. This has become one of my favorite books which considering its genre say's alot for this book. Please read if your looking for something original whithin the romance section!
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Summary: the witty and incomparable jill barnett!
Review: you know a book is really good when you can pick it up after years of it just lying there and laugh as hard as you did the first time you read it! this was the case for me. my favourite part of "bewitching" was when Joy was "cooling" off her face by plastering her lips onto the carriage window! I love how barnett described them like "pink leeches." A part of me wanted to cringe in mortification for Joy, but another part of me just thought it was too funny! this humor is continuous throughout the story and it provides comic relief for the staid and all too duke-like Alec Castlemaine. I think it is wonderful how his character develops from cold and unbearable to downright loving, foolish and sentimental. It's not as though those feelings didn't exist in Alec, it's just that they had been suppressed so long by his family and his sense of honor for his family. Best of all I like Beezle, Joy's familiar. This is a wonderful story and barnett employs a rhetoric that is uniquely hers. I would consider "bewitching" her best piece of work to date.
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