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Rating: 
Summary: Good
Review: Six years ago, Miss Eleanor Milford rejected a suitor... and she never stopped thinking about him. But she has since moved on with her life, and spends her time running a school for the non-gentry. Now, she's got another responsibility on the horizon. She is to guide her silly young cousin, Priscilla, though her Season. As luck would have it, Eleanor almost immediately runs into the man from her past: Griffin Preston, who is now an earl. Lord Bromley (that's Griffin) fell in love with Miss Milford all those years ago... and now he's expected to court her cousin! But spending time with Priscilla is a good cover for spending more time with Miss Milford. Will Griff be able to convince Miss Milford to give him a second chance? There were a lot of good things about this book. I liked the characters, and there was a nice secondary romance thrown in. And while Ms. Hinshaw's plot was nothing new, she succeeded in breathing new life into an old premise. But the book had its slow moments--especially toward the end. And I was hoping it would wrap up a bit more nicely. Overall, 3 1/2 stars. It's a pleasant book.
Rating:
Summary: Good
Review: Six years ago, Miss Eleanor Milford rejected a suitor... and she never stopped thinking about him. But she has since moved on with her life, and spends her time running a school for the non-gentry. Now, she's got another responsibility on the horizon. She is to guide her silly young cousin, Priscilla, though her Season. As luck would have it, Eleanor almost immediately runs into the man from her past: Griffin Preston, who is now an earl. Lord Bromley (that's Griffin) fell in love with Miss Milford all those years ago... and now he's expected to court her cousin! But spending time with Priscilla is a good cover for spending more time with Miss Milford. Will Griff be able to convince Miss Milford to give him a second chance? There were a lot of good things about this book. I liked the characters, and there was a nice secondary romance thrown in. And while Ms. Hinshaw's plot was nothing new, she succeeded in breathing new life into an old premise. But the book had its slow moments--especially toward the end. And I was hoping it would wrap up a bit more nicely. Overall, 3 1/2 stars. It's a pleasant book.
Rating:
Summary: a good read
Review: Six years ago, Miss Eleanor Milford went to London in order to make her bows before Society, where she met and feel in love with Griffith Preston. Unfortunately, when Griffith asked if he could speak to her father (in other words he proposed), Eleanor rebuffed him. And everyday since that fateful night, Eleanor has regretted rejecting Griffith's proposal. Now in a strange twist, Eleanor finds herself in London again, only this time not as a debutante but as a chaperone -- her dizzy cousin Priscilla is to make her debut and the girls' autocratic grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Branden, has decided that Eleanor will be in charge of Priscilla's debut and see to it that the flighty miss does not disgrace herself beyond redemption. The last thing Eleanor expected was to come face to face with Griffith again, to discover that he is now an eligible bachelor, or that everyone expects Griffith to make a match of it with Priscilla of all people!! But is Griffith really courting Priscilla? Something about the way Griffith is behaving makes her wonder if she may have a second chance at love after all... What I liked most about this book was the Victoria Hinshaw's approach as to why Eleanor and Griffith failed to make a go of it the first time around -- no deep dark secrets here -- and how neither character bears the other any resentment -- true, Griffith does feel hurt and betrayed by Eleanor's cavalier refusal but rather than plotting revenge, Griffith's prime need is to discover why she refused him. After having plowed through far too many books where the hero plots to seduce and abandon the heroine who had "wronged" him all those years ago, I found this authour's take on this particular plot motif refreshingly different. I also thought that the character portrayals were (on the whole) nicely handled as well, as was the tiny subplot about education. Victoria Hinshaw not only knows how to refresh a much used plot motif, but also how to "colour" everything with just the right amount of social history as well. However, the previous reviewer is correct when she notes that after a while, things did tend to drag on for far too long. Eleanor's vacillating between following her own inclinations and bowing to the decrees of her autocratic grandmother while understandable, did pall. And the urge to shake her really hard grew with every succeeding page. Ultimately however, because the novel did engage on every level, and I did find myself enjoying "Miss Milford's Mistake," I would vote as an overall good read.
Rating: 
Summary: could not even finish it
Review: This book was so bad I could not finish it. While I can applaud the auther in sort of trying to do something different, i.e. the fact that Eleanor Milford rejected Griffith's proposal not becuase she wanted to but because she wanted to see him do it again and again and again then finally say yes. Okay - so she was young but he goes off to join the war effort (gee, how noble) and returns 6 years later with a title inherited from his brother, who died. All this time he can not forget her. Please - yes, love is great but 6 years have gone by. She did, after all, reject him, so his I still lover her attitude was out of place. It would have worked better if she had to work at making him fall in love with her again. It is illogical that he would try to pretend interest in flakey cousin Priscilla just to get close to her.
Rating:
Summary: could not even finish it
Review: This book was so bad I could not finish it. While I can applaud the auther in sort of trying to do something different, i.e. the fact that Eleanor Milford rejected Griffith's proposal not becuase she wanted to but because she wanted to see him do it again and again and again then finally say yes. Okay - so she was young but he goes off to join the war effort (gee, how noble) and returns 6 years later with a title inherited from his brother, who died. All this time he can not forget her. Please - yes, love is great but 6 years have gone by. She did, after all, reject him, so his I still lover her attitude was out of place. It would have worked better if she had to work at making him fall in love with her again. It is illogical that he would try to pretend interest in flakey cousin Priscilla just to get close to her.
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