With This Ring (Signet Regency Romance)

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Summary: Wonderful story
Review: This is the first book I read by Kelly and the best. Has everything I enjoy in a love story. The hero is great and the herion complements him perfectly. You can't help but love Sam.

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Summary: Delightful!
Review: This was my first 'short' regency romance and my first Carla Kelly book. I enjoyed it tremendously. The writing is fluid (thank you!), the story is original, and the characters are believable and well-developed. I cried for the soldiers who died. The descriptions of death and disease as a result of war were simple, but so real that you can't help but feel it. But mostly I chuckled and laughed out loud at Lydia's thoughts and actions. And thankfully, Major Sam Reed is no cardboard hero. He is brave and compassionate, but also somewhat of a liar (for certain reasons, he tells his family he married a nonexistant woman named Delightful Saunders and had a nonexistant child with her and talks Lydia into marrying him to save his tail!). I highly recommend this book! Very original. Very well-written. I had almost given up reading romance after some rather excruciating experiences with a hero and his manroot and another hero who was over-sexed to say the least. Well, I'm off to look for her other books!

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Summary: With This Ring
Review: With the intention of reading a few chapters before going to bed, I found myself hours later unable to put the book down until the very last page was read. My first book by Carla Kelly (but most certainly not my last), I found it to be absolutely wonderful. The concerns of the main characters were genuine, honest, and very noble, the last being a quality you don't find very often in stories regarding the ton. The story touched my heart.

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Summary: Couldn't put this book down!
Review: With the intention of reading a few chapters before going to bed, I found myself hours later unable to put the book down until the very last page was read. My first book by Carla Kelly (but most certainly not my last), I found it to be absolutely wonderful. The concerns of the main characters were genuine, honest, and very noble, the last being a quality you don't find very often in stories regarding the ton. The story touched my heart.

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Summary: Good enough to read but May not stay in reader's memories
Review: With this as an older and harder to find Kelly book, some may want to debate this read. Being a fan of Kelly because she is one of my favorite Regency writers, I enjoyed this book even with its odd twists and turns.

For instance, our protagonists acted in a way that contradicted with the personality you felt they had. Certain times you also wonder why they did certain things. This is all very evasive as to details to prove this but I don't want to give anything away because if you're a fan of Kelly's you still ought to read this book.

I think the storyline was refreshing in the fact that at the beginning you get a sense for what is going to happen and it really doesn't go that way at all even if you sometimes wish things easier for our protagonists. But Kelly is known for making situations difficult for her characters and that's what makes her books all the better.

Three stars because I like it - not love it and neither is it a perfect five because it wasn't neccessarily flawless. The ending with the Epilogue was a great touch though I wish there had been more details to it as the reader feels like they missed something. But the story proves and evokes certain feelings and brings up an issure in history that truly existed and was never really handled properly. So I DO recommend this read it is only not a stellar read.

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Summary: Carla Kelly Knows Her Romance!
Review: With This Ring is a wonderful book. I loved how Lydia Perkins was so devoted to Sam through their journey. She grew to know her potential as a women with brains and power. It's great to have and Aunt that writes such good books.