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Summary: Second Chances
Review: Cherlynn was just a modern woman of the 20th century. A writer of Regency stories, she gains the chance for the best research of her life when she is transported back in time. To get back to her day, she must help Lady Emily to right the wrongs against her and Drew. To keep neutral feelings about Drew is difficult, especially when her treacherous heart seems to reach out to him. Another outstanding book by Allison Lane. Once again she has broken all the rules and turned out an awesome book.
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Summary: Second Chances
Review: Cherlynn was just a modern woman of the 20th century. A writer of Regency stories, she gains the chance for the best research of her life when she is transported back in time. To get back to her day, she must help Lady Emily to right the wrongs against her and Drew. To keep neutral feelings about Drew is difficult, especially when her treacherous heart seems to reach out to him. Another outstanding book by Allison Lane. Once again she has broken all the rules and turned out an awesome book.
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Summary: I really liked this story.
Review: Considering that the 18th century is vastly different than our own, this book was a wasted opportunity to show the differences. How would a 20th or 21st centry miss cope with things such a chamber pot, foods, how about deodorant and tooth paste! One would think the Emily/Candace grew up with none of these things! What a silly book where no one is especially interesting.
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Summary: what is to like?
Review: Considering that the 18th century is vastly different than our own, this book was a wasted opportunity to show the differences. How would a 20th or 21st centry miss cope with things such a chamber pot, foods, how about deodorant and tooth paste! One would think the Emily/Candace grew up with none of these things! What a silly book where no one is especially interesting.
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Summary: I really liked this story.
Review: First of all the heroine name is Cherlynn not Candace(what book were you people reading)? This is a story about a woman who has had alot of bad breaks, is Not beautiful nor is she very successful at her chosen profession. Who has the opportunity,at first against her will, to make right a great wrong by going back in time. While it's a shame that she wasn't accepted for how she looked or what she was in the present she has a second chance to take the "essence" of what she is and repackage it in a more desirable form. I LOVED her intellegence and the way she was able to show it off and correct all the things that went wrong. Ah, if it were only that easy. For all those who had trouble believing the evil woman of the piece, where is equality here. Woman can be just as evil as men and sometimes, unfortunately, do it better. And excuse me but this is a time travel book so what's the difference. Besides it only made the punishment all the more satisfactory. I also like the way the author wrote the last chapter to mirror the first only with a twist. It was very clever. And if I'm a little unhappy that there wasn't a little more "romance", I guess you can't have everything. Besides I have a good imagination so I can fill in the blanks. All in all I think the heroine came out looking better than the hero, but then it was her story anyway. And in the end they each got what they needed most, love and acceptance.
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Summary: Wonderful time travel Regency.
Review: I agree with Romantic Times' review saying that Allison Lane is a "Superlative storyteller." There is a lot of emotional intensity in this story, something that we jaded romance readers long for and can never get enough of. The Second Lady Emily has a particularly sympathetic heroine and a dynamic hero as well. I highly recommend this book not just to Regency fans but to fans of time travel and fantasy, and fans of an excellent, compelling love story.
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Summary: Unconvincing
Review: I bought this book for the novelty of the premise and the goodreviews on this site. However, I just can't concur with the otherreviewers' opinions of it. The 'setup' elements of it just seemed utterly ridiculous. The contemporary heroine feeling compelled to bid for the Lordship of the Manor (which is *not* the same as an aristocratic title, and would have nothing to do with the queen or Buckingham Palace, so that element of the story is just incredible).When Candace/Emily ends up back in the eighteenth century, the story gets even less credible. The hero spending hours alone in her bedchamber, despite being engaged to someone else and Emily being an unmarried woman? No way. And when she tells him her secret, that she's from the twentieth century, I find it unbelievable that he doesn't have her sent to Bedlam. But no; he believes her, and spends hours late at night talking to her about politics, world affairs, literature and all sorts of things which, let's remember, women were supposed to have very few opinions on then. So yes; I find many aspects of the plot aside from the time-travel bit unconvincing. But besides this, the 'other woman' is too unremittingly evil to be true, as well. Lane needs to take some lessons from writers such as Balogh and Putney in writing villains; very few of them are evil through and through, and Lane's characterisation here was just unbelievable. Not recommended.
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Summary: best regency-timetravel-romance ever written
Review: I was shocked to see that some people (especially the person who wrote the rewiew from May 1st, 2000) wrote such devastating reviews on one of the best romance books I have ever read. In "The second lady Emily", a modern day woman experiences a ghostly attack that transports her back to the beginning of the 19th century where she gets the chance to prevent a curse that effects her future life. She finds herself in the body of the young lady Emily who suffered a mysterious, almost fatal accident and has been involved in a star-crossed love with the hero that is bound to marry someone else. While trying to set right history, the heroine falls in love with the hero herself and he is enchanted by the new Emily. Both of them (and also the other characters) are brought to life by Mrs Lane's superb way of writing and their feelings are described very touchingly. The love between them seems to be very real - not an instant love based on faces and bodies solely but a growing love based on the personalities of the hero and the heroine. This is why I think of this book as a very successful romance. Additionally, the plot of the book is absolutely thrilling (I don't want to give away any more here). Of course, people who want to read something realistic should not buy a trime travel romance. One off the other reviewers complained that the villain in this book is too evil to be realistic. Of course that is so, but what else would be potent enough to trigger curses and dinive interaction? One suggestion to the critics: Just enjoy the story and don't think too much about missing realism or missing historical details. I enjoyed reading this book so much that I read it again immediately after I finished it the first time. Altogether, I cannot count the times anymore I have reread this book since I bought it two years ago. If you like a sweet romance with a touch of mystic and mystery in it, this will be the right book for you.
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Summary: Not for me
Review: Just didn't like this book! I couldn't believe in the characters or the silly plot. I ended up giving my copy away - there's no way I'd read it again.
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Summary: A Five Star Book
Review: This is my first Allison Lane novel and I was utterly enchanted by her excellent writing style, interesting characters, original plotline, and fast paced action. This is one Regency romance where the author does not feel compelled to repeat the same agonizing thoughts in fifty different ways, but actually moves the plot with new thoughts and new actions. I found it hard to stop reading, and it is a short quick read. I hope her other books are as wonderful as this one.
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