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Summary: Romance and Laughs - A Wonderful Read!
Review: ... this book had me laughing out loud several times. In fact, I can't help but grin when I recall Katherine's encounter with the "highwayman". All in all, I thought this book took a different approach than most in that you started out almost disliking the heroine from page one. But as the story progresses you begin to understand her more and more. Katherine won my vote by not being your typical "damsel in distress" waiting to be rescued by her Prince Charming. And Alain...he was adorable. I mean, he was just real to me. Sure, he wasn't exactly "titled" and his "nonchalant" attitude towards life might have proven a bit frustrating to some but to me...it made him all the more believeable. All in all, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys romance!!!
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Summary: Romance and Laughs - A Wonderful Read!
Review: ... this book had me laughing out loud several times. In fact, I can't help but grin when I recall Katherine's encounter with the "highwayman". All in all, I thought this book took a different approach than most in that you started out almost disliking the heroine from page one. But as the story progresses you begin to understand her more and more. Katherine won my vote by not being your typical "damsel in distress" waiting to be rescued by her Prince Charming. And Alain...he was adorable. I mean, he was just real to me. Sure, he wasn't exactly "titled" and his "nonchalant" attitude towards life might have proven a bit frustrating to some but to me...it made him all the more believeable. All in all, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys romance!!!
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Summary: A Disappointment -- Not that interesting or well-written
Review: Based on the reviews, I expected more from this book than I got. The story didn't keep my interest. The characters had potential but didn't live up to it. There are so many other good historical romances out there where the author creates interesting and believable characters and puts them in an interesting and believable environment. This book used up my suspension of disbelief about a third of the way through.
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Summary: Sex-ay!!
Review: Every time I hear Sandy Hingston has a new one coming out I wait, with bated breath, and never am I disappointed! For this one, she went all out. Characters I fell in love with, a romance that's the stuff of dreams, sex scenes that are, well, dripping with steaminess. If you love romances--and who doesn't, really?--you MUST pick this one up. Now!
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Summary: What a disappointment!
Review: I am a bit surprised at the high marks this book has garnered as it is so blatantly poorly written. First off the heroine makes such a point of always wanting to be called by her title and the title is WRONG! Being unmarried, she would be titled Lady Katherine. I would think that the daughter of a duke would know this. For a while I thought she was actually a girl perpetrating a hoax, but obviously not. It was just the author's abysmal lack of researching titles. What really surprises me is that this got past the copy edits.Also this great transformation occurs after a couple of weeks of rec gifts from a stranger? Please! This girl has spent 20 years being a snob and poof! she changes over night? I don't think so. Then she follows this man to France alone? And not be a victim of theft or rape along the way? This girl has probably never gone anywhere alone in her life, but suddenly she is this world traveller who takes out after a perfect stranger? How was she to even get in and out of her clothes. Did she never change her dress? Well to say the least after this point I put the book down, so I can't say what happened next, and I didn't care to. In my opinion don't waste your money.
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Summary: The suitor suits me fine!!!
Review: I can't think of enough good things to say about this novel. It was wonderful. I loved it to the very last page. Not a stickler for all that regency historical accuracy...I had no problems with these characters. In fact I'm glad they weren't too stuck in their time. This is a fairy tale. I knew that the minute I first met Alain. Who but prince charming could be so wonderfully perfect? Surely we all read to escape our real lives. So why be disappointed when a fiction novel turns out be... well fictitious? The problem with romance enthusiasts is that they start taking it too seriously. It goes against everything that romance is about. I don't read for a history lesson. That's what history books are for. I read for pleasure. And this novel pleased me very much. This was my first by this novelist but it wont is my last. The characters didn't act like typical romance novel characters and believe me that am a great compliment. When we start knowing everything a silly chit in a novel is expected to do then we are lost. The choices Katherine made blew me away because they were so unregency like. There are none of those silly misunderstandings none of the stupid plot devices that could be easily solved if only the characters were not too stupid to live. NO these characters were smart and unique and too smart to care that they aren't regency. They could exist anywhere at any time. That's what makes this the perfect fantasy.
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Summary: Kind of a let down
Review: I have loved this author for a long time-my favorite books by her have been the "Beloved"series under the name of Mallory Burgess- Beloved Knight and Beloved Honor are two of my very favorite romance books. This book started out pretty good but I,like another customer, found it hard to beleive that the heroine would undergo such a dramatic change in character in such a short time. I also didn't care for the last quarter of the book where the characters are separated and then I found the resolution was very disappointing and anticlimatic. I will read one of her other newer books and hope for better.
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Summary: A Definite "Beach Read"
Review: I loved HOW TO KISS A HERO by Sandy Hingston, the first in the "School for Scandal" series, so to be honest I was expecting THE SUITOR to be a bit of a let-down. After all, how could it possibly be better than its predecessor? THE SUITOR isn't better than HOW TO KISS A HERO--it stands on its own and is really completely different from any book that is (probably) coming out this year. And I mean that in a good way. Katherine is still self-centered, proud, arrogant, and completely insufferable when the book begins, which is what makes her so much fun! And Alain, the "suitor," is appropriately dashing and romantic, etc. I could definitely sympathize with Katherine throwing herself at him :)--I would have done it sooner than she did! The poems and gifts that he sent her were sooo romantic. Sigh! While I did love this book, as usual, there were some things that I didn't like or thought could have been improved upon. Alain's character, for example--while Katherine is very well-drawn, we receive almost no insight into Alain's character at all! At the end of the book, I had no idea what he was all about, which was very disappointing, as he could have been interesting. But, to be fair, Hingston's style is to tell the story almost completely from the heroine's point of view, and I started this book expecting that to be the case. It was still disappointing, though. Also, what is up with the title of this book? Alain is hardly a suitor; more like a highly inappropriate dalliance. And then, of course, there's the completely ridiculous excuse for a plot, but to be honest that didn't bother me at all. It is a romance novel, after all. Despite these few things, I still loved THE SUITOR. It's funny, interesting, romantic, and original. If you're looking for a charming, can't-put-down read for the summer, then I would highly recommend it.
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Summary: shows promise; needs work
Review: I must agree with the editorial review posted above and written by Lynne Welch of the American Library Association: the inconsistencies in language, setting, and behavior detract from the overall quality of the book. It was offputting to hear early nineteenth century characters using modern slang. And the plot is improbable to the point of unbelievability. Plus, the major characters aren't even likeable. That said, Hingston shows promise; her writing style is in many ways excellent for a romantic author, she just needs to put more work into her books and TO BE BETTER EDITED!
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Summary: Lots of promise!
Review: I read this book after having read a wonderful review of it at allaboutromance.com. While I very much enjoyed the first 3/4 of the book, I must say that I found the last quarter rather long and unfulfilling. I found myself skimming looking for the resolution between the main characters. This writer has great promise and I will definitely be on the lookout for more of her titles. I may have read it here that this and other books could really use a good editing. This book could have been 5 stars with a good editing.
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