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Summary: Delightfully Different Regency Romance
Review: Lady Sophia Rowley, so wonderfully wicked in Ms. Mannings previous book, The Reluctant Guardian, is a more complex character than we imagined. When she sets out to seduce the local vicar in this novel, she is as surprised as he is by the results. Ms. Manning's characters are all very human. The worst criminals still have some goodness within, and the very good vicar is not without sin. An entertaining and engaging novel.
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Summary: Seducing Mr. Heywood
Review: Seducing Mr. Heywood is a HOOT -- a story best summed up as a cleverly written "original." I didn't expect to be so taken in by such an uncoventional plot, but once I picked up this book, I couldn't put it down. In fact, since first reading SMH, I've had to pick it up two more times just to "revisit" these characters. I would HIGHLY recommend this book!
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Summary: Intriguing premise falls flat
Review: The synopsis for this book caught my eye - that along with some of the stellar reviews. The beginning promises an intriguing twist on the usual regency novel. Unfortunately, I found the writing style to be somewhat stilted. While I understand that this is fiction - many of the situations just did not ring true for me. And the villain just seemed unnecessary and and too over-the-top. Somehow, I think the story would have worked better with out this part of the plot. Also, some of the tie-ups in plot between the heroine and her sons felt too pat and hard to imagine. I would not recommend paying the cover price of this in hardcover. The author seems to need to hone her writing skills a bit more. I look forward to some of her more seasoned works in the future.
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Summary: Intriguing premise falls flat
Review: The synopsis for this book caught my eye - that along with some of the stellar reviews. The beginning promises an intriguing twist on the usual regency novel. Unfortunately, I found the writing style to be somewhat stilted. While I understand that this is fiction - many of the situations just did not ring true for me. And the villain just seemed unnecessary and and too over-the-top. Somehow, I think the story would have worked better with out this part of the plot. Also, some of the tie-ups in plot between the heroine and her sons felt too pat and hard to imagine. I would not recommend paying the cover price of this in hardcover. The author seems to need to hone her writing skills a bit more. I look forward to some of her more seasoned works in the future.
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Summary: A delightful read
Review: This is a wonderful Regency romance with a few little twists and lots of charming historical details.
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Summary: A Lively, Sophisticated and Elegant Book.
Review: This is one of the most entertaining books that I have read this year.
The characters are well defined and entirely believable. The language is realistic, elegant and often funny.
The plot is well rounded and sophisticated, with surprise twists.
If you are a fan of this genre this is not a book to be missed!
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Summary: Not Your Average Regency
Review: What a pleasure to read a Regency romance in which the heroine is not a blushing innocent, but a bold, assertive, seductress. This kind of female character is usually secondary, and often a villainess. In SEDUCING MR. HEYWOOD, our heroine follows the path most romance writers reserved for male leads, setting her own rules, determining what she wants, and going after it. In another twist, it is the male object of her affections who is is sweet and diffident, but not a wimp, and it is his love that transforms our heroine. You're read it a hundred times with the roles reversed, but rarely this way. Here is an author who knows the Regency period in exhaustive detail, and who has used it as a setting for a highly original and entertaining story.
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Summary: Not Your Average Regency
Review: What a pleasure to read a Regency romance in which the heroine is not a blushing innocent, but a bold, assertive, seductress. This kind of female character is usually secondary, and often a villainess. In SEDUCING MR. HEYWOOD, our heroine follows the path most romance writers reserved for male leads, setting her own rules, determining what she wants, and going after it. In another twist, it is the male object of her affections who is is sweet and diffident, but not a wimp, and it is his love that transforms our heroine. You're read it a hundred times with the roles reversed, but rarely this way. Here is an author who knows the Regency period in exhaustive detail, and who has used it as a setting for a highly original and entertaining story.
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