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Summary: A Delightful Read
Review: I just finished "Miss Grantham's One True Sin" this morning and I throughly enjoyed it. It was one of those rare books that you just can't put down. I actually found myself teary eyed once. This is the first book I have read anything by Melynda Beth Skinner but I am eagerly anticipating "Lord Logic and the Wedding Wish". Happy Reading!
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Summary: A wonderful read!
Review: Miss Grantham's One True Sin is a seamless story about an ill-fated bargain that turns the lives of two people upside down. Ms. Skinner uses wit and humor to weave a spellbinding story filled with so many lovely moments that it's a pure pleasure to read. My only question is when is the next book coming out?
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Summary: A wonderful read!
Review: Miss Grantham's One True Sin is a seamless story about an ill-fated bargain that turns the lives of two people upside down. Ms. Skinner uses wit and humor to weave a spellbinding story filled with so many lovely moments that it's a pure pleasure to read. My only question is when is the next book coming out?
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Summary: Great read!
Review: Miss Grantham's One True Sin is very well written, the characters are engaging, the plot entertaining, and True Sin was to die for! Melynda Beth Skinner's ability to spin a memorable tale just gets better and better. I look forward to the next one!
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Summary: Great read!
Review: Miss Grantham's One True Sin is very well written, the characters are engaging, the plot entertaining, and True Sin was to die for! Melynda Beth Skinner's ability to spin a memorable tale just gets better and better. I look forward to the next one!
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Summary: Top Notch Regency
Review: Regency lovers will love this story by Melynda Beth Skinner. A rich, but untitled heiress, Marianna Grantham, sets out to hire a temporary fiance in order to fool her ladder-climbing parents into thinking she has made a good match that will launch them into polite society. Her choice of a man to help her pull off the ruse is influenced by her friend, Ophelia Robertson, the outlandish lady introduced in Ms Skinner's first book, The Blue Devil. Truesdale Sinclair, known as True Sin, has his own reasons for going along with the scheme. While the story is a fun romp through True's and Mary's misadventures along with three delightful but mischievous little girls, Ms Skinner also gives us an insightful view of the forces driving True and Marianna. Watching these two characters overcome their internal struggles as they fall in love makes for a very satisfying ending.
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Summary: a wonderful read
Review: This latest Regency romance novel from Melynda Beth Skinner, "Miss Grantham's One True Sin" is a little more complex a novel than her first one, "The Blue Devil" mainly because it deals with the psychology of the main characters involved. And while it was not quite the lighthearted romp that her first novel was, "Miss Grantham's One True Sin" is still an enjoyable read.Marianna Grantham is in a quandary. She has been sent to England by her parents in order to contract an advantageous marriage that will pave the Grantham's way into the London ton. A year has passed since Marianna has set foot in England, and she is no closer to attaining her goal. The trouble is that she has been sending letters to her parents, lying about her triumphs; the trouble is that her parents are on their way to England. Marianna needs a sham betrothal to an eligible bachelor and she needs it now. And when her friend, Ophelia Robertson steers her towards Truesdale Sinclair, the Viscount Trowbridge, who is in deep debt, Marianna believes that she has struck gold. Meanwhile, Truesdale Sinclair, is facing problems of his own. He has inherited an estate that is bankrupt and the guardianship of his three hellion nieces. Truesdale needs money badly, and he needs to find someone who can provide a good and stabilizing effect on his nieces. So that Marianna proposes to pay him to pretend to be her fiance (thus keeping her parents satisfied while she goes about trying to find her own true love), Truesdale comes up with a scheme of his own to seduce her and get the heiress to marry him. Thus begins the charade about mistaken impressions: Marianna thinks that she's made a bargain with a care-for-nothing rake, who has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever, while Truesdale thinks that he has to seduce a woman obsessed with clawing her way up the ranks of the ton. Both of course are in for a surprise. But will discovering each other's true nature and character be enough for these often at odds pair to realise that they were meant for each other? Or will it take a much stronger catalyst? I rather enjoyed reading "Miss Grantham's One True Sin" and Melynda Beth Skinner made it easy for me to sympathise and empathise with all of Marianna's fears and hopes. Here was a young woman who had put her own desires and wishes on hold in order to fulfill her parents's ambition to be part of the London ton. And even when I felt like shaking her because of her idealised notions about how tonnish society was the only society worth knowing, I felt sorry for her blinkered thinking. It was even easy to feel charmed by the rakish Truesdale, even when I disapproved of his cold-hearted seduction plan. I only had two problems with this otherwise rather well written novel: 1)Marianna's parents came across as one dimensional selfish fools; and 2) it would have been great if Marianna realised on her own that the members of the ton were not the idealised beings she had thought them to be. Other than that, I enjoyed this novel. Marianna Grantham, with all her beliefs, fears, insecurities, strengths and weaknesses makes this romance novel a more textured and memorable one. And one worth recommending as a good read.
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