BACKWARDS HONEYMOON - LARGER PRINT (Harlequin Large Print (Numbered Paperback))

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Summary: A realsitic story
Review: although being far from exciting, the story backwards honeymoon is so realistic and had a lot of common sense and logic in it. It shows a story of a rich girl falling in love with the gardener's son in the evening of her wedding to a gambler. The story then shows in details how the girl and the gardener's son managed to run away and how they were very logic and reasonable about ecery step they took.

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Summary: Leigh Michaels is in great form!
Review: I enjoyed this book thoroughly and am not in agreement with the two former reviews. I am a fan of Michaels' backlist, especially books like Traveling Man, O'Hara's Legacy, Temporary Measures, Marrying the Boss, Dating Games, The Fake Fiance, and Strictly Business. To me Backwards Honeymoon combined the charm of Ties that Blind (another snob-with-layman book) with the faster pace of her more recent books. Michaels has learned since her original Harlequin Presents how to make her characters extraordinarily likeable - intelligent, humorous, and willing to stand by their opinions, without being moralistic or righteous. As always there's an element of surprise at the end. The one thing I didn't think flew was the occasional switch to the hero's point
of view. This is something Michaels has been experimenting with in the last few years, and it detracts from one of her main strengths - her ability to make the hero seem incomprehensible and mysterious to the heroine. The times she switched to hero-POV, we learn nothing new, and in fact the reality is always a little disappointing - I've always enjoyed letting my imagination fill in the blanks about her heroes' perspectives with the hints she leaves. Overall, though, for me this only distinguished an excellent book from some of her truly marvelous ones. I had a great time reading the book and if she can continue to write at this level I will be very happy.

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Summary: Leigh Michaels is in great form!
Review: I enjoyed this book thoroughly and am not in agreement with the two former reviews. I am a fan of Michaels' backlist, especially books like Traveling Man, O'Hara's Legacy, Temporary Measures, Marrying the Boss, Dating Games, The Fake Fiance, and Strictly Business. To me Backwards Honeymoon combined the charm of Ties that Blind (another snob-with-layman book) with the faster pace of her more recent books. Michaels has learned since her original Harlequin Presents how to make her characters extraordinarily likeable - intelligent, humorous, and willing to stand by their opinions, without being moralistic or righteous. As always there's an element of surprise at the end. The one thing I didn't think flew was the occasional switch to the hero's point
of view. This is something Michaels has been experimenting with in the last few years, and it detracts from one of her main strengths - her ability to make the hero seem incomprehensible and mysterious to the heroine. The times she switched to hero-POV, we learn nothing new, and in fact the reality is always a little disappointing - I've always enjoyed letting my imagination fill in the blanks about her heroes' perspectives with the hints she leaves. Overall, though, for me this only distinguished an excellent book from some of her truly marvelous ones. I had a great time reading the book and if she can continue to write at this level I will be very happy.

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Summary: Not one of the author's better works
Review: I generally love Leigh Michaels books, but this one is not a keeper. It just didn't grab me like her books usually do. I didn't even bother finish reading it. It was just cliche romance writing. I knew how it would end without needing to read it all. I wouldn't waste my time or money on this book. Leigh Michaels has better books than this to choose from.