Forced into a marriage of convenience with the respectable but plain Jenny Shaw, Andrew Halpern, Viscount Temple, soon learns that there is more to his new wife than meets the eye. Original.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Refreshing Read,
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I heartily recommend this book, if for no other reason than I'm sick to death of gorgeous heroines. For once, here is a historical novel which has a realistic heroine that I could understand and sympathize with. The couple has issues and it is interesting to watch how they resolve them and to find that the hero, Andrew, can get past appearances to what lies beneath. This is similar in many ways to Georgette Heyer's books like 'The Convenient Marriage' and others where the focus is on developing a relationship rather than just empty sex with two doll-like characters.
I just hope there are more books in the offing like this one, where you can read a story about real people in a historically accurate novel. Bravo!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Book !,
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This book was so good. I wished it to be a little bit longer but I enjoyed every bit of it.
How many of us can relate to Jenny. It would be nice if all of us could turn out to be beautiful at the end ,but that is fantasy. I liked Jenny from the very beginning and actually could relate to most of her insecure feelings. Even after her physical changes her non belief of her beauty, I could fatham, Although throughout the book the author tried to portray Andrew as showing regret to leaving his son and wife for supposed career moves, it did not make me like him anymore. He was gone three years and not once , other than when he left her did he try to contact her and Pleasssse! Do not try to ever say that he was celibate for three years, that for him I would have found impossible. When Jenny found him back in London after his return from Russia , although it didn't go into detail,the divorcee that had instigated them to marry was clutching his arm at the opera, I wanted Jenny to stand her ground and spit in his face, but as in alot of these books the heroine comes across as a whimp so taken be her desire for her wandering husband that she caves in and runs away. Hanging her head in hurt. Sometimes I would like to see the man eat crap and crawl back with his tail between his legs. I felt she forgave him much to quickly for the hell he subjected her to. Of course it ended as it should with them being a family , but I have to wonder if she hadn't changed ,if it would have ended the same.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Why did she have to end up perfect?,
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I would have enjoyed the book more if the heroine would have remained plump and not looking like, well, a golden swan. So a man can only truely love a woman if she is graceful and beautiful? That's what I got from the story. Other than that, the story was well written. Just, for once, can we have a heroine who is not perfect?
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