The Major's Mistake (Signet Regency Romance) [Paperback]

Andrea Pickens (Author)

Book Description

Series: Signet Regency Romance | Publication Date: August 8, 2000

Major Julian Miranda accepts a long-term army commission after catching his wife in what appears to be a very compromising position. Seven years later the couple meets again. But will it be pride-or passion-that wins the day?

"Classy."-Romantic Times

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Signet (August 8, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451200969
• ISBN-13: 978-0451200969
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,061,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lack of Research spoils this read., August 17, 2000

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This review is from: The Major's Mistake (Signet Regency Romance) (Paperback)

One of the Major's major mistakes is that he left for the war in 1801 and returned from fighting in the Peninsula in 1808. The second mistake is getting a bill of divorce passed through Parliament even when the wife doesn't contest it. Julian Grosvener, Marquis of Sterling, found his adoring wife in a dishevelled condition. She had been mauled by a friend of her husband's. After being spurned, Averill takes his revenge by slyly reporting to Julian that he saw her in the library with a man. Julian assumes she is faithless, sues for divorce, joins the Army and leaves for the Peninsular War. Young Lady Miranda Ransford adores her husband and despises his friends. Then she is accosted by Lord Averill and rejects him. His revenge is swift, and her youthful husband believes the worst. She runs away and finds shelter with Julian's aunt. Back from the Peninsular War and invalided out due to wounds Julian is ready to make a new life for himself. He returns home to find his former wife residing on a neighboring property with his aunt. Then there is the child. Whose? And there is his secret mission for the war office. The lack of research in this book is astonishing as well as distracting. I also despise young Julian's lack of faith and his assumptions. Andrea Pickens knows how to write, and she has some feel for the period. If you are a lover of Regencies but aren't that much of a stickler for accuracy, you will enjoy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 2 & 1/2 stars: good writer but questionable hero and..., January 26, 2004

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S. Reader "scibarfan" (Franklin, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Major's Mistake (Signet Regency Romance) (Paperback)

heroine, not to mention the historical gaffes and plot holes.

It took me a long time to like the Major; what he did to his wife was reprehensible. She had every right to be as angry as she was at the beginning of the book.

As to historical errors, locate the review that mentions them but gives the book 3 stars. My biggest complaint was: how the heroine was supposed to recover socially even though the hero remarries her? Divorce in that day was the end for a woman; polite society would never again welcome her.

The "crippled" war veteran is a nice character touch when so many heroes are physical perfection. Some of the servants are interesting characters. The book's early villain never reappears, and the secondary plot is very weak, serving only to get the hero to the heroine's location and to bring about the climactic scene.

Pickens' skill as a writer still allows the reader to enjoy the book despite its flaws (and her tendency to make the names confusing), but it's not one of her best.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Major's Mistake, August 21, 2000

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tregatt (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Major's Mistake (Signet Regency Romance) (Paperback)

This story line is a pet peeve of mine, and somehow seems to be
popular with romance writers!

The very married "hero" of
the piece seemingly finds his wife in a compromising position; and in
spite of the fact that she has not given him any reason to doubt her
integrity, he ups and divorces her, leaving her to somehow survive in
a society which does not condone divorce at all. Now, years later he
returns, finds that he has a son and demands that he have access to the
boy. (One wonders if the desire to know the child would be there if he
had fathered a daughter). Along the way, nice for our
"hero", he discovers that he still has feelings for his
"errant" wife, and that he has wronged her terribly. And lo
and behold, some 200 odd pages later, the wife has overcome her better
instincts, remembered her love, and takes him back.

Come on, real
women demand ... alot more. And contrary to popular belief, the
women of the regency period were alot more feisty and demanding than
everyone seems to believe!

I have enjoyed all of Andera Pickens'
previous novels, and this one is well written. However I wish she had
allowed for more time to have lapsed before things resolved so happily
at the end-- like perhaps 2 to 3 years!