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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Short but sweet story of 2 people falling in love after breaking off their engagement.,
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This review is from: Winning the Wallflower (Kindle Edition)
Be forewarned that this short story is only 50% of the total download. The rest is promotional excerpts from other James' works: Her new HR to be released Dec. 27, The Duke Is Mine; previously released HRs A Kiss at Midnight and When Beauty Tamed the Beast; and her e-book novella Storming the Castle: An Original Short Story with Bonus Content. So this novella is definitely short. It is also sweet and romantic but nothing new in the HR genre. Heroine Lucy, daughter of Lord and Lady Towerton, is self-conscious about her over-average height and has turned into a wallflower. She doesn't have a large enough dowry to make up for her perceived drawbacks and has not received one offer of marriage from men of the ton. (An aside to mention is that Lucy is the best friend of Olivia Lytton, another wallflower, the heroine of the new James HR to be released soon.) Rather desperate, her parents have agreed to an engagement with Cyrus Ravensthorpe, whose mother was an earl's daughter who had the gall to fall in love and elope with a commoner. Never mind that Cyrus' father is a very famous and distinguished barrister; his blood is just not even close to blue. However, the Ravensthorpes are very well off financially and Cyrus himself is extremely and independently wealthy. Cyrus has always felt a bit shunned by the ton and has plans to better himself in society, hence his wish to marry a woman of the peerage. But out of the blue Lucy's father's aunt dies and leaves her fortune to Lucy. Now she can pick and choose a husband and her parents want her to break off the engagement to Cyrus. Lucy, however, is a bit attracted to Cyrus but unsatisfied by his aloof and cool treatment of her. She decides to give him one last chance to show any real interest in her as a person but things don't work out to her satisfaction, so they break up. The rest of the short is a cute "learning to know each other as people and falling in love" theme and it's an enjoyable read. It is, at the same time, not particularly groundbreaking and not really deserving of the classification "historical" because the behavior and speech of characters is definitely out of period. I guess I shouldn't complain about that aspect because very rarely does one come across an "historical romance" that is really historical.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Short Novella with a Lot of Sneak Peeks!,
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This review is from: Winning the Wallflower (Kindle Edition)
I love Eloisa James' books! I have probably read just about everything she has written - especially her historical fiction. Due to an inheritance, Lucy becomes a girl in demand. She is already engaged, but when she inherits, her mother forces her to break her engagement because now the man isn't suitable since he doesn't have a title.Coming face to face with the man she agreed to marry, Lucy forces Cyrus to tell her why she was selected for his bride. Forced to confront his own reasons for choosing her, Cyrus acknowledges that he chose her because she was safe...not given to giggling, drama, or other foolishness. She "checked a box" on his list of successes he wants to achieve. Sadly, this confirms Lucy's opinion of what happened when she became engaged. She continues to challenge his behavior, his thinking, his actions.....and breaks the engagement, even though she didn't want to. Faced with the loss of the woman he was going to marry, Cyrus realizes that maybe the way he chose a bride was wrong. The two of them have to figure out if the engagement is what they want, or if they want to call it off completely, no matter what Lucy's mother wants. I know this is a novella, but I thought that the ending was a bit abrupt, in my opinion. It just seemed to be resolved, without the usual depth of understanding I expect from her books. One thing I liked was that there were several excerpts from other books. One of them, The Duke is Mine, is the story of a secondary character within Winning the Wallflower. I'm looking forward to reading it. I received this book from the publisher through the Edelweiss program. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions are my own. This review originally appeared on my blog.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Never fail with Eloisa James,
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This review is from: Winning the Wallflower (Kindle Edition)
I agree with the other reviewer who warned: this is a SHORT novella. I love a new book from Eloisa and was very excited to get this novella before her next novel arrives. I have no complaints except to say "I wish there was more!" Great teaser till the next book but I was just starting to get attached to the characters when the story ended.
And like all novellas, you have to be okay with the small 'leaps' the characters take (e.g., becoming more confident, discovering something complex in what feels like an instant). I didn't relate to Lucy as much as others might (she's very tall; I am very short) but she was very easy to understand and root for. And for .99, I'm not complaining. :)~ hehe
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