I picked this up only because I'm running out of historical romances from my library's ebook collection. Anyway, I saw this and could not believe that a Regency romance heroine could unironically be named Vanessa Huxtable, so I had high hopes for a tongue-in-cheek Regency-era Cosby Show retelling...
Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, telah memenangkan semua taruhan dan mulai bosan dengan permainan itu sampai akhirnya muncul sebuah taruhan dari teman-temannya bahwa dia harus bisa menaklukan Miss Katherine Huxtable, gadis muda yang baru saja memasuki dunia bangsawannya setelah adik laki-lakinya re...
ok, it was just ok. This book seemed to drag on and on. Second book of the series. Can't say I really enjoyed the bok as much as the others in the series.
This is the third in the series-and the best- of the series thus far. A great summer read! -Darcy I enjoyed this book because it was true to the time period. Plus Mary Balogh makes me laugh.
Super cute Historical English romance about a silly kind hearted young woman and a staid quietly strong titled gentleman. They are the best 'catches' of the season so of course they are thrown together quite often, but even before being formally introduced they have an awkwardly romantic first me...
Oooh, this book kept me on my toes. Witty and entertaining I can't wait to read more books by Mary Balogh in hopes they are all as awesome as this first one that I've read. Sacrificing yourself for the sake of family and friends, a dog, is all something Cassandra does for love. Her 'prey' Stephan...
A Handful of Gold – Mary Balogh – 2/5 – While I can’t pick anything out of here that I specifically didn’t like, I think I just didn’t feel engaged with the characters. The Hero wasn’t particularly likeable at any point in the story in my opinion, and I think they “fell in love” rather quickly. ...
I can't say many flattering things about this book or the author. I disliked the way the story was written.One thing I like about books is that you are transported into the characters lives and get the opportunity to experience the story through their eyes. This story was not at all like that. It...
It's sort of not great to give this only two stars because the writing was pretty good, but. 1. I felt like there was a lot of recycling from the last book (oh! they shall learn to love! - oh! but he is so very inappropriate). Having read them straight up back to back, it really stood out. Had...
Cinta masa lalu Miss Margaret Huxtable, Crispin Dew, kini datang lagi dalam kehidupannya dan meminta Meg untuk menikahinya. Meg yang masih sakit hati karena Crispin mengkhianatinya karena menikahi wanita Prancis, makin marah pada pria itu karena Crispin kini ingin menikahinya karena dia membutuhk...
I like that Mary Balogh tries to write about different personalities and how they might get along. Many authors write a blueprint hero/ine and she does not. I'm glad because her books are all the more enjoyable for it. I adored both the heroines in both stories, but the heroes less so -- I jus...
I really did enjoy this book!It was quite different from the previous books in the series and a little difficult to read at the beginning.I had my problems with the heroine because I did not particularly like the way she tried to solve her money problem. I totally agreed with Alice that there had...
The temporary wife: more interesting than "the ideal wife" which has a similar plot. Here, the hero has a long buried grudge with his family. The new wife ends up melting hearts and mending rifts.The promise of spring: story develops over nearly 3 years. Heroine is older than hero and has to...
Oh, Mary Balogh, how I love your books! This is the 4th installment in the Survivors Club series. Each time, I think this is my favorite one. And I am always right, until the next one. Flavian had a head injury that made him unable to speak or think clearly. Thanks to the Survivors Club, he impr...
This book I found in the lobby of my apartment. I needed something small to fit into my purse yesterday while riding Bart. While I believe it is probably in the romance department of books, one I stay away from. It was still a quick fun read and not too corny. It was fun to read how two feuding f...
This is the first Mary Balough book I ever read, and also my favorite. It's nice and short and I read it in a flash. The two protagonists are great, and the story has a most excellent twist in the middle. Balough deliciously hints at the twist before finally putting it out in the open, after w...
This was just an alright book. The story revolves around Philippa and Julian. Philippa was being match made by Vincent's family and hers. They didn't want each other though. Vincent had no interest in being married that early and to another accommodating female. She, on the other hand, had been e...
Two books in one.Christmas Bride is about a wealthy merchant-class man, Edgar Downes, who promised his father to wed--or be engaged to--a lady to bring home for Christmas. The problem is his wealth will only buy him so much in place of his birth, and the girls whose families are poor enough to t...
For the past two years Viola Thornhill life has been peaceful and calm. After picking up the pieces of her life and starting anew, Viola’s life seems almost perfect. Until she meets a handsome stranger at a May Day celebration and is warned by a fortuneteller there, to beware of him as he could d...
Great, great read - Rachel and Alleyne are wonderful, and the secondary characters extremely colorfulSUMMARY (Bedwyn Family, Book 5):Slightly Sinful overlaps significantly (chronologically speaking) with the previous book in the Bedwyn series, Slightly Tempted (Morgan and Gervase's story). Lord A...
After reading the Bedwyn Prequels, it was odd to be introduced to the Bedwyn series with Aidan since we didn’t meet him at all in the two Prequel books.From reading some reviews, I was all set to love this family and though they are supposed to be a haughty aristocrat family.. I LOVE them, I DO! ...
Priscilla Wentworth 23, "small and dainty" orphan, learns reality on her first visit to former governess, who now runs exclusive London brothel. Sir Gerald Stapleton 29, "slim .. pleasant .. clean", fears female entanglements. His passion for the well-educated girl leaps higher than a weekly appo...
Sister knows bestLady Daisy Morrison, at twenty-five, considered herself too old to marry. But she vowed that her young sister Rose would achieve the ultimate in wedded bliss.Certainly Rose had everything in her favor. Stunning beauty. Vast wealth. Sweet innocence. And above all, Daisy at her sid...
Review em: http://pepitamagica.blogspot.pt/2015/...Estes romances históricos passados nos inícios do século XIX falam sempre superficialmente da guerra com Napoleão, do Duque de Wellington, alguns até mencionam as lutas aqui na Península Ibérica, mas eu sempre achei que a maior parte das autoras ...
Reviewed for THC ReviewsSimply Unforgettable is the first book in Mary Balogh's Simply Quartet, which follows four teachers at Miss Martin's School for Girls in Bath. I didn't realize until I'd already started reading it that this series is essentially a spin-off of her Bedwyn Family Saga, which ...
Pages Survived: 215You know, when books are this bad, there should be a contractual and moral obligation to glorify the societal act of book burning. More Than a Mistress is a thing so bad, so atrociously rape-my-anal-glands awful that I'm convinced a spiked sledgehammer to the forehead wouldn't ...
Mary Balogh has no equal when it comes to capturing the complex, irresistible passions between men and women. Her classic novel, The Secret Pearl, is one of the New York Times bestselling author’s finest–a tale of temptation and seduction, of guarded hearts and raw emotion…and of a love so powerf...
Kit Butler has been ordered to take up the reins deemed by his family and marry, wanting to thwart his father’s plans for a his marriage and when a wager is set between him a his fellow friends to marry the coldest and most proper woman of the season in a short amount of time, Kit is surprised wh...
From one of America’s most beloved storytellers comes a classic love story—the breathtaking tale of a man and a woman caught in a web of temptation and seduction. All she wanted was to escape the hot, crowded London ballroom. But moments after stepping into the bitterly cold night, she is seized...
At her friend’s urging Anne Jewell and her son David set off for a fun filled month of fun, Anne doesn’t feel at home or comfortable around the family of peers her and her son are staying with, but she feels a calm as she sees the vast sea, until one night she sees a man of great beauty and pain ...
I've got to say that this book is one of the funniest books I've ever read. Which I didn't expect. Sure, Mary Balogh can be funny, but I don't usually associate her books with being downright hilarious. I found myself laughing out loud at this book, sometimes in public places (I apologize to my h...
(http://labirinto-livros.blogspot.pt/2...)O que faria se no dia do seu casamento, descobrisse que a sua mulher - que era acreditada como morta - afinal está viva? O que faria se visse o seu marido no altar à espera para tomar a mão da sua noiva? Neville Wyatt encontra-se prestes a tomar a mão da ...
Es el tercer libro de la serie «Simplemente» de la autora Mary Balogh que tiene como protagonista a Susanna, la joven maestra de la escuela St. Martin para señoritas. No supe que era el tercer ejemplar de una serie hasta que lo tuve entre mis manos y me empecé a informar. Pero no me importó, me m...
As someone who had been quite happy hating Freyja Bedwyn since meeting her in A Summer to Remember, I have no qualms admitting that I wasn't very thrilled about reading her book. At the same time, I couldn't help feeling some kind of morbid anxiety about it, as I wondered if Ms. Balogh would be a...
Boy, I love a good Balogh, going all the way back to Secret Pearl, ground-breaking and completely believable. More than a Mistress reminds me of that glorious story, but like a shadow reminds one of that which casts it. The heroine escaping to London believing she has committed murder is an unfor...
Edward, the Earl of Raymore, is one of those alpha unforgettable men you sometimes run across in a book. He is so scarred from manipulative women - ones he trusted - that you can understand his hatred of the whole sex! Now he is the guardian to two young women ... debutantes ... just what he hate...
Lady Emily Marlowe was beautiful, wild, and unspoiled. She could not hear or speak, though she listened with her eyes and answered with her smile. She was betrothed to a man who would have her as a pretty possession, a captive listener. But there was only one man for her—the dark and reckless Lor...
Well normally I love Mary Balogh, but this is one of her earlier books and just made me want to scream. As other reviewers have pointed out this is based on a big Misunderstanding, which makes absolutely NO sense whatsoever. The heroine Elizabeth Rossiter is working as a Companian to the 18 year ...
Mary Balogh transports readers to Regency England, a lush era that she has brought to life time and again in the pages of her bestselling novels. She captures the pageantry and drama, the manners and morals of a time when women often paid the price of passion, and the rarest of all privileges was...
3.5+ starsI truly enjoyed this book, because as outrageous as it might seem, I could relate to Judith's plight and even her decision to be "slightly wicked". I realize many might not be able to suspend belief to accept that a woman like Judith might be more than tempted -- that she might actually...
The Woodfall and Hayes families have been bitter rivals for nearly a century. Now after eight years, Kenneth returns home and realizes his undying love for Miss Moira Hayes.For her, he is willing to forget the past. But can she...?
"He wished .. it was the prospective bride he could shed rather than the mistress" Jen p 42. Though Miss Abigail Gardiner 24 p 208, companion, is plainer and quieter than the Miles Ripley, Earl of Severn 30 remembers, still he delivers a mighty setdown to cit employer Mr Gill, when picking up his...
In this collection of five Christmas-themed stories, beloved author Mary Balogh brings together tales of love, marriage, friendship, loneliness, and healing. Includes four Balogh holiday classics, The Star of Bethlehem, The Best Gift, Playing House, and No Room At the Inn, as well as A Family Ch...
http://labibliotecadellibraio.blogspo...Amori e destini è un volume che racchiude le vicende di tre fratelli, il conte di Amberley, lord Eden e lady Madaline Raine, trilogia chiamata anche Web.Nel primo romanzo La tela dorata Alexandra è una giovane donna alla sua prima stagione londinese, non è ...
Josephine Middleton runs away from her husband to the lustful Duke of Mitford. But even if she can entrust her virtue to the Duke, she might not be able to trust herself. A Regency romance reissue.
THE RIVALSThe handsome, dashing, wealthy Richard Adair, the seventh Earl of Brampton, was caught in a most devilishly difficult tug-of-war. Claiming his hand was shy and demure Margaret Wells, who became his bride in an icily arranged marriage designed to produce an heir in a boringly proper alli...
An impudent young beauty wagers her most precious possession that she can become the wife of the most handsome, worldly and bored lord in London. In this high-risk game of love, what will happen if she loses . . . or wins? Mary Balogh is the winner of the Romantic Times Award for Best New Regency...
French noblewoman Jeanne Morisette had first met Englishman Robert Blake when they were teenagers, but when they meet again as adults, their countries are at war and they are serving as spies.
ONE MAN HAUNTED HER PAST...Her beautiful eyes flashing with hate, Rebecca faced Lord David Tavistock. He had come back, wounded but still vibrantly, sensually alive, from the Crimean War. Julian Cardwell, her sweet, gentle bridegroom--and David's foster brother--had not. She blamed wild, reckless...
Alice Penhallow and Piers Westhaven had always considered themselves to be best friends--that was until Piers called upon Alice's help and advice in his decision to marry a much younger woman. By the time they realize that it is love that is between them, it might just be too late.
THE BOUGHT BRIDEGROOMEleanor Transome found her father's wealth a dubious blessing, for he was determined that she wed a nobleman. Lord Randolph Falloden, on the brink of ruin, could not resist the lure of cold cash, despite his passionate alliances with several other desirable maidens. And thoug...
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. Set against the seductive backdrop of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh’s latest novel sweeps us into the sensual, enthralling world of an elite academy for young ladies. Here, amid music...
He did not allow her to go to her own room first to change into her nightgown. When she protested, he informed her that she would not need it. And he proved his point as soon as the door was firmly shut behind them by unclothing her one garment at a time, including her stays and her shift and her...
He had lain down and stared upward in the near-darkness at the familiar pattern of the canopy above his bed. He had stood at the window gazing out at moonlit darkness, his fingernails drumming on the windowsill. There had been a sheen of moonlight across the lake.He had felt restless. His brain h...
For one thing, he was marvelously contented. His life followed the old routine to a large extent—he spent a few hours most days out on his land, sometimes in company with his steward, sometimes alone. His crops had grown into a ripple of green promise and the lambs were becoming small sheep and t...
If his messenger had taken the least amount of time possible to ride to Dunbarton, and if Watkins had been able to make the necessary arrangements in the two days allotted him, and if his carriage made the best time possible on the way to London, then he might expect her tomorrow—tomorrow at the ...
He circulated among the tables, smiling graciously at all his guests, took a turn in the garden, walking completely around the house in the process, circulated among his guests again, and then searched all the rooms in the house except the bedrooms and the servants’ quarters. There was no sign of...
She had not brought Prudence into the country with her. She had been accustomed for years to managing without the services of a maid.She was dawdling, she realized. It was well past her usual time of going downstairs to breakfast. And the outdoors certainly looked inviting. Despite fallen leaves ...
Her grandfather had gone already. Emrys, though he had a good voice, never went since the practices took place in the chapel and both the mixed choir and the male voice choir were conducted by the Reverend Llewellyn. Emrys had no use for the preacher though he had admitted years ago that the word...
James’s Street. Sophia arrived in the middle of the morning, alone and on foot. Those facts did not endear her either to the servant who answered her knock or to the woman who came out of a downstairs room to examine her appearance—presumably the landlady. But Sophia had dressed with care and wor...
He hoped that meant everyone, including his newly arrived friends, was in bed. No one was going to believe he had been out stretching his legs for several hours. And he was not in the mood for any male bragging on his own part or ribbing on theirs. She lived in a house tha...
Lady Agnes Marlowe protested. “Oh yes, of course I did, Anna.” She gazed down at one of the two nosegays she had been sent this morning from two of last night’s dancing partners and twirled it between her fingers. “But . . . ?” Anna prompted, smiling gently. &n...
After breakfast a few of the men, led by Mr. Park, went out to mark out a cricket pitch not far from the lake. Julianna Bentley and Marianne Astley went with Katherine, who was looking only very slightly pale, to stake their claim to a piece of level land upon which various races would be run. Ba...
It was neither too low nor too high at the bosom, and it was fashionably high-waisted, falling in soft folds to the scalloped hemline. She wore white lace gloves and white slippers. Her hair was dressed as it had been at the soirée. She looked beautiful, as she had looked in the park that afterno...
Everyone knew what announcement was to be made at the end of it, but the knowing did not dampen enthusiasm. Neither did the near scandal of a few days before, which had blossomed gloriously for a few hours only to die down again, as so many would-be scandals did. Not that the dying was to be much...
AND FORTUNATELY too it was the first of her predictions of what was about to happen to her, rather than the second, which came true. He caught her sagging body in his arms, looked hastily about in the darkness, to which his eyes had not yet accustomed themselves, spotted a wrought-iron seat not f...
It was also uncomfortable, even when one owned a well-sprung carriage with thick, soft cushions. Even so, Vincent was in no hurry for the journey to end. He was a coward. Though part of him was excited too at the prospect of being home, of starting ...
He was not sure he was going to need it. It was altogether possible that before dark he would be happy to put as much distance between Newbury and himself as was humanly possible. But he did not want to give the impression that he expected to be offered hospitality at Newbury Abbey.He walked up t...
Her replacement was the young daughter of the cook, a cheerful girl who was well liked by all the other servants. Samantha liked her too, but she dared not confide in her or suggest taking the girl with her when she left Bramble Hall. Everyone in the house would know about it within minutes. No o...