I did think this book was wonderful, especially for a "romance" novel with a rather embarrassing cover. However, I did feel (and this is not a negative comment but rather a big compliment) that I really wanted the book to be a more expansive, longer, and more in depth. I felt like the book kind...
Always, always, read all the spoilers on goodreads before touching the book! This was a great reminder to not break the rule.As it is, after skimming 20 pages I skipped ahead to 230 and the story seemed to be okay... the problem was in the middle. ugh! why why why... I wish the ho Julian was, he ...
It's rare to read a book in this genre that understands the complexity and the history of India. I've read several books more recently that were set in exotic settings that had a lot of stereotypes and a lack of understanding for those settings and the characters therein. I don't always mind it i...
London, 1888. Nell Whitby lebt mit ihrer Mutter und ihrem gewalttätigen Stiefbruder in Bethnal Green, einem Armenviertel Londons. Mit ihrer Arbeit in einer Tabakfabrik versucht sie sowohl ihr Überleben als auch das ihrer kranken Mutter zu sichern. Als es ihrer Mutter immer schlechter geht, eröffn...
CAUTION SOME SPOILERSThis book is a bit hard for me to rate. I was really enjoying this book. It captured my attention and it had me turning pages over and over again. I love Ms. Duran's writing. It's mesmerizing and I found myself not able to stop reading every single word. Simon was great. He w...
It was quite interesting - this retelling of Shaw's Pygmalion. A high born child kidnapped by seduced maid ends up in London gutters. There she has to survive and work hard jobs. Until her "mother" dies and with her final breath tells her about her real father. The girl is so distraught that she ...
Blurb: Lydia, 26-year-old scholar/spinster/assistant to an Egyptologist father, becomes entwined in a mystery about fake Egyptian artifacts. Naturally there is a handsome young lord to become entwined along with her. I think Meredith Duran may be a genius. This book is GREAT - far above ordinary ...
My favorite of Meredith Duran's. I really enjoyed Lydia and her headstrong, willfully blind tendencies. She is guileless and spends much time feeling ashamed because she doesn't really fit in, and as a woman this discounts her in society. Then you have James, the caddish Viscount who cares little...
This is the first book I read from this author. From all the good reviews I say I am a bit disappointed. For it didn't start good. The paced of the story is a rumble. I don't know what is climax of the story. It kept going to a different pace. There are parts that both the h/h are frustrating. Th...
Voici un roman mignon-tout-plein-à-croquer.L’héroïne est adorable et pleine d’entrain. On aurait envie d’être sa copine.Le héros est attendrissant dans ses essais pour devenir quelqu’un de non fréquentable pour que l’héroïne s’éloigne.Gwen vient de se faire plaquer pour la seconde fois et décide ...
This was a pretty good book. The beginning was a bit confusing. It felt like there was a lot of start ... stop ... start ... stop to the beginning of the story. At a couple of points, I had to go back and re-read because I wasn't sure if I had missed something or if that was how the paragraph was...
Okay. This was not what I was expecting from this book. AT ALL. Now, I was thinking that back in the day, the word "scandalous" was meaning that girls kissed guys flippantly and danced in short skirts. NOT practically mauling your dead brothers best friend every chance you got. In the very beginn...
2.5 stars -- strong start that peters out into something less interesting by the end.a duran novel can teeter between mediocre-with-hints-of-greatness and strong-with-lapses-into-mediocrity, and this one is juuuuuust barely the former. PROS: meredith duran does a great job in *all* of her novels,...
I was certain about this one not being a HEA, but Ms. Duran wrote one with such expertise that I am speechless. I can't say I love Nora or Adrian (both have lots of flaws) but I completely understand what they were going through and their love. I loved the book! P.S: I hope this one is made into ...
I have to say, I'm a Meredith Duran fan. I appreciate her writing which is at times quite lyrical without being fussy, and her plots are not overly predictable or self-evident. In this one, the complexity of her characters is what delighted me most. To have a heroine with an itsy bitsy drinking p...
Fool Me Twice / That Scadalous Summer - Rules for the Reckless This is the 2nd book in the Rules of the Reckless series of Meredith Duran's, the 0.5 being Your Wicked Heart (novella) and the first being That Scandalous Summer. I received this book from Netgalley and decided I should read the fir...
By rumor, he came to clear his head and dwell on great matters of local government in the silence and restorative heat. No doubt he spared a few thoughts, too, for women he’d like to harass. As Nick took a seat on the bench beside the man, his fists...
“Wait.”Her finger itched on the trigger. Bonham, Collins’s particular protégé. Mr. Bonham admires your spirits; let him deal with them. “Throw away the gun,” she said. Her arm did not shake; her hand held steady.“You misunderstand,” he said. “I want to make a trade.”“I said throw it.”He tossed th...
“You’ll have it,” Amanda called over her shoulder. The landlady, a perpetually harried-looking woman by the name of Primm, gave a skeptical nod before turning back down the staircase. The groan of the rotting stairs punctuated the woman’s descent. Amanda fumbled with the k...
She remembered a house, infinitely large and empty. An old woman who had tried to pull Olivia onto her lap—but Mama had snatched her back. And she remembered an argument, very angry, as Mama wept.These were not details that provided much help in locating her mother’s childhood home. But Shepwich ...
His gaze pointed murderously at Palmer’s grip on her arm. “Lord Palmer!” she said loudly. “What a pleasant surprise!” Nick’s gaze lifted to hers. Turn away, she begged him silently. Just go. He went back into the tavern, slamming the door. “Friend of yours?” Palmer asked. She tried to pull free, ...