I fell in love right from the first chapter. Its the writing that captivates me. It flows beautifully and the way it describes the feeling of the characters are just feel right to me. I instantly in love with Leo. The plot also revealed in just a right way and the right time. I just love this boo...
I prefer to give 2 and a half stars because the beginning was difficult to read. The hero of His at Night was a funny, nice aristocrat who was dumb as dirt. Everybody loves him but knows he has limited brain function after a throw from a horse during his teen years. Vere is a pretender who help...
Sherry has the most incredible skill to create powerful angst. Watch out, hopeless romantics!This was a difficult book to rate. On one hand, I loved it.The characters were the most realistic I've read in a while, with flaws and qualities, and there I say, more flaws than qualities and several dem...
Rating: 3.5 out of 5I won a copy of this book through the Goodreads First Reads program. I really enjoy Sherry Thomas' writing! This book is just a little too full of angst for me. I love seeing Fitz and Millie grow closer through the years, but I wish we had a little more time to see them togeth...
Realmente me gustó mucho este libro. Me sorprendió porque no es lo usual en el género de romance histórico y el cambio fue gratamente recibido.El libro nos cuenta la vida de Millie que es una chica sumisa y obediente con una familia sin título pero con grandes riquezas. Pero el anhelo de su padre...
Agognavo un nuovo libro di Thomas in italiano, come un assetato nel deserto. La regina del rimatrimonio e delle seconde possibilità, apre con questo libro tre trame in una, tutte gustose. Christian, uomo appassionato e incerto (ogni donna, nella vita, dovrebbe poter ricevere una delle sue lettere...
I give the author credit for writing different kinds of characters.Reading about the heroine's famous French cooking was interesting. But it was ridiculous how long she and the hero went without him seeing her face or knowing who she was. I could not believe it.I also find it difficult to root fo...
Sherry Thomas writing was as usual good, but I didn't enjoy this book as much as Private Arrangements and His At Night.As other reviewers have mentioned, it was a bit too fantastical to be believed, and I'm pretty good at suspending my disbelief! Possibly because the over-the-top reactions to Ver...
I keep reading Sherry Thomas books in the hope I will love something as much as I adored "Ravishing the Heiress", but I have yet to even come close. More so than anything else she has written, this reminded me of an Eloisa James book: overwrought and too impressed with itself.I thought the time j...
Tempting the Bride by Sherry ThomasHelena Fitzhugh has a secret love affair. When she is almost caught at a rendezvous she accepts help from David Hillsborough, Viscount Hastings. Helena despises Hastings, but to salvage her reputation elopes with him.David loves Helena, but was too proud to decl...
Ooooo, I loved this book! I really didn't enjoy the second book in this series, but the hero of this one, Hastings, had my heart from the beginning and I felt so much for him that I was tearing up several times throughout the book and it takes A LOT for a book to make me cry. Part of it was just ...
While it is an easy, typical romance that I was looking for and I didn't expect 3-D characters, the book was unappealing as the characters were mostly boring, frustrating and annoying. The plot line was especially ridiculous and bad. Plus I'm over the trope where it was just a huge misunderstandi...
I finished this one last night, and have to say that I am extremely glad I did! When I realized that the story was set in India, (in fact about three-quarters of the book takes place there), I hesitated to continue since I have absolutely no interest in that part of the world. However, the books ...
This story is one of a kind and the characters are one of a kind. I remember someone once mentioned that Ms. Thomas tends to write unconventional characters. With this being the second book of hers that I've read, I think I'll agree with that statement. Vere and Elissande are wounded souls who bo...
Okay, the synopsis and the actual book didn't totally fall together like I thought they should (synopsises are ridiculous things), BUT I still enjoyed it immensely. Really. I laughed my butt off more than once. It wasn't exactly an apt title or cover, comparing that to the actual content, but tha...
She's an abuse victim trapped with her abuser and desperate to escape, as well as rescue her drugged aunt. He's a fop and spy for the Crown. He insinuates himself into her household in order to get dirt on her abuser for something completely different. She traps him into marriage. Completely u...
I think this story was just alright. It lacks the magic and force of the main characters in other books but the writing is still good. I think the love-hate relationship between Venetia and Christian wasn't convincing. This is mainly because of Christian, who decides that since Venetia is the mos...
I found several things to chuckle over in this read. First was the weapons-grade beauty of the lead female. She was a virtual EMP of the ballroom and any place else she wasn't wearing her netted hat. If this was intended to be funny it succeeded. Second was the slap-stick ending - so many entranc...
What is shorter than a novella? A story, I suppose. What is shorter than a story? An outline?This is shorter than an outline. It's sort of a long set of paragraphs. Perhaps it is not fair to review a work based on its length. However, I am not commenting on its monetary value--only on the content...
Every one keeps raving about this author but I've struggled to find a book I'm willing to try because the majority seem to have some kind of infidelity in them, though not always the hero and heroine or at least not physical in some cases.In this case, the heroine married an older man with a son ...
Reviewed for NetGalleyWell, I finally read this book. I tried and tried and tried to read it, and I JUST couldn't get into it. Then I read My Beautiful Enemy and I really enjoyed that story. So, I found this one and I read it. I also really like it. However, I absolutely had to read the othe...
After Not Quite a Husband, I was too scarred to read any more of Sherry Thomas's books, but this novella was included together in a bundle with a Courtney Milan story, so I figured I might as well read it. And I enjoyed it! Still, I've read enough reviews of the novel that comes before this in th...
In a pursuit that has spanned continents, Iolanthe, Titus, and their friends have always managed to remain one step ahead of the forces of Atlantis. But now the Bane, the monstrous tyrant who bestrides the entire mage world, has issued his ultimatum: Titus must hand over Iolanthe, or watch as his...
She couldn't.“Break open that bottle of champagne. This time next year you could be Lady Philippa Stuart.”She didn't know why she should be so stunned. Yet she was dazed with distress, barely keeping herself together, as if all these weeks she'd been holding her breath, waiting for him to return ...
(I hope Mamma never sees this. Or it would be off with my head for such blasphemous language—if not already for writing to you behind her back. But my word, you bloody fool!) This morning Mamma took to her bed and Papa was abroad. I snuck out of the house to Mrs. Wallace’s boarding home, hoping t...
Titus went through a cascade of spells to lock, steady, amplify, and focus his aim. The missiles must be struck down when they were more than three miles out, beyond the outer defensive walls of the redoubt. The moment they crossed over the walls, they would dive to the ground to wreak havoc on l...
When I inquire as to her whereabouts, I am told that she has gone for a walk. I don’t blame her for wanting one. The day is gorgeous, the temperature perfect, and I would have stayed out much longer on my ride if I weren’t so keen to see her again. An hour later, in the midst of a conversation wi...
Fairfax’s hand threatened to slip from his. He instinctively tightened his grip, even as he tumbled head over heels. The next moment he realized that he was no longer falling as fast. He had thought that should she succeed, they were sure to suffer injuries, slamming into a powerful current of ai...
The paper I presented was well received. After a celebratory lunch with my collaborators that lasted three hours and left me a bit tipsy on Bavaria’s famous beers, I went for a walk in the Englischer Garten—in the snow.In fact, it snowed the entire time I was in Munich. By contrast, Naples, where...