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 improved to the point that he just had a bad stammer. But of course he was gorgeous. He was supposed to marry the girl next door, but once he was injured, she married his best friend. He never forgave either of them. And now she is widowed and wants to pick up where they left off. He, on the other hand, has different ideas, and a beautiful widow just may be the answer to his prayers. Sigh. This is a quintessential Balogh book. It has the good guy kinda saving the heroine, tho' she saves him back. The heroine was a true independent spirit. The hero was the tortured soul needing rescue. But this book veers off by making both characters very likeable. I mean real, flawed, honest people who were good and kind to each other.I struggled reading this book. It plodded along. I kept putting it down and picking it up again. Then, I would have to figure out where I was, over and over. I did finish it, though. And it was worth the slog.I think the conflict just wasn't strong enough to drive the story forward. Especially as the real conflict occured in the past. The bad guys in the present weren't really bad enough for me to fret over them and when confronted, sort of melted into the ground.
What do You think about Only Enchanting (2014)?
Ms Balogh writes beautifully.I'm forever drying tears when reading her books.Always 5 stars!
—Litsy
It ended much too fast. I would have liked Velma to get her punishment!
—midnightthug
Simply delightful! Mary Balogh never seems to disappoint!
—sarah
the conflict wasn't enough to save this story.
—schafifi
