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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
De cover en de titel van dit boek spraken me helemaal niet aan. Ik had het idee dat het over een bandiet ging en ik zocht een fantastische Regency-roman van Mimi Matthews. Maar... de lovende reviews die ik overal voorbij zag komen, zetten de roman in het ware licht. Omdat Maggie steeds twijfelt over de identiteit van Viscount St Clare blijf je als lezer ook twijfelen. Wie is nou wie in dit verhaal? En als John Beresford niet is wie hij zegt dat hij is, hoe kan hij dan een ander zijn?
Als je van romantiek, regency en mysteries houdt, kan ik je dit boek van harte aanbevelen!
Als je van romantiek, regency en mysteries houdt, kan ik je dit boek van harte aanbevelen!
Mimi Matthews has done it again. Bold characters, flawed and human and so utterly relatable, swoony romance, realistic villains, good triumphing over evil.
Margaret Honeywell had grown up knowing that her father expects her to marry her neighbour, Frederick Burton-Smythe, but Margaret hasAready given her heart to Nicholas Seaton, servant on the estate, and rumoured bastard son of notorious highwayman, Gentleman Jim. In a pique of jealousy, Frederick frames Nicholas for theft, the punishment is death. Nicholas escapes, vowing to find his father. Left alone, Margaret is forced to watched her estate fall ever more into the hands of violent Frederick, trying to use all her wits to try and escape marriage, but soon she might just have to marry him to protect her home and wealth.
When a mysterious man appears ten years later, John Beresford, Viscount St. Clare, looks incredibly like long lost Nicholas Seaton. Bent on revenge and restoring his family's honour, he cannot afford to let his increasing attraction to beautiful Margaret Honeywell distract him. With Margaret convinced he is Nicholas, she keeps on interfering in his plans.
Will their mutual attraction and passion help them both, or destroy their lives completely?
This is an incredibly enjoyable read! It has dashing heroes and heroines, passion, a grand story in the Gothic style, duels, mystery, and intense action. It would make a lovely film.
I'm also so glad to have a heroine who has a hard to deal with level of illness, but that does not hamper her ability to find happiness. As someone who deals with chronic pain and illness myself, it is so lovely to see how Maggie is loved for who she is, without her illness making her pitiful.
We are so lucky Mimi Matthews shares her brilliant mind and imagination with us all, so we can feel goodness and happiness and joy through thr marvelous characters she creates. Mimi is a true artist with the written word.
Margaret Honeywell had grown up knowing that her father expects her to marry her neighbour, Frederick Burton-Smythe, but Margaret hasAready given her heart to Nicholas Seaton, servant on the estate, and rumoured bastard son of notorious highwayman, Gentleman Jim. In a pique of jealousy, Frederick frames Nicholas for theft, the punishment is death. Nicholas escapes, vowing to find his father. Left alone, Margaret is forced to watched her estate fall ever more into the hands of violent Frederick, trying to use all her wits to try and escape marriage, but soon she might just have to marry him to protect her home and wealth.
When a mysterious man appears ten years later, John Beresford, Viscount St. Clare, looks incredibly like long lost Nicholas Seaton. Bent on revenge and restoring his family's honour, he cannot afford to let his increasing attraction to beautiful Margaret Honeywell distract him. With Margaret convinced he is Nicholas, she keeps on interfering in his plans.
Will their mutual attraction and passion help them both, or destroy their lives completely?
This is an incredibly enjoyable read! It has dashing heroes and heroines, passion, a grand story in the Gothic style, duels, mystery, and intense action. It would make a lovely film.
I'm also so glad to have a heroine who has a hard to deal with level of illness, but that does not hamper her ability to find happiness. As someone who deals with chronic pain and illness myself, it is so lovely to see how Maggie is loved for who she is, without her illness making her pitiful.
We are so lucky Mimi Matthews shares her brilliant mind and imagination with us all, so we can feel goodness and happiness and joy through thr marvelous characters she creates. Mimi is a true artist with the written word.
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I want to write a very full review for this... but then again I don't.
I think to enjoy this book you can't go in with too much detail, but instead just have to ride the roller-coaster of it. Given the blurb (and also the first chapter), I think experienced romance readers will quickly intuit some things. It gives a little nod to the Count of Monte Cristo. But the enjoyment is how the plot gets from point A to point .
This is a very romantic story with a strong, enjoyable heroine and a dashing, very enigmatic hero. It also has plotting rogues and scheming relatives, a parent trying to control a child from beyond the grave and another parent who goes to the grave with a lot of secrets to be uncovered. And through it all you wonder about identity -- mistaken or fraud or real? And it keeps you guessing until the end with an appropriately dramatic climactic scene.
I started this yesterday and did not put it down til I finished. It was a great read with just enough angst (not too much) and adventure (more than enough) and romance (a lot). Also I really appreciate that both the hero and heroine have their own separate high stakes plots that intersect in some ways but are still have separate but equal importance to that character.
Good book.
This is an honest review based on an ARC received by the publisher via Netgalley
I think to enjoy this book you can't go in with too much detail, but instead just have to ride the roller-coaster of it. Given the blurb (and also the first chapter), I think experienced romance readers will quickly intuit some things. It gives a little nod to the Count of Monte Cristo. But the enjoyment is how the plot gets from point A to point .
This is a very romantic story with a strong, enjoyable heroine and a dashing, very enigmatic hero. It also has plotting rogues and scheming relatives, a parent trying to control a child from beyond the grave and another parent who goes to the grave with a lot of secrets to be uncovered. And through it all you wonder about identity -- mistaken or fraud or real? And it keeps you guessing until the end with an appropriately dramatic climactic scene.
I started this yesterday and did not put it down til I finished. It was a great read with just enough angst (not too much) and adventure (more than enough) and romance (a lot). Also I really appreciate that both the hero and heroine have their own separate high stakes plots that intersect in some ways but are still have separate but equal importance to that character.
Good book.
This is an honest review based on an ARC received by the publisher via Netgalley
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I liked the writing but not the very predictable plot and boring characters. It might work better if the book was half as long. I lost interest at 50%.
2.5 stars.
2.5 stars.
Gentleman Jim is another A+ from Mimi Matthews. She is fast becoming one of my favorite HR romance authors.
If you'd asked me before, I wouldn't have said that friends to lovers is one of my top tropes. But Gentleman Jim may have just changed my mind. Plus, when it's childhood friends to lovers, there’s a history there that comes with such a deep level of unspoken understanding. The yearning is top notch, obviously. And this time we get a high born heroine and a commoner hero. So sprinkle in even more angst.
There were a lot of similarities to The Highwayman - childhood friends violently separated, only later to be reunited, with the MMC going under an assumed identity. I'm embarrassed to say how long it took me to realize that both this book and The Highwayman are basically the romance versions of The Count of Monte Cristo. I mean there was literally a quote in the beginning of the book from The Count of Monte Cristo.
This book really did it for me in the angst and yearning department.When she got all dressed up for the ball, only to be disappointed when he didn’t show, then to be crushed when he made an appearance but with another woman. Only for him to dance with her later on the terrace. Then to ride to her rescue in the dead of the night and get shot. And she thinking that he was lying on the side of the road bleeding out but couldn’t say anything lest she give him away. But she has to know if he’s okay so she risks her reputation and visits his hotel. Where he’s wounded, half naked, fully drunk, and has lost any semblance of self control. He finally admits that he’s her childhood friend. Thanks to the scar reveal (which I totally called). But now there’s gossip about their relationship and his enemies are coming closer to the truth of his real identity. He’s willing to give up his inheritance to be with her, and she’s willing to give him up for his bright future. So they separate and trust they find their way back to each other. Gah, it's just so good!
I think Maggie and Nicholas are one of my favorite Mimi couples -childhood loves wretched apart, waited ten years to find each other again, never giving up hope. That's, like, true love. Plus, they had amazing chemistry so you know the sex was hot.
Thank goodness I have more of Mimi's backlist to get me through until Return to Satterthwaite Court comes out!
If you'd asked me before, I wouldn't have said that friends to lovers is one of my top tropes. But Gentleman Jim may have just changed my mind. Plus, when it's childhood friends to lovers, there’s a history there that comes with such a deep level of unspoken understanding. The yearning is top notch, obviously. And this time we get a high born heroine and a commoner hero. So sprinkle in even more angst.
There were a lot of similarities to The Highwayman - childhood friends violently separated, only later to be reunited, with the MMC going under an assumed identity. I'm embarrassed to say how long it took me to realize that both this book and The Highwayman are basically the romance versions of The Count of Monte Cristo. I mean there was literally a quote in the beginning of the book from The Count of Monte Cristo.
This book really did it for me in the angst and yearning department.
I think Maggie and Nicholas are one of my favorite Mimi couples -childhood loves wretched apart, waited ten years to find each other again, never giving up hope. That's, like, true love. Plus, they had amazing chemistry so you know the sex was hot.
Thank goodness I have more of Mimi's backlist to get me through until Return to Satterthwaite Court comes out!
What a book!
Thoroughly enjoyed this! The characters, the dialogue, the wit, that steamy romance and...oh my!!... That satisfying end!
Mimi Mathews is my new favourite, go-to author!
Thoroughly enjoyed this! The characters, the dialogue, the wit, that steamy romance and...oh my!!... That satisfying end!
Mimi Mathews is my new favourite, go-to author!
