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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
I wish the ending had been more developed, but overall this was pretty good.
When I began this book, I thought I was going to love it. It is this author's retelling of Das dappelte Lottchen -- probably more commonly known by the name of the movie Hollywood called it, The Parent Trap.
It starts out great with the two 17 y.o. brothers discovering each other. Of course they trade places. The one who grew up with his cold father goes to live on the Continent with his loving, warm mother while the other son travels to England to masquerade as the heir.
The story does best when it is allowing the switched brothers react to their new environments and we watch as they interact with their unsuspecting stranger-parent. However when it has to address the love, marriage and romance between Georgina and her bitter ex-husband Ash, it stumbles.
My Full Review Here
It starts out great with the two 17 y.o. brothers discovering each other. Of course they trade places. The one who grew up with his cold father goes to live on the Continent with his loving, warm mother while the other son travels to England to masquerade as the heir.
The story does best when it is allowing the switched brothers react to their new environments and we watch as they interact with their unsuspecting stranger-parent. However when it has to address the love, marriage and romance between Georgina and her bitter ex-husband Ash, it stumbles.
My Full Review Here
My first book by this author. Its quite a short book full of feelings of betrayal and angst, and a spiteful mother(in-law).
My review for this book will be posted on The Romancing the Book Blog in the near future!
Sort of torn on what to rate this one. It's not "my thing" but that doesn't mean it wasn't a good book. Just maybe not quite for me. I'm not the greatest fan of the stodgy/straitlaced Regency hero, unless he happens to be Mr. Darcy himself.
Mostly, the 17 years apart is just too sad for me. Ten is about my max and that's pushing it. Also, with this being an admitted homage to The Parent Trap, it's kid heavy - also not my thing.
This was a mature book as far as how the resolution went. The h, particularly, was able to step back and see things through the eyes of the young adults they had been and forgive the hero's and her own mistakes. Her own sons are only a few years younger than she and the hero were when it all hit the fan, and she knows her sons are good men in the making... but not yet exactly men. She applies this revelation to the events of the past. This theme follows through in both the H/h's past actions and the H's cousin who is the falsely accused third party in the love triangle that was not.
All very nice and mature, but I love my wrecky crazy messes (in fiction), so I didn't get the explosive reunion I wanted. Instead, probably true to the time and position of the H/h, I got two very restrained, uptight aristocrats trying to maintain social decorum in a crazy situation. Alas, no blackmail or amnesia. Scheming mother-in-law though. She was the most OTT character.
There were definitely some real emotions felt and I cried a tear or two. Overall I'm giving it a 3, I suppose.
Mostly, the 17 years apart is just too sad for me. Ten is about my max and that's pushing it. Also, with this being an admitted homage to The Parent Trap, it's kid heavy - also not my thing.
This was a mature book as far as how the resolution went. The h, particularly, was able to step back and see things through the eyes of the young adults they had been and forgive the hero's and her own mistakes. Her own sons are only a few years younger than she and the hero were when it all hit the fan, and she knows her sons are good men in the making... but not yet exactly men. She applies this revelation to the events of the past. This theme follows through in both the H/h's past actions and the H's cousin who is the falsely accused third party in the love triangle that was not.
All very nice and mature, but I love my wrecky crazy messes (in fiction), so I didn't get the explosive reunion I wanted. Instead, probably true to the time and position of the H/h, I got two very restrained, uptight aristocrats trying to maintain social decorum in a crazy situation. Alas, no blackmail or amnesia. Scheming mother-in-law though. She was the most OTT character.
There were definitely some real emotions felt and I cried a tear or two. Overall I'm giving it a 3, I suppose.