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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
Finally a book that gave me a break from all the tears. Still tugged at my heartstrings, but not enough to make me bawl
Continuing my pattern of reading romance series out of order, I picked this one up from the uncatalogued paperbacks at my library. I have plenty on my to-read pile, but this seemed like the right book last night.
Burrowes knows how to write fun historical romances. Her story was well written and held my interest much too late into the night. I would read more of her books when I am looking for a guilty pleasure.
Grace Burrowes has only been published for a couple of years. I would recommend her series to any historical romance reader who hasn't discovered her yet.
Burrowes knows how to write fun historical romances. Her story was well written and held my interest much too late into the night. I would read more of her books when I am looking for a guilty pleasure.
Grace Burrowes has only been published for a couple of years. I would recommend her series to any historical romance reader who hasn't discovered her yet.
It's a wonderfully written book, as is the entire series, but I feel as though Burrowes draws out Maggie's secret just as touch too long for me. And the hero is just too good to be believable. He needed a bit more edge. Other than that, absolutely lovely. I'm looking forward to more.
Reread: 5 Feb 2014
So nearly two years after I first read this, I'm on a bit of Grace Burrowes marathon, after somehow missing NINE of her Lonely Lords and all of her MacGregor series. I must have been asleep.
This reads better the second time around, though I still wonder at how long Maggie's secret needed to be drawn out, and how she could have, given the way the Duke and Duchess of Moreland have always been portrayed, believed he would have fathered another child after his marriage.
That being said, I really did like the hero better the second time around, but it may be colored by how often Benjamin shows up in other books, if maybe he's just grown on me. One of the weaknesses of the Windham stories overall is that I feel like though the Windhams are supposed to be quite close, until the daughters had their own books, I'm not even sure I knew their names. The sons are much closer and interact much more with one another, while they seem to ignore the girls altogether in their own books, which is why the closeness Maggie has with her brothers seems a touch off to me, but that's, again, colored by my reading of the series as a whole.
Reread: 5 Feb 2014
So nearly two years after I first read this, I'm on a bit of Grace Burrowes marathon, after somehow missing NINE of her Lonely Lords and all of her MacGregor series. I must have been asleep.
This reads better the second time around, though I still wonder at how long Maggie's secret needed to be drawn out, and how she could have, given the way the Duke and Duchess of Moreland have always been portrayed, believed he would have fathered another child after his marriage.
That being said, I really did like the hero better the second time around, but it may be colored by how often Benjamin shows up in other books, if maybe he's just grown on me. One of the weaknesses of the Windham stories overall is that I feel like though the Windhams are supposed to be quite close, until the daughters had their own books, I'm not even sure I knew their names. The sons are much closer and interact much more with one another, while they seem to ignore the girls altogether in their own books, which is why the closeness Maggie has with her brothers seems a touch off to me, but that's, again, colored by my reading of the series as a whole.
I am going to preface my thoughts about this book by saying that I did actually like it. I just want to get that out there because there may be times when it might sound differently.
Maggie Windham is an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Moreland, however she has been formally adopted by the Duke and Duchess and so has grown up as part of the large extended Windham family. She has, however, always known that she is different from her brothers and sisters. She is both part of the family and set apart from it by the circumstances of her birth. She knows that, for her, there will be no brilliant marriage match and so she has instead sought to make herself completely independent. In doing so Maggie has shown good intuition when it comes to the making of money and so is independently wealthy.
Benjamin Hazlit is an investigator who has been hired to perform various tasks for Maggie's family. He too knows what it is like to be both part of and apart from his family and in this aspect, he and Maggie are a good match! Another reason for this is because Benjamin is a man with big secrets of his own, and Maggie has been hiding a very big secret from her family for years.
For further thoughts in relation to this book head to my full review at
http://www.theintrepidreader.com/2012/05/lady-maggies-secret-scandal-by-grace.html
Maggie Windham is an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Moreland, however she has been formally adopted by the Duke and Duchess and so has grown up as part of the large extended Windham family. She has, however, always known that she is different from her brothers and sisters. She is both part of the family and set apart from it by the circumstances of her birth. She knows that, for her, there will be no brilliant marriage match and so she has instead sought to make herself completely independent. In doing so Maggie has shown good intuition when it comes to the making of money and so is independently wealthy.
Benjamin Hazlit is an investigator who has been hired to perform various tasks for Maggie's family. He too knows what it is like to be both part of and apart from his family and in this aspect, he and Maggie are a good match! Another reason for this is because Benjamin is a man with big secrets of his own, and Maggie has been hiding a very big secret from her family for years.
For further thoughts in relation to this book head to my full review at
http://www.theintrepidreader.com/2012/05/lady-maggies-secret-scandal-by-grace.html
Nice writing, although the author may need to step back from the thesaurus a bit. Great character development, plot, and chemistry. Will be checking out her other books now.