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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It wasn't a bad book, but it didn't provide the excitement I was expecting, which caused me to stop reading for a few days before finally returning to finish it.
Ok fair i get why this one was good but did we really need the male nipples to get here?
Solid moment when he roasted that justin dude tho
Solid moment when he roasted that justin dude tho
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I am sad that I am done with the series and the Simply Quartet series. I will miss the Bedwyn's. I liked some stories more than others, but I enjoyed the family as a whole.
The best of the entire series. LOVE this book so much I read it at least twice a year!
A perfect start to a new year. What an incredible rendition of Pride and Prejudice. Pretty sure I'm about to devour Balogh's entire backlist.
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I liked the book and it's very readable but their dinamic wasn't my favourite and Wulfric's character doesn't convince me.
Note: This review concerns the series overall, not just this book.
Mary Balogh is lucky she knows how to write charming characters and amusing plots. She is also lucky that Goodreads ratings ask you how much you LIKE the book as opposed to how good a book is. In terms of goodness, this series, is really a 1.5 or 2. But in terms of light, thoughtless enjoyability, it's a 3.
The historical setting hangs on by a tenuous thread, and the characters are constantly getting themselves into situations that make no sense for the time period or are just completely anachronistic. And every single character has sex before they are married, simply because the setups of all the books is that the marriage is the very last thing that happens, and we must get some sex written in before then. Now, I'm not prude, and I know that as far back as time itself, many (most?) people did not ultimately wait until marriage to have sex, but considering the time period and the amount of chaperonage that SHOULD have been going on, the chances of ALL SIX COUPLES getting to bump uglies prior to the wedding breakfast are unlikely.
Mary Balogh is like a racier version of Georgette Heyer, with less of a sense of real historical accuracy. However, she is able to write charming, likeable characters and intriguing plots. These books are light, easy, fast reads (I read all 6 while reading TWO other books -- one about a child growing up under the Pol Pot regime, the other about a WWII PW in Malaysia) but I don't know how much I would have been disposed to like them if I hadn't also been reading at the time (see above) some very difficult, depressing books and needed some moments of light silly fluff.
Only one book -- the 3rd -- did I think warranted anything better than 3 stars, and I am still contemplating whether or not any of them deserve only 2 instead of the 3 I have given them.
Mary Balogh is lucky she knows how to write charming characters and amusing plots. She is also lucky that Goodreads ratings ask you how much you LIKE the book as opposed to how good a book is. In terms of goodness, this series, is really a 1.5 or 2. But in terms of light, thoughtless enjoyability, it's a 3.
The historical setting hangs on by a tenuous thread, and the characters are constantly getting themselves into situations that make no sense for the time period or are just completely anachronistic. And every single character has sex before they are married, simply because the setups of all the books is that the marriage is the very last thing that happens, and we must get some sex written in before then. Now, I'm not prude, and I know that as far back as time itself, many (most?) people did not ultimately wait until marriage to have sex, but considering the time period and the amount of chaperonage that SHOULD have been going on, the chances of ALL SIX COUPLES getting to bump uglies prior to the wedding breakfast are unlikely.
Mary Balogh is like a racier version of Georgette Heyer, with less of a sense of real historical accuracy. However, she is able to write charming, likeable characters and intriguing plots. These books are light, easy, fast reads (I read all 6 while reading TWO other books -- one about a child growing up under the Pol Pot regime, the other about a WWII PW in Malaysia) but I don't know how much I would have been disposed to like them if I hadn't also been reading at the time (see above) some very difficult, depressing books and needed some moments of light silly fluff.
Only one book -- the 3rd -- did I think warranted anything better than 3 stars, and I am still contemplating whether or not any of them deserve only 2 instead of the 3 I have given them.
My main problem with this book is the hero. A more dull, humorless character I have never seen! I suppose that I was supposed to see a warmer side of him towards the end of the book, but I never could figure out what Christine saw in him. And she was a little too perfect in that "men are always drawn to her" way. I haven't read the others in the series, but I hear they are better.