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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
An easy palette cleanser! Not my favorite of Quinn’s because the male lead was pretty unlikeable, but the banter was quick-witted, enjoyable and gave me a few chuckles. 3.5/5
fast-paced
it’s like she took all the worst traits of every love interest she’s written and put them into one man, love Miranda and Olivia though
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Sometimes I just want to read a silly romance novel - but so many of them are filled with dumb people doing dumb things, and I can't deal with it and have to throw the book violently across the room..... This is not one of those. It was pleasant - perhaps not amazing - and fun. Good characters, and enough snark flowing back and forth that it kept me interested and amused. Not quite up to Georgette Heyer or Jennifer Crusie levels of Witty Banter, but you can't have everything.
I don’t know which put the nail in the coffin on my dislike, but it could’ve been the fact that her pregnancies were the only thing to move this man to action, or the continued reference to her falling in love with him as a child while he was an adult, or the unbridled and purposeful selfishness of the love interest, or the childish aggression shown by both characters. No matter which did it in for me, this truly felt like a story of unrequited love that was met with obligation till the end. There’s a single line that Turner says that tries to reconcile the fact that he was loving what she did for him and not her, but a single line doesn’t resolve an entire book filled with that. In the end, it didn’t feel like love and that isn’t what I read romances for.
challenging
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Julia Quinn is one of my favorite romance authors, but this is not my favorite of her books. I've now read it twice because I couldn't remember what happened in it/wasn't sure I'd read it before. I had. It just wasn't that great. I liked that the heroine, Miranda, wasn't ravishingly beautiful, for a change. And there are some funny moments. But the hero, Turner, takes a ridiculous amount of time to realize he loves his wife, and in the meantime, he makes her miserable. Frankly, I found Turner to be irritating and thought Miranda really could have done better for herself.
This is the first book in the new Bevelstoke series, and the next book, What Happens in London, is one of my new favorites. Read that one instead of this one!
Typically Quinn writes books with both story and character doorways, but in this case, I don't think the characters are quite well-written enough to justify a character doorway label. However, I would say setting is a secondary doorway since it's an historical romance.
This is the first book in the new Bevelstoke series, and the next book, What Happens in London, is one of my new favorites. Read that one instead of this one!
Typically Quinn writes books with both story and character doorways, but in this case, I don't think the characters are quite well-written enough to justify a character doorway label. However, I would say setting is a secondary doorway since it's an historical romance.
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Fand die Story eigentlich ganz süß. Find's immer bisschen komisch wenn sie sich schon früher kennen also als sie ein Kind war und dann die Schwärmerei so weiter geht. Dann fand ich's so krass dass er nicht sagen konnte dass er sie liebt obwohls halt obvi so war aber das kann ich eigentlich noch verstehen . Ich mochte es außerdem voll, dass man noch ein bisschen Ehe der beiden mitbekommen hat und das Buch nicht einfach geendet hat als wie verheiratet waren. Das zusammen kommen und wie sich das alles aufgebaut hat war halt auch wieder top. Und natürlich hab ich's schnell durchgelesen. Ich lieb die Frau einfach, was soll ich sagen.