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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
What a silly little book! Certainly not correct in the details, but oh so funny written!
Sometimes I don't mind a little incorrectness in a historical romance. So what if it isn't accurate and the heroine blurts out some phrases that nobody back then would have understood? Does the story flow? Do you want to read just one more line? Then it's a good book! Job well done! :)
I like romance novels now and again. I like them to be a bit steamy even. I LOVE historical romance novels. So when I stumbled across this one for free on B&N I thought why not? And it payed off with a delightful afternoon of "getting away" into another time and space. (It's no longer free, but at $0.99 not a bad deal either)
If you can suspend your common sense and shut up the little voice in your head SCREAMING that this would NEVER have happened this way, then this little book is a hoot to read!
It was just plain fun and honestly: The love scene was HOT! I will certainly look for more by this author.
I won't say more about the book, as it is really short (it's only a Novella after all) and if I say one more sentence then I probably give it all away. Well really one can guess the outcome by the third page, but it doesn't harm the story or the joy of reading. At least not in my opinion.
Sometimes I don't mind a little incorrectness in a historical romance. So what if it isn't accurate and the heroine blurts out some phrases that nobody back then would have understood? Does the story flow? Do you want to read just one more line? Then it's a good book! Job well done! :)
I like romance novels now and again. I like them to be a bit steamy even. I LOVE historical romance novels. So when I stumbled across this one for free on B&N I thought why not? And it payed off with a delightful afternoon of "getting away" into another time and space. (It's no longer free, but at $0.99 not a bad deal either)
If you can suspend your common sense and shut up the little voice in your head SCREAMING that this would NEVER have happened this way, then this little book is a hoot to read!
It was just plain fun and honestly: The love scene was HOT! I will certainly look for more by this author.
I won't say more about the book, as it is really short (it's only a Novella after all) and if I say one more sentence then I probably give it all away. Well really one can guess the outcome by the third page, but it doesn't harm the story or the joy of reading. At least not in my opinion.
Eloisa James always delivers a gem of a romance - even when the page count is restrained to the novella form.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Novellas are never easy to pull-off, but I really enjoyed this one. It’s a prelude to another book in the series. If only I’d reviewed it after reading. But I enjoyed it enough to perhaps read again. 4/5
good novella to go with the series. Although I felt that right when it was getting good, it just stopped. The story jumps to several years in the future to where Cyrus and Lucy are telling their story to their children
This was a bit of a disappointment for me. James usually has me eagerly turning the page but I wasn't excited at all by this. I was thankful for the length of this since neither of the characters clicked with me. I liked them well enough and wanted them to get their happy ending but had this been a full-length novel I might have skipped to the end.
Short and funny, this novella was a great way to start the new year. Plus, this story has me eagerly anticipating James's companion novel, The Duke is Mine. There were several laugh out loud moments and I appreciated the characters and dialog. All in all, I am pleased!
I apparently read this 7 years ago (I guess?) but I can't remember what I did last Tuesday, so I'll just pretend the past isn't a real country.
Short and sweet and utterly unbelievable, just how I like my historical romances. Not as funny as Tessa Dare's books, but nowhere near as cracky as some others out there, whose names I will refrain from mentioning. Well written and easy to read, though the pacing was a bit out there. I'll blame that on the novella format, necessitating a faster route from start to finish.
I'm a giant sucker for fairy tales and love retellings even more. I'm not entirely sure which fairy tale this was a riff on, but it had that fairy-godmother flavor so I'm not going to think too hard on that (best to not think to hard in general with this genre).
Short and sweet and utterly unbelievable, just how I like my historical romances. Not as funny as Tessa Dare's books, but nowhere near as cracky as some others out there, whose names I will refrain from mentioning. Well written and easy to read, though the pacing was a bit out there. I'll blame that on the novella format, necessitating a faster route from start to finish.
I'm a giant sucker for fairy tales and love retellings even more. I'm not entirely sure which fairy tale this was a riff on, but it had that fairy-godmother flavor so I'm not going to think too hard on that (best to not think to hard in general with this genre).
Lucy was interesting, but it was a little hard to buy Cyrus' transformation.
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Lucy was interesting, but it was a little hard to buy Cyrus' transformation.
Lucy Towerton certainly lives up to her name, standing tall above most of the men in the ton. But not her fiance. She is in deep infatuation with Cyrus. Cyrus is in deep infatuation with Lucy's family's station. His mother was the daughter of a duke who married a solicitor. Cyrus is determined to regain his family's place through marriage.
But then Lucy inherits her aunt's fortune and it seems certain that she will dump her fiance for a higher title.
Lucy decides that she doesn't want to be married for her breeding, she wants love. So she breaks it off with Cyrus. Not because she no longer wants to marry him, but she wants him to marry her for the right reasons. This suddenly makes her very attractive to Cyrus, where she was once only a means to an end.
Can these two crazy kids get it together and figure out that they're in love before it's too late?
But then Lucy inherits her aunt's fortune and it seems certain that she will dump her fiance for a higher title.
Lucy decides that she doesn't want to be married for her breeding, she wants love. So she breaks it off with Cyrus. Not because she no longer wants to marry him, but she wants him to marry her for the right reasons. This suddenly makes her very attractive to Cyrus, where she was once only a means to an end.
Can these two crazy kids get it together and figure out that they're in love before it's too late?
Will definitely look for more from this Author. It was quite well done for a short novella.