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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
4.5*
Una bonita historia romántica, muy bien escrita.
Me ha gustado especialmente el protagonista másculino, Roderick.
Estoy deseando leer las historias de las hermanas de Emma.
Una bonita historia romántica, muy bien escrita.
Me ha gustado especialmente el protagonista másculino, Roderick.
Estoy deseando leer las historias de las hermanas de Emma.
I really loved the characters in this book. They are captivating and engaging. I found myself skipping ahead to see what happened as some parts of the book were slower than others. Perhaps a re-read will allow me to enjoy every word without the pressure of what happened? Overall, I really enjoyed.
My introduction to Amy sandas. I'm so glad I picked up this book, the synopsis hooked me. Emma is a role model for women who will do & risk anything for family. Roderick is her opposite & we all know they attract! No spoiler but you will love the ending.
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
In keeping with the "reading-books-on-my-bookshelf at home" saga, I wanted to read something that was a bit more lighthearted than some of the heavy mysteries I've been reading, so I plucked this one off of the shelf. I used to LOVE reading historical romances, and it was all I read for a while, so it brought me some joy to kind of fall back into that. With all that being said, this book was so good. I loved the characters, I loved the story, I loved the writing. I may be easier to please when it comes to historical romances, but I thought this one was a really fun read.
I dunno, maybe it's me - but sometimes, the build-up is even better than the actual hook-up, y'know?
For the full review of the best "silly little romance novel" Alaina read in 2018, follow the link to That's What She Read.
For the full review of the best "silly little romance novel" Alaina read in 2018, follow the link to That's What She Read.
This book certainly had many great moments. I really liked Emma and the fact that she sought employment to help her family.
Oddly, despite the fact that I found the writing somewhat stilted, the book's plot and characters were enough to keep me speeding forward. Of course it takes place in a never-neverland of history (of course the gently-bred heroine decides to pay off her father's debts by working as a bookkeeper in a gaming house!) but it was just... fun, and not terribly upsetting in any way; nobody seemed particularly menacing and most people were generally nice.
Then the second part of the book happened, in which I won't be continuing the series.
Then the second part of the book happened, in which
Spoiler
the heroine waited until the last possible minute to accumulate the money to pay her father's debt because of course she couldn't accept a loan from the hero, with whom she is already in love and with whom she will eventually have sex despite their not being married; and the man who holds the debt gets impatient, kidnaps the heroine's younger sister, and sells her to a brothel. It's clearly a set-up for book two in the series but it upset and infuriated me, because I really don't like "virgin gets sold to a brothel" novels and the usual tone of such books - dark, menacing, sexy - does not at all match what this book was like. I thought I was reading a light regency romance about a spinster who likes math finding love with a base-born millionaire and all of a sudden the heroine's sister is getting abducted, drugged, and sold off to be raped. Yeah. The consequences of pretty much everything in this book were so light (no one gets ruined, no one is really chaperoned properly, even the villain is given a sympathetic motivation for collecting on his debt, etc.) that this came like a bolt out of nothing. (As a side note, I will be absolutely horrified if the villain is redeemed in a later novel; the set-up of his sympathetic reasoning seemed to be aimed in that direction. Right up until the abduction/selling to a brothel bit.)
4,5 stars
A super well written romance with very original characters full of sassiness, an original plot (an almost-lady who works !!) and the end ... One of the best marriage proposals EVER !!!
Can't wait to read the story about her sister Lily =D
A super well written romance with very original characters full of sassiness, an original plot (an almost-lady who works !!) and the end ... One of the best marriage proposals EVER !!!
Can't wait to read the story about her sister Lily =D