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booksforchristiangirls's review
This is a mini ‘Books For Christian Girls’ review. It is not a full content review and will not receive one. These mini-reviews are years old and just for clarity on the rating the book received on Goodreads.
3/4/2015-
"Stopped at page 220. Not clean, not worth the read for me. "
*Main Content-
Drake (in his point of view) notices Julia's chest; Mentions of Drake's past affair and his plan to have a mistress after he's married.
3/4/2015-
"Stopped at page 220. Not clean, not worth the read for me. "
*Main Content-
Drake (in his point of view) notices Julia's chest; Mentions of Drake's past affair and his plan to have a mistress after he's married.
annascottcross's review
4.0
Julia Witherington has sworn to hate William Ransome forever. After knowing him since she was ten, they courted for a while. Then, William got a promotion and suddenly broke things off just when everyone was expecting an engagement. Seeing this as he was using her to get close to her father, Admiral Sir Edward, she is broken hearted and returns to her home in Jamaica. Fast forward twelve years, and Julia is back in England since her mother's death. Not only does she miss her home in Jamaica, but her Aunt Augusta Pembroke is living with her as a companion and meanwhile making Julia's life miserable.
During the time that Julia was in Jamaica, William has gone from a poor lieutenant to a wealthy captain. On leave while his boat, the Alexandra, he travels to see his best friend Collin Yates and his wife Susan, who is also Julia's best friend. His return to Portsmouth has set all of the local gossips in a tizzy, each talking about Julia and William and speculating as to whether or not they would get back together after all these years.
Upon meeting each other for the first time in twelve years, they both regret the way things ended between them, but not enough to attempt picking up where they left off. Then Julia finds out about something her aunt and cousin, Sir Drake, are planning. In order to avoid being forced to marry her despicable cousin who would only marry her so that her dowry could pay for his gambling debts, she must do something drastic: marry the man she swore to hate. Her plan is simple - marry him, go with him on his trip to Jamaica, and after a year the marriage can be annulled and William will walk away with her thirty-thousand pound dowry and she will be happily settled in her childhood home in Jamaica. What she doesn't expect, though, is that even before they are married, neither of them will want the annulment.
This was another 24 hour read for me. It was so good I couldn't help it. I loved Julia, with her determined independence and caring nature. It was so nice to not have a damsel-in-distress scenario, especially with historical fiction. William I liked - I think I will like him more in the next book, since in this book he spent most of the time trying to keep up with Julia and make this engagement work, so not a ton of character development happened. The characters were all well developed and characterized, and had me constantly laughing.
This book was a pleasant surprise in that it was incredibly clean. There was an almost kiss when they were engaged (very non-detailed), and a kiss after they were married (also non-detailed). Other than that, nothing. There were a few mentions of low necklines. One was in the context of William wishing his sister's were higher, and the other was Sir Drake, but for a not so moral a purpose. The only other edgy thing was that Drake had the opinion of "it didn't matter who he married, because after they were married and had an heir, he could keep whoever's company he wanted." But again, nondescript and that was pretty much how the book phrased it.
My one complaint about this book is that it didn't seem to be as climactic as it could have been. Like I mentioned earlier, William and Julia both liked each other decently before they were engaged, Julia's whole "sworn hate" thing dissolved after the second time she saw him, and then once they were engaged, everything remained the same between them, except that they now had this whole engagement thing to uphold. To me it would have been better if they had disliked each other more in the beginning, and then had a climactic moment where they forgave each other and embraced their situation. But that is just my thought...
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was very Austen-y, and it really was like Persuasion mixed with a dash of Pride and Prejudice to create a whole new story.
During the time that Julia was in Jamaica, William has gone from a poor lieutenant to a wealthy captain. On leave while his boat, the Alexandra, he travels to see his best friend Collin Yates and his wife Susan, who is also Julia's best friend. His return to Portsmouth has set all of the local gossips in a tizzy, each talking about Julia and William and speculating as to whether or not they would get back together after all these years.
Upon meeting each other for the first time in twelve years, they both regret the way things ended between them, but not enough to attempt picking up where they left off. Then Julia finds out about something her aunt and cousin, Sir Drake, are planning. In order to avoid being forced to marry her despicable cousin who would only marry her so that her dowry could pay for his gambling debts, she must do something drastic: marry the man she swore to hate. Her plan is simple - marry him, go with him on his trip to Jamaica, and after a year the marriage can be annulled and William will walk away with her thirty-thousand pound dowry and she will be happily settled in her childhood home in Jamaica. What she doesn't expect, though, is that even before they are married, neither of them will want the annulment.
This was another 24 hour read for me. It was so good I couldn't help it. I loved Julia, with her determined independence and caring nature. It was so nice to not have a damsel-in-distress scenario, especially with historical fiction. William I liked - I think I will like him more in the next book, since in this book he spent most of the time trying to keep up with Julia and make this engagement work, so not a ton of character development happened. The characters were all well developed and characterized, and had me constantly laughing.
This book was a pleasant surprise in that it was incredibly clean. There was an almost kiss when they were engaged (very non-detailed), and a kiss after they were married (also non-detailed). Other than that, nothing. There were a few mentions of low necklines. One was in the context of William wishing his sister's were higher, and the other was Sir Drake, but for a not so moral a purpose. The only other edgy thing was that Drake had the opinion of "it didn't matter who he married, because after they were married and had an heir, he could keep whoever's company he wanted." But again, nondescript and that was pretty much how the book phrased it.
My one complaint about this book is that it didn't seem to be as climactic as it could have been. Like I mentioned earlier, William and Julia both liked each other decently before they were engaged, Julia's whole "sworn hate" thing dissolved after the second time she saw him, and then once they were engaged, everything remained the same between them, except that they now had this whole engagement thing to uphold. To me it would have been better if they had disliked each other more in the beginning, and then had a climactic moment where they forgave each other and embraced their situation. But that is just my thought...
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was very Austen-y, and it really was like Persuasion mixed with a dash of Pride and Prejudice to create a whole new story.
melaluke's review
3.0
I liked this book quite a bit--it definitely has a Persuasion plotline, but I'm always game for that. I was assuming we would get to see their relationship develop more, based on the synopsis.
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