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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
funny
hopeful
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
funny
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
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:
Yes
This was so delightful, such a playful, quirky book. I love stories like this that just make me feel *happy* to read!
My favorite thing was the way the burgeoning familial relationship between Emmie/Will and George/Rose was portrayed, it was so sweetly genuine. How they actually really cared about the childrens well-being, truly trying to authentically earn and keep their trust…not just using them to get what they needed and maybe try to help them too…if it doesn’t get in the way of their plans too much. It was so refreshing!
I was so enamored with the dynamic between Emmie/Will and George/Rose, that it would have been more than enough to keep me happily content with the story. Honestly, I could have lived without the whole James drama, it felt a little forced. Thankfully it was a fairly short aspect of the story, so didn’t really detract from my overall enjoyment.
This is not a spicy romance but a gentle, sweet blossoming of love which I personally really enjoyed. Overall such a wholesome, fun read and I really adored it.
My favorite thing was the way the burgeoning familial relationship between Emmie/Will and George/Rose was portrayed, it was so sweetly genuine. How they actually really cared about the childrens well-being, truly trying to authentically earn and keep their trust…not just using them to get what they needed and maybe try to help them too…if it doesn’t get in the way of their plans too much. It was so refreshing!
I was so enamored with the dynamic between Emmie/Will and George/Rose, that it would have been more than enough to keep me happily content with the story. Honestly, I could have lived without the whole James drama, it felt a little forced. Thankfully it was a fairly short aspect of the story, so didn’t really detract from my overall enjoyment.
This is not a spicy romance but a gentle, sweet blossoming of love which I personally really enjoyed. Overall such a wholesome, fun read and I really adored it.
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Este libro fue tan bueno que di la hora con el el epílogo solo para no terminarlo, porque una vez terminado sabía que su historia habría terminado y no quería dejar ir a Rose, George, Emmie y Will. Simplemente no quería que sus aventuras y mentiras terminaran.
Este libro fue una completa sorpresa. Y si, completa sorpresa, porque hace mucho que no leía novela histórica y una tan buena cómo está me hizo regresar a un género que hace mucho tiempo había dejado de lado.
Will y Emmie fueron todo lo que esperaba: juntos como amigos eran geniales, pero como pareja verdaderamente enamorada eran lo máximo. Y los pequeños hermano: George y Rose eran una delicia. George preocupada constantemente por su hermana pequeña y pensado que están solos en este mundo y solo pueden confiar el uno y en el otro. Y, la pequeña Rose, una belleza de niña, que solo quiere pasarla bien y disfrutar de espadear y bailar ballet.
De verdad TIENEN que leer este libro si quieren algo refrescante, lleno de aventuras y travesuras de niños pequeños.
Este libro fue una completa sorpresa. Y si, completa sorpresa, porque hace mucho que no leía novela histórica y una tan buena cómo está me hizo regresar a un género que hace mucho tiempo había dejado de lado.
Will y Emmie fueron todo lo que esperaba: juntos como amigos eran geniales, pero como pareja verdaderamente enamorada eran lo máximo. Y los pequeños hermano: George y Rose eran una delicia. George preocupada constantemente por su hermana pequeña y pensado que están solos en este mundo y solo pueden confiar el uno y en el otro. Y, la pequeña Rose, una belleza de niña, que solo quiere pasarla bien y disfrutar de espadear y bailar ballet.
De verdad TIENEN que leer este libro si quieren algo refrescante, lleno de aventuras y travesuras de niños pequeños.
Liked the story, but the narrator for the audiobook did NOT match which made it less enjoyable.
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Not too much romance however very sweet story about borrowed children.
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
To be fair, I went into this book extremely wary of the premise. Using children just long enough to keep an inheritance? Even if the point was that the couple would grow and see them as actually human beings, it's still starting your book by having your couple dig themselves a hole.
But I also thought it might be an opportunity for a relatively rare couple dynamic. A marriage of convenience where the man is secretly in love and the woman thinks it's just a business arrangement. The book is just too jam packed with things happening to really properly show any of that growth though.
The realization that our couple do maybe actually want to be parents was perhaps the best developed but it still contained a lot of have wavey "they're rapscallions but of course they can't trust us and they bring us joy."
The way working as a team to parent (kind of) the kids helps Will and Emmeline to see each other in a new light is so underdeveloped the I almost missed when they actually admitted they were interested in each other as more than business partners.
I don't think the book had to be open door or more explicit, but the emotional development was just not there?
And the threat of the dastardly brother, thrown in for conflict and an outside threat, really distracted from what I wanted which was the development of this family and their life towards each other.
I will say that perhaps the best thing for readers might be that even when they resolve they're relationship, at least at the end of the book there is no magical pregnancy planted by the power of love. Wherever fertility struggles Emmeline had do seen to persist even after she and Will become adoptive parents. (Even this! Underdeveloped! What are Emmeline's and Will's feelings around their struggles to have children???)
Anyway, ymmv but I was frustrated.
But I also thought it might be an opportunity for a relatively rare couple dynamic. A marriage of convenience where the man is secretly in love and the woman thinks it's just a business arrangement. The book is just too jam packed with things happening to really properly show any of that growth though.
The realization that our couple do maybe actually want to be parents was perhaps the best developed but it still contained a lot of have wavey "they're rapscallions but of course they can't trust us and they bring us joy."
The way working as a team to parent (kind of) the kids helps Will and Emmeline to see each other in a new light is so underdeveloped the I almost missed when they actually admitted they were interested in each other as more than business partners.
I don't think the book had to be open door or more explicit, but the emotional development was just not there?
And the threat of the dastardly brother, thrown in for conflict and an outside threat, really distracted from what I wanted which was the development of this family and their life towards each other.
I will say that perhaps the best thing for readers might be that even when they resolve they're relationship, at least at the end of the book there is no magical pregnancy planted by the power of love. Wherever fertility struggles Emmeline had do seen to persist even after she and Will become adoptive parents. (Even this! Underdeveloped! What are Emmeline's and Will's feelings around their struggles to have children???)
Anyway, ymmv but I was frustrated.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Bullying, Death of parent, Abandonment, Classism
Minor: Infertility
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated