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A review by ljjohnson8
First Comes Marriage by Mary Balogh
3.0
I was a lucky winner of this book through the First Reads contest, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I read my first romance the summer I was 15, and I have read several a year ever since. Romances are my guilty pleasure, though I really don't feel guilty about them. But I don't read them constantly - it would be like a steady diet of chocolate and red licorice; both a great treat but sickening if indulged in constantly. This was my first title by Mary Balogh though she's written many. She fits in perfectly with my other favorite romance writers: Jude Deveraux, Julie Garwood, Judith McNaught and those ladies who started it all like Rosemary Rogers, Valerie Sherwood, Kathleen Woodiwess.
This is the first of a series about the Huxtable family and its heroine is Vanessa, the second oldest sister. Like the best romance heroines, she infuriates, confuses, and enraptures her one true love, the Viscount Lyngate. There is plenty of humor, a little intrigue, a great proposal scene, and a luscious time in a field of daffodils. I will definitely read the next Huxtable novel.
I read my first romance the summer I was 15, and I have read several a year ever since. Romances are my guilty pleasure, though I really don't feel guilty about them. But I don't read them constantly - it would be like a steady diet of chocolate and red licorice; both a great treat but sickening if indulged in constantly. This was my first title by Mary Balogh though she's written many. She fits in perfectly with my other favorite romance writers: Jude Deveraux, Julie Garwood, Judith McNaught and those ladies who started it all like Rosemary Rogers, Valerie Sherwood, Kathleen Woodiwess.
This is the first of a series about the Huxtable family and its heroine is Vanessa, the second oldest sister. Like the best romance heroines, she infuriates, confuses, and enraptures her one true love, the Viscount Lyngate. There is plenty of humor, a little intrigue, a great proposal scene, and a luscious time in a field of daffodils. I will definitely read the next Huxtable novel.