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superwendy 's review for:
Say Yes to the Marquess
by Tessa Dare
I feel like I should have loved this - but....meh. Dare is likely the finest practitioner of "light historicals" working today and I adored the emotional heft of this story (Clio's yearning for her own identity, her feelings of inadequacy, Lord - it's just fantastic stuff!) that was lurking under the cotton candy shell. The author has a way of giving you the glittery pink bow while ripping your heart out at the same time. I mean, it's really amazing.
That said, this just seemed to go on forever. I mean, on and on and on. Maybe it was the all the wedding nonsense that wore me out. Or the fact that the characters kept talking in circles. Or the fact that it takes Clio forever to tell her family she wants to call off the engagement and that she wants Rafe to do the dirty work of signing the dissolution papers but won't pull the trigger herself (actually I loved this scene in the book when Rafe throws that in her face).
Also there's very little background on the Piers/Clio "relationship," such as it is. It takes so long for the author to mention correspondence between them that I spent the first 50% of the book thinking, "What? I'm supposed to believe they never wrote letters to each other?!" This is the kind of thing I nit-pick to death though.
So yeah. It just went on way too long for me and I started to find some of the characters insufferable after a bit. It's romantic. The emotional "stuff" is amazing in parts. But it never really clicked for me - and dog knows why.
That said, this just seemed to go on forever. I mean, on and on and on. Maybe it was the all the wedding nonsense that wore me out. Or the fact that the characters kept talking in circles. Or the fact that it takes Clio forever to tell her family she wants to call off the engagement and that she wants Rafe to do the dirty work of signing the dissolution papers but won't pull the trigger herself (actually I loved this scene in the book when Rafe throws that in her face).
Also there's very little background on the Piers/Clio "relationship," such as it is. It takes so long for the author to mention correspondence between them that I spent the first 50% of the book thinking, "What? I'm supposed to believe they never wrote letters to each other?!" This is the kind of thing I nit-pick to death though.
So yeah. It just went on way too long for me and I started to find some of the characters insufferable after a bit. It's romantic. The emotional "stuff" is amazing in parts. But it never really clicked for me - and dog knows why.