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nbvanderhyden 's review for:
My Sweet Folly
by Laura Kinsale
Really liked this one! The letters are perfect at the beginning. The ending went on a little long and then just stopped, but it was a great read. My second favorite by Kinsale.
Real review:
This book starts STRONG with an epistolary component as Folie and Robert, our MC’s get to know each other. It’s hilarious and adorable. Robert is the cousin of Folie’s much older husband and though a few years of correspondence, they basically fall in love. Folie’s husband dies and when Folie makes a comment about going to India (where Robert is stationed) he tells her not to because he’s been married this whole time. GASP.
(But don’t worry. He wasn’t emotionally cheating on his wife because they had a terrible relationship where she physically cheated on him.)
Ten years later, Robert’s wife is dead, he is back in England and happens to be the guardian of Folie’s much older husband’s daughter. He orders the girls to move to the country to live with him and then things get weird. He acts like a completely different person, ie not caring about Folie, and has become a paranoid hermit, not letting anyone leave the house.
Every now and then, he will crack and they will kiss, but it takes a compromising situation to actually get them together. In true LK fashion, a lot is happening including blackmail, political spill-over from Robert’s time in India and, of course, the man his first wife cheated on him with.
The second half of the story was less fun than the first, which is why it places as 2nd in my ranking of LK books. The angst of the second chance was a bit overshadowed by all the Plot. But in closing, I still very much recommend this one.
Alrighty, they have kissed and I’ve told you about it!
Real review:
This book starts STRONG with an epistolary component as Folie and Robert, our MC’s get to know each other. It’s hilarious and adorable. Robert is the cousin of Folie’s much older husband and though a few years of correspondence, they basically fall in love. Folie’s husband dies and when Folie makes a comment about going to India (where Robert is stationed) he tells her not to because he’s been married this whole time. GASP.
(But don’t worry. He wasn’t emotionally cheating on his wife because they had a terrible relationship where she physically cheated on him.)
Ten years later, Robert’s wife is dead, he is back in England and happens to be the guardian of Folie’s much older husband’s daughter. He orders the girls to move to the country to live with him and then things get weird. He acts like a completely different person, ie not caring about Folie, and has become a paranoid hermit, not letting anyone leave the house.
Every now and then, he will crack and they will kiss, but it takes a compromising situation to actually get them together. In true LK fashion, a lot is happening including blackmail, political spill-over from Robert’s time in India and, of course, the man his first wife cheated on him with.
The second half of the story was less fun than the first, which is why it places as 2nd in my ranking of LK books. The angst of the second chance was a bit overshadowed by all the Plot. But in closing, I still very much recommend this one.
Alrighty, they have kissed and I’ve told you about it!