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ipomoea 's review for:
The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband
by Julia Quinn
I received a copy from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
This is it, y'all. This is my least-favorite Julia Quinn (and I'm still giving it three stars).
I really don't like the consent/lack thereof involved in amnesiac marriages, and even Quinn can't save this one for me.
Cecilia is faced with either marrying an awful cousin, or moving in with an awful aunt. She instead chooses to go to the Colonies (AKA US) and find her brother. Instead, she finds his best friend, whom she'd written with through her brother's correspondence. Desperate to find out about her brother, she pretends to be his best friend's wife. And when that friend wakes up, he's lost much of his memory, so sure, why not a wife?
I really wasn't into the characters, but for this, I loved the setting of the Revolutionary War. Cecilia and Edward aren't very memorable characters, but it's rare that I read a romance set actually in a war zone. Taking characters raised with a certain set of social norms and mores and dropping them in a world where it doesn't matter at all is interesting, and something I'm always happy to read.
This is it, y'all. This is my least-favorite Julia Quinn (and I'm still giving it three stars).
I really don't like the consent/lack thereof involved in amnesiac marriages, and even Quinn can't save this one for me.
Cecilia is faced with either marrying an awful cousin, or moving in with an awful aunt. She instead chooses to go to the Colonies (AKA US) and find her brother. Instead, she finds his best friend, whom she'd written with through her brother's correspondence. Desperate to find out about her brother, she pretends to be his best friend's wife. And when that friend wakes up, he's lost much of his memory, so sure, why not a wife?
I really wasn't into the characters, but for this, I loved the setting of the Revolutionary War. Cecilia and Edward aren't very memorable characters, but it's rare that I read a romance set actually in a war zone. Taking characters raised with a certain set of social norms and mores and dropping them in a world where it doesn't matter at all is interesting, and something I'm always happy to read.