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Title: Love With the Proper Husband by Victoria Alexander ISBN: 0-06-000145-3 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Warm, witty and delightful
Comment: Love With the Proper Husband is warm, witty and delightful. It is fast-paced, unfailingly entertaining and full of thoroughly lovable characters.
Penniless Miss Gwendolyn Townsend is called back to England from the post she loathes as a governess in America. She is thrilled to find out that she has a small legacy and that she will have a fortune if she does just one thing. Unfortunately, the one thing turns out to be to marry Marcus Holcroft, Earl of Pennington, a man she considers insufferably arrogant. Besides, she has no desire to marry anyone now that she finally has the means to be independent.
Marcus is incredulous to find out soon before he turns thirty that his deceased father left a will saying that, failing to find a different bride earlier, Marcus must marry Gwen before he is thirty or lose his whole fortune. (Something else is afoot, of course, in this situation that the reader knows but the characters don't.) After repeatedly refusing Marcus, Gwen abruptly agrees to marry him-but only because she develops a secret life for which she must have money.
It is hilarious, romantic and just plain fun watching Marcus and Gwen's growing relationship. And it is beautiful how warm and caring their relationship eventually becomes. Marcus' knack for lightening any situation and his easy forgiveness of Gwen's faults is endearing. Their wedding night is a hoot-funny, unexpected yet utterly passionate and romantic.
The other characters are equally lovable and endearing-especially the three nieces and the two Madames are wonderful, as is Marcus' mother. She puts on quite a show for Marcus early in the novel-I wish we could have seen even more of her.
The only weakness I noticed was that the last plot twist concerning the nieces is not really believable. Despite this, Love With the Proper Husband is a genuinely fun and absorbing novel that should not be missed!
Rating: 3
Summary: A Good Read
Comment: An interesting story, with good characters. Gwen was wonderful, she was lovely and smart (most of the time) and Marcus wasn't bad. I don't know, something was lacking with this hero for me. Didn't quite feel he was 'all that'. His friend Reggie was much more interesting.
I have only recently discovered this author, and I liked HER HIGHNESS, MY WIFE, much better.
Rating: 1
Summary: Boring. Boring. Boring.
Comment: Positively the most boring romance I've ever read. I had to struggle to get through it. Usually once I start, I can't put a book down, and I'll stay up all night to finish it. This one took me three days to finish, and it felt like WORK! The only interesting bit was the kid who kept asking for a dog, and nobody ever got her one! I'll never pick up this author again, and I would HIGHLY recommend that you look elsewhere for a good summer beach book.
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Title: The Wedding Bargain by Victoria Alexander ISBN: 0380806290 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn ISBN: 0380820854 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Her Highness, My Wife by Victoria Alexander ISBN: 0060001445 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Prince's Bride by Victoria Alexander ISBN: 0380818213 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 04 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Husband List by Victoria Alexander ISBN: 0380806312 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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