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Title: To Marry the Duke by Julianne MacLean ISBN: 0-06-052704-8 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (21 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Sophia's passionate devotion - why?
Comment: American heiress Sophia Wilson will not allow herself to be presented like a raspberry custard. A pudding on a platter, for all the English gentlemen to sniff and taste, just to see if they relish the flavor. No, she will not - despite her mother's wishes. Hence begins Julianne MacLean's tale "To Marry the Duke."
Lively Sophia is a rarity among the haughty, reserved Victorian society. This beautiful young woman totes great American wealth and she perks the interest of the blue-blooded males. However, Sophia positively resents being a display piece, but her mother wants the key to unlock society's lofty acceptance and Sophia will get that key. Yet, Sophia plans to hold out for love.
James Langdon, the Duke of Wentworth has Mrs. Wilson's key -- a well-established noble title. He also has a poverty-stricken dukedom. When the Duke of Wentworth views the lovely sultry Sophia, he views through lustful eyes heavily encased in dollars signs. This aloof man also totes enough emotional baggage to give the lovable Sophia her own key -- to Bedlam. And so Julianne MacLean establishes the matrimonial journey of sweet Sophia Wilson and the obscure Duke of Wentworth.
Nevertheless, it is Ms. MacLean's writing style that saves this book, for her stereotyped characters are burdensome. Sophia is too happy, too forgiving, and far too understanding when dealing with the bewilderment of her marriage. James Langdon is too remote, too brisk, and far too unconvincing when recalling his traumatic childhood. Yet, MacLean wants us to believe these two people still managed to have a field day in the marriage bed. Whatever! Sorry, this illogicality did not win me over. Nonetheless, Julianne MacLean's writing form is still smooth and clean.
A bonus, at the end of the book, the author explains the migration wealthy American women followed at the close of the nineteenth century. These affluent women crossed the Atlantic, arrived on English soil, and were ready to marry into the British upperclass. This gratifying historical note defined the story nicely.
Grace Atkinson, Ontario - Canada.
Rating: 5
Summary: An emotional and satisfying read
Comment: No wonder this book is selling like hotcakes! TO MARRY THE DUKE is fabulous! My eyes are red and gritty from reading too long - I just could not put it down! The sexual awareness sizzles between the beautiful American heiress, Sophia, and her impoverished English duke, James, throughout their courtship. But the real love story begins once they return from their honeymoon. Can the warm-hearted, generous Sophia break through her husband's frosty aristocratic reserve to find true love? Or did he really marry her for her dowry? An emotional and deeply satisfying read!
Rating: 1
Summary: Really wooden
Comment: The dialogue creaks and churns, the 'spark' between the couple flickers and dies, and the two people are really not very likeable. James is wooden, a duke who does what all day? They are supposed to be betrothed for two months, yet the supposed sizzle is contained for that long? And they hardly know each other, we never get to see his family?
The whole blackmail thing is predictable and trite.
James' cruelty is inexusable, as is his lack of explanaion to his wife.
The whole latter half of the book is a tragedy of errors and i ca't honestly say I know enough about these characters at the end to be interested in them enough to figure out why they fell in love. Or care.
Her second book is a lot better, sexy and witty. This one was passable, a tried and tested formula that in this case has the emotional intensity of a log.
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