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Title: One Night for Love by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0-440-22600-7 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 13 July, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (25 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A nebulous, malleable heroine and a dunderheaded hero.
Comment: I expected to enjoy this novel. I love romances, the plot sounded intriguing, and a friend recommended it. (Granted, another friend said it was one of the worst novels she's read, but at least ONE liked it a lot). This is a weak book.The heroine is supposed to be this magnificent, strong remind the reader. Everyone seems to think her charming, elegant, spirited, priceless, dear, brave, etc. Of course, you don't see her being much of anything. She sort of floats around in a cloud of self-pity, a will-o-the-wisp of self-involvement, bemoaning over and over how she would be better off dead, when she wasn't apologizing endlessly for being a nuisance to everyone for being ALIVE. Geesh. Give it a rest.
I wanted to like Lily. She had suffered a lot. She was sweet to the poor tenants--although the rich folks weren't her type. Reverse snobbism. But Lily had no driving core. We expect her to be a woman of amazing strength because she walked miles and miles to get to England to be with her "husband", Neville. But once she's there, she's dominated by her insecurities, her childishness, her lack of internal motivation. Instead of complaining how much she wishes she could read and play the piano forte, why not ASK to be taught. Why not DEMAND it as her right as a Countess. Oh, woe is Lily.
And Neville. Gee..does he ask for proof his wife is dead? No doctor pronounced it, no burial was confirmed, no bones found. Just that he saw her shot and saw lots of blood. For a seasoned soldier, he's an idiot. Blood and a wound don't EQUAL death. One can recover from a bloody wound. LAter on in the book, he'll go to great lengths--or is willing to--to obtain a particular object. Too bad he didn't go to great lengths to find out his wife wasn't rotting in her grave.
The first couple of opening scenes are a total waste. First scene--no reason for it. The one with Neville and his fiance, we learn nothing about the fiance. Wasted chance at characterization. She isn't fleshed out until later. She SHOULD have been fleshed out early, so that when these two women see each other face-tof-face in the church, the import of what's going on is greater for the reader.
There are some good bits--enough to keep one reading without total despair. Real feelings being expressed by the rejected, a family reunion that made me teary, a bad guy to add some interest to the mix, and one part where Lily does show some gumption, but it's not convincing. Sadly. There is a Deus-ex-machina kind of resolution--the secret discovery is really so very helpful to tie up loose ends, eh?
Yes, the weakest part of this book is what should have been the father, a husband, an aunt-in-law....Lily the zombie. Maybe she DID die. And got reanimated. Would explain a lot
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Regency romance
Comment: During the fight against Napoleon, Neville Wyatt, Earl of Kilbourne, met and fell in love with Lily Doyle, daughter of a dead soldier. However, the misfortunes of war hit home as Neville returns to England as a widower. A sad but wiser Neville returns to the Ton where he rejoins the festive activities. Ultimately, Neville becomes engaged to his childhood sweetheart only to have Lily reappear.
Lily finds herself overwhelmed by the majestic home of her spouse. Even more difficult is for the commoner to adapt to his aristocratic family. While riding each morning, she realizes that she must leave her beloved because she is not good enough for him. He tries to persuade her otherwise, but she still leaves him and goes to London. However, someone wants Lily dead for no apparent reason and only Neville can keep his beloved safe, but she has left him to become a paid companion.
Award winning Mary Balogh is deservedly renowned for her best selling Regency romances that make the early nineteenth century seems as if the readers lived during the era. Her newest tale, ONE NIGHT FOR LOVE, lives up to the author's reputation and its own title as sub-genre fans will love this one night of reading. The characters are intriguing and the historical romantic suspense story line is entertaining. Ms. Balogh has another best seller to add to her excellent list.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: STOP the wedding, he's already married...to ME!
Comment: Wouldn't that be a shocker...Major Neville Wyatt marries Lily Doyle, the daughter of a fatally wounded sergeant, on the battlefield to assure her protection. As his wife, she will be given respect if captured (at least that's what he's been told). Her life has been that of following the army with her father and Neville has had a secret desire for her for a long time now. The following morning during a surprise raid, Lily is shot, thought to be dead, while Neville is wounded and moved out of enemy lines. Neville returns home and 18 months later he is going through with the wedding/planned marriage to a woman, Lauren (A Summer To Remember) whom he grew up with- was like a sister to him and chosen by his family. He has not mentioned the marriage to Lily for that would only bring pain to his family and is "dead and buried." He thinks. As the bride prepares to join her groom down the aisle, Lily runs in, making the announcement that he is already married to her! Neville learns that for the past 1 1/2 years Lily has been a prisoner/forced-mistress to a spanish military officer, who just recently was forced to release her. The wedding to stopped, explanations made- but do they go from here? Lily doesn't have the background to be the wife of the Earl of Kilbourne. It is a wonderful regency romance to be followed with A SUMMER TO REMEMBER.
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Title: More than a Mistress by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0440226015 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Irresistible by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0515123676 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Summer to Remember by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0440236630 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: No Man's Mistress by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0440236576 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Slightly Scandalous by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0440241111 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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