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Title: A Christmas Promise by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0-451-17360-0 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: December, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful Christmas tearjerker
Comment: Mary Balogh writes some truly wonderful books, and this is definitely one of them. Randolph, Earl of Falloden, is struggling under the vast mound of debt left to him by his spendthrift cousin, the previous earl. He is astonished when a cit, a *coal merchant* of all people, comes to visit him to inform him that he's bought all Randolph's debts. And he will write them all off, and give Randolph half of his fortune, if the Earl will marry his daughter. (...)
This is a lovely, poignant love story, in which a couple who seem completely unsuited to each other in the beginning gradually come to understand, and to love, one another; and it's set in the magical season of Christmas, a time which Mary Balogh does so well. If you can find a copy of this somewhere, snap it up!
Rating: 4
Summary: Tough start but unusual turn...
Comment: This story by Mary Balogh is the only one in which I have cried at the end, and I don't usually cry over books. The book starts out unpromisingly with an aristocrat being blackmailed into marriage by a dying merchant. He finds the merchant's daughter to be cold, title-obsessed, and unfeeling - and also surprisingly passionate. She sees him as a gambler and a wastrel, and remembers only that he has shown her no love nor sympathy. The marriage therefore starts off unpromisingly, especially when the father-in-law dies shortly afterward and the heroine refuses to wear mourning for longer than a month.
However, both have severe misconceptions about each other. The hero, Randolph, is not a wastrel. The heroine, Eleanor, is not cold nor unfeeling. How they come to these realizations without the usual Big Misunderstanding dominating the story-line is what I will leave you to discover. Suffice it to say that there is a wonderful sled race, some rather amusing relatives of the bride, and no less than three minor romances that nevertheless do not take our attention away from Randolph and Eleanor as they struggle to a better understanding of each other.
And as to why I cried? Well, it has something to do with why Eleanor did not cry at her father's death and what finally happens in the conservatory.
There are no villains, just some remarkable misconceptions based on initial behavior at a very trying time. As such, this book is both refreshing and yet oddly touching. If I could find a copy of this book, it would be definitely a keeper.
Rating: 3
Summary: Talk about a rocky start to a marriage. . .
Comment: This marriage has a horrid beginning. The first love scene is a bit rough. The characters do indeed hate each other. In fact with as much as they hate each other in the beginning, they have no right to be as in love with each other as they are by the end. Actually, I'm amazed that Balogh pulled it off. I liked both characters by the end despite how terrible they were at the beginning, and that has to take talent. Not Balogh's best, but still very readable.
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Title: Christmas Beau by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451171020 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: A Certain Magic (Signet Regency Romance) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451169166 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Dark Angel (Signet Regency Romance, No 7953) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451179536 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Christmas Belle (Signet Regency Romance) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451179544 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: A Christmas Bride (Signet Regency Romance) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451191447 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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