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Title: Tempting Harriet (Signet Regency Romance, 7952) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0-451-17952-8 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent.
Comment: Just when a reader thinks she has read every conceivable storyline, she gloriously uncovers a surprise. Mary Balogh writes a splendid story, and this fine author fills this Signet Regency Romance book with hot, sweltering sexual lust. What was I reading ten years ago, when these little treasures were the rage? Some of today's top authors started with these regency stories.
"Tempting Harriet" is the story of a beautiful, charming, pristine woman and her duke. A love story, shaped six years earlier, of two ill-fated people who desperately tried to deny their love for one another.
Born a parson's daughter, Lady Harriet Wingham, now a wealthy widow, sadly becomes the paramour for the Duke of Tenby, her once great admirer. The duke could not and will not marry Harriet as she is beneath his title. Instead the lovers engage in a soiled liaison. From cover to cover, Mary Balogh toys with her reader's sentiments. This is bitter sweet romance at its finest.
To enhance the story's spice, Balogh draws some delightful secondary characters. The duke's great-aunt literally steals every scene she graces. As a reader, I loved this meddling, old coot.
With "Courting Julia" and "Dancing with Clara", this wonderful story is part three in the series. Yet, this book is perfectly enjoyable on its own. Well done, Mary Balogh.
Grace Atkinson, Ontario - Canada.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Character Portrayal! Not to be missed!
Comment: What a wonderful book. Not only do you hope and cheer for Harriet and her love, Tenby, but you find out what has happened to characters from other Mary Balogh books. Finding out how Freddie and Clara are faring (from Dancing With Clara) was such a bonus.
Harriet, in the six years since we last heard of her, married a gentle older man and bore him a beautiful daughter. She is now widowed and wealthy. Although she loved her husband she realizes she never lost the tendre she felt for the Duke of Tenby. Harriet never asked what happened to Tenby after refusing him six years before when he offered her "carte blanche." Now she is London having a "season" and Tenby is bowing to duty and looking for a bride. They meet - both realizing that Harriet would never be an appropriate choice for a duchess - but the attraction to each other is overwhelming.
Tenby, too, has denied his love for her and up until they met again did not know she had married and does not know of her daughter. Without telling the whole story, their love becomes a tangled web of quick liaisons and hurt feelings. Tenby wants to marry her after all but is it too late? He becomes betrothed, and Harriet finds him without honor and begins to hate him. How can a happy ending be achieved?
All the characters in this book are well portrayed. You will love Tenby's great aunt and Harriet's dear friend, Lady Sophia. She is a matchmaker in disguise and delightful. And you will agonize with both hero and heroine as they struggle with their love for each other and moral issues. This book stands alone and is enjoyable even if you have not read the prequel. This is one book that is not to be missed.
Rating: 4
Summary: Unusual and Unique
Comment: I've read hundreds of Regency romances before, but this was my first Mary Balogh. And It has stuck in my head for months. Not only did it take a path I had never seen used before but the writing was clever and well done.
I can't remember the last time a romance touched me to tears, but this one did. The charactarization is superb. Indeed, the halmark of Balogh's books are her charactarizations.
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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: Dancing With Clara (Signet Regency Romance) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451178734 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: The Plumed Bonnet (Signet Regency Romance) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451190513 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Temporary Wife (Signet Regency Romance, 9143) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451191439 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Courting Julia (Signet Regency Romance) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451177398 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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