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Title: Undone by Virginia Henley ISBN: 0-451-21064-6 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a fun Georgian Era romance
Comment: In 1751 in a remote part of Ireland, Duke John Gunning and Elizabeth Gunning, meeting for the first time, share a Midsummer Night's Dream encounter. Both are attracted to one another, but neither expects an aristocrat and a commoner to run into each other ever again as their circles are quite different.
Elizabeth's pushy mom plans to have both her daughters perform on the stage. She turns to her friend actress Peg Wolffington for help. Peg takes to the two young females and arranges for the three women to see her perform at Dublin Castle. She goes so far as to sham a relationship insisting that the two siblings are daughters of Viscount Mayo, a lord in the most remote isolated part of the country. However, also at the castle is John, whose silence can only be bought with kisses from the real Elizabeth, not the performer.
This is a fun Georgian Era romance that puts a twist on the taboo of acting by making it an acceptable occupation. The story line grips the readers as John and Elizabeth fall in love, but must cope with the overarching reach of her mom, who would be the mother-in-law from hell. Fans of the period will enjoy Virginia Henley's latest tale because as usual the author provides a deep historical piece inside a strong character driven romance.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 2
Summary: Playing with the readers mind....
Comment: Let me start with the good before I go to the bad...
This book is a lusty novel full of romance (how cliche!)... The two main characters are helplessly in love and are tragically kept apart by a sequence of events. Sounds like the perfect novel, no?
Well, I don't know about you, but passion doesn't hold a novel together. This is not the book to curl up and read if you want a light happy reading. Expect to be brought to the brink of tears over and over again.
I personally read this and felt as if the author was playing with my emotions a tad to much. The drama was becoming well insufferable. There came a point that I honestly was ready to put the book down and not pick it up again. Now don't get me wrong, drama can be a good thing, and the use of pathos (the techinque of playing with the readers emotions) can create a very very good book, but only if it is done subtly. By the end of this book I was honestly happy I had finished it, almost like someone would feel after they weathered a hurricane.
If you like the tragic romance, this book is for you, but if you are like me, and read romances to get that warm glowy feeling after you finish, I don't suggest it. It is, in all aspects, a matter of taste...
Rating: 1
Summary: Oh, Yuk
Comment: My God, where are these authors going. This is porn. I would have actually loved this book. Beth, what a story it could have been. Historical and all. I just couldn't get past the non-romance, non-feeling, do depth of relationship, yuk, that is love? Are these new "romance" historical/regencey, etc. written for women? No way, not for me. I think there were pages and pages I skipped through of pure porn. Just took away from the story, terribly. Just such a shame. Where is the touch, the look, the word's, the tenderness, all that would make a women feel? So sad. If you're into the porn genre, then this book is for you.
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Title: Again The Magic by Lisa Kleypas ISBN: 0380811081 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Prince of Pleasure by Nicole Jordan ISBN: 0804119805 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Dragon Lord's Daughters by Bertrice Small, Beatrice Small ISBN: 1575668572 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Gentleman's Honor by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0060002077 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Until You by Bertrice Small ISBN: 0451209745 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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