Edenbrooke
Format: kindle
ASIN: B007FG9KU8
Publish date: April 27th 2012
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Historical Romance,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Regency,
Regency Romance,
Clean Romance
Series: A Proper Romance
Book: Edenbrooke Author: Julianne Donaldson Genre: Fiction/Historical Romance Summary: Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted suitor. So when an invitation arrives from her twin sister, Cecily, to join her at a sprawling count...
A charming romantic story, set in Regency England, this novel has a banner ‘Proper Romance’. I guess it means romance without sex, which is what it was, and the lack of sex scenes actually enhanced the tale for me. The heroine Marianne is young, naive, and very proper. The hero Philip is charismatic...
Edenbrooke was just what I needed; a quick, light, clean romantic read. It was quite predictable and one of the characters was completely clueless, but it was so much fun.
Delightful. In some ways this book was a bit of the regency romp cliche. There were highwaymen, an abduction, mistaken identity, wealthy dowagers, etc. What set this apart for me was the main character, Marianne. It's not often I really love the heroines of novels. I frequently love the heroes, but ...
Ok, if you were unfortunate enough to be online and see my updating every 5 seconds late last night as I read this book, I apologize. And obviously, based on my first impressions, I hated this book. But I *did* stay up until 1 am to finish it, and I got lazy about updates ... so it improved. But not...