Other reviewers have called this one their favourite of Elizabeth Mansfield's books, and All About Romance gave it a DIK (Desert Island Keeper) rating. I don't agree at all. The heroine, Pippa, is basically a pushover for her host family, the Sturtevants, who are, with the exception of Simon, the se...
Good one from Elizabeth Mansfield, almost didn't put it down to do the things I was supposed to do today. Also love the cool 1970's-style cover on the 1979 edition (which I am lucky enough to have).
Some wonderful things in this book, but quite a few What the Heck? moments as well. The good things first: the fantastic characterization of the heroine as an adolescent - all the brashness, hormones, angst, impetuousity, rebelliousness, overconfidence yet deep-seated insecurity are so well portr...
A winner from Elizabeth Mansfield! Well-written, well-plotted, great characters, and not just the main ones. The book grabbed me from the first page and didn't let go until the last. Plenty of excellent scenes too - for example, the initial accidental encounter between Jan and Ollenshaw, and the co...
A really sweet and well-written traditional Regency romance. A pleasant relief after reading a few by Elizabeth Mansfield recently that were quite disappointing.
Another variation on the theme of "penniless lord marries cit's daughter who secretly loves him to desperation". Georgette Heyer wrote the original, one of her best, in "A Civil Contract", Rose Lerner did a fine job with this theme in her debut novel "In For a Penny" and Sherry Thomas' "Ravishing th...
The three stories in the book average out to 3 stars. 2 stars for "A Very Dutiful Daughter", 3 stars for "A Counterfeit Husband" and 4 stars for "The Bartered Bride".
The story has some nice aspects to it, but the whole premise is very shaky and unconvincing (the heroine asks her footman to pretend he is her husband) and the final rapprochement with the dreadful sister-in-law was also too much of an about-face to be believable.
I bought this book by mistake. I already had bought it once and placed in the to gave-away/to give away pile because I could not get in to it. This time I thought that something must have interested me to buy it again albeit unknowingly. I also now have a rule of trying at least 3 times to get into ...
The characters are either cartoons or unappealing. The hero is appealing, but cartoonishly portrayed as a hillbilly from the American backwoods (which he could not be given his background as the son of an English aristocrat).
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