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Fantastic read. Tons of angst, wonderful feel for the Regency period and the Thoroughbred horse-breeding culture that was part of it. (I've read other historical romances with a horse-breeding theme, but most of them bored me, unfortunately.) Lange did a great job with the Irish aspect of the story,...
Not bad, but not nearly as good as I was expecting given the book's currently high rating on Goodreads. The main problem is the characters - they are not well-developed or interesting as people. Jessica is flawless, perfect, both in character and in appearance, so she is hardly human, and the hero J...
Almost impossible to like or admire the hero of this book, unfortunately. He is a sullen, arrogant jerk and spends pretty much the entire book in the sulks because he decided to marry the girl he inadvertently raped, thinking she was a whore when he found her in his room. The heroine manages to stan...
Janet's review on GR corresponds exactly to my feelings about this book. I can't believe in an HEA for this couple because of the hero's bad temper, arrogance and prejudgement of the heroine's character - there needs to be a lot more groveling and change on his part at the end of the book as recompe...
I read three of the stories in the book - Mary Balogh's, which is delightful (4 stars), Emma Lange's and Sheila Walsh's (2 stars each). Emma Lange's and Sheila Walsh's stories don't come close to Mary Balogh's story in terms of characterization, plot, and even the feeling of Christmas. Mary Balogh m...
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