My Sweet Folly
by:
Laura Kinsale (author)
My dear girl! I could never fall in love by letter. Though I have no doubt you are a notorious breaker of hearts, not to mention a princess in disguise, and if I were a few miles closer to Toot-above-the-Batch I would be in great danger. From the safe distance of another continent, I will admit...
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My dear girl! I could never fall in love by letter. Though I have no doubt you are a notorious breaker of hearts, not to mention a princess in disguise, and if I were a few miles closer to Toot-above-the-Batch I would be in great danger. From the safe distance of another continent, I will admit to a modest desire to see how your pearl becomes you, even to know the color of your hair and eyes, but this is mere curiosity, I assure you. -Your knight, RobertThrough their innocent correspondence, a lonely young wife grows to love an imaginary man thousands of miles away. But when Folie finally meets him in truth, reality is turned upside down. She cannot find her own cherished Robert in the frightening stranger who claims her love. My Sweet Folly was a finalist from the Romance Writers of America for both Favorite Book of the Year and Best Long Historical Novel.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781497642119 (1497642116)
ASIN: 1497642116
Publish date: 2014-07-15
Publisher: Open Road Media Romance
Pages no: 358
Edition language: English
An entertaining minor book. In particular it has a suspense plot that's actually suspenseful, and with Folie, a charming heroine who has a gift for seeing the humor in everything (even in the middle of her wedding with a man she's sure hates her, a stray thought makes her smile) and a way with a qui...
Refreshingly different from your typical formulaic historical romance. Kinsale has a unique way of making a labyrinth of her plot lines just to get to the happily ever after. Definitely not flat or boring.
The book starts with an amazingly beautiful prologue, where the hero and heroine fall in love by letter before they meet in person. Unfortunately the rest of the book is bizarre and disorganized, filled with WTF moments, satisfying neither as a romance nor as a suspense novel. The 2 main characters,...
Folie's husband receives a letter from a 3rd cousin about some matter that his father had wanted to write to her husband about. Since her husband didn't think it was important to respond, she did and this started a pen pal relationship that developed into more with Robert. After her husband dies, ...
This book is a mess. The prologue is the most charming thing you will ever read, and there's one sex scene (in which no physical contact is quite made) which is the hottest thing EVER), but the plot is on even more crack than usual (poisoning drugging child abuse what?) and there are several subplo...