My Sweet Folly
by:
Laura Kinsale (author)
First time in trade paperback-the beloved classic from the New York Times bestselling author. After years of innocent correspondence with her husband's cousin, Folie Hamilton had him pictured in her mind as a heroic soldier. But when he returns to London after her husband's death, Folie meets a...
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First time in trade paperback-the beloved classic from the New York Times bestselling author. After years of innocent correspondence with her husband's cousin, Folie Hamilton had him pictured in her mind as a heroic soldier. But when he returns to London after her husband's death, Folie meets a man on the edge of madness-who both frightens and fascinates her.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425209790 (0425209792)
Publish date: April 4th 2006
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Pages no: 400
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...
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