I usually dislike angsty love with separations for no good reason but this one made more sense than the usual book with that theme and the story was told really well and sweetly. I kept thinking that the first woman was the bad guy and kept waiting for the knife or gun but nope, nothing happened.
Lily Doyle was an army brat who followed her father from one battlefield to the next all her life. When her father died he made his commanding officer, Neville Wyatt, promise to keep her safe. With the French army about to overtake them, Neville hastily married Lily so that, as an officer's wife, ...
Even though this story was filled with every contrived and cliched historical romance plot ever written, from amnesia (not a big part but mentioned in chapter 2), secret wedding, first spouse not really dead and shows up at second wedding, rags to riches, servants secretly raising child of peerage t...
I liked this but didn't love it. It seemed like most of it took place inside the characters' heads. It's understandable in some ways, however, I felt it made the characters stay at a distance. I wanted to care about Lily and at it's heart this is the story of her growth, Neville seems to exist on...
Having read A Summer To Remember, the Slightly series and the Simply series (all of which follow this book), I obviously knew how this one was going to end. However, the plot was more complicated and more interesting that I had anticipated, and I really enjoyed it (in a way, knowing the ending impr...
Noite de Amor é um dos poucos livros que li, em que a estória não gira em torno do casal principal, mas sim é focado na protagonista, na mocinha, Lily. Mary Balogh divide seu livro em várias partes, que vão desenvolvendo a estória de vida de Lily, filha de um mero soldado, que se casa com um Lord in...
Mostly enjoyable, but there are aspects that are really annoying: the easily predictable "lost heiress" subplot, which I personally detest as a plot device, the ridiculous wimpy Duke of Portfrey, who refuses to do anything with his own life until his lost daughter is found, but does nothing to actua...
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