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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780373293728
ISBN: 0373293720
Label: Harlequin
Manufacturer: Harlequin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: October 01, 2005
Publisher: Harlequin
Studio: Harlequin
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Short-listed for 2006 Romance Writers of Australia's Romantic Book of the Year Award
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Rating:  -
This book was so interesting that I forfeited all except one hour of sleep on a work night to complete the read. Now that's saying a lot. The story was so enthralling that I simply could not put it down. I look forward to a lot more from this author.
Rating:  -
I downloaded this book because it was free and I like some good brain candy every once in a while. I really enjoyed it. Was it a bit frustrating at points? Yes, but so is life for that matter. I liked the story and always like a good happy ending. Am I glad I downloaded it? Most definitely!
Rating:  -
I read about a book a day, on average. This was, hands down, the worst of the year. Probably last year & the year before that too. I didn't like the characters or the plot. Even free, it costs too much. I want my time back. I know its gotta be tough to write a book, and I doubt I could do it, so I try hard to give authors a break, even if I don't really like the book. Unfortunately, I just really hated this one, which is rare for me.
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The death of her father left, Verity Scott, in a state of distraught...but in these trying times she befriended a gentlemanly soldier named Max...and her father just happened to be his commanding officer. Five years later, Verity finds herself working as a handmaiden and Max mysteriously reenters her life. She discovers that he is the Lord of Bakehurst...but realizes that Max does not remember her...and sees her as a lowly maid. Yet, it is the poor way she is being treated that drives Max into her arms. When Max finally does realize who she is, he insists that they get married. The story goes back and forth like this as Max looks to embrace her then decides to push her away. Will they get married or will their passion for each other drive them apart? This was a very well-written historical romance....I would also highly recommend JoAnna Wylde's novel Price of Freedom: Price of Freedom another incredibly well-written book.
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I don't know who I hate worse, myself for having read this book, or the characters contained within it.
The hero (and I really wish I didn't have to use that word to describe him) is a self-absorbed, arrogant, insensitive jackass, and those are his redeeming qualities. If this story were set in modern times I might suspect he would be diagnosed as a sociopath. How the heroine (who quite frankly seems to be two sandwiches short a picnic herself) puts up with him and loves him is hard to fathom. Her few sparks of courage should not be misinterpreted as a sign that she will grow a backbone.
There were far too many misunderstandings to be believable and his realization of love would have come "too little, too late" to make any difference to any woman with an ounce of self worth. Although it does work here because the heroine does not have an iota of self worth within her delicate psyche. They are the perfect match made in H E L L.
I have to admit the author does know how to set a scene and write vivid descriptions, she falls short in creating sympathetic characters. Unfortunately I would not read another of her novels to find out otherwise.
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