This was my first book by Lynsay Sands and it was really good. My sister loves her books and had urged me to read one of them for ages, but I only caved in yesterday. Now I'm wondering why I didn't pay attention to her sooner.

Lady Clarissa Crambray is extremely nearsighted and "blind as a bat" without her spectacles, but her stepmother Lydia has forbidden her to wear them - in fact, she has broken them and thrown them away to prevent Clarissa from disobeying her. Lydia is trying to get Clarissa More...

It was cute and sweet a little fast paced and hurried at the end.
Lady Clarissa Crambray "Tiny --delicate-looking, in fact -- and lovely as a newly blooming rose, she had dark chestnut hair, a heart-shaped face, large wide eyes, full lips..."(Quote from book)
Adrian Mowbray: Adrian has been scared by war and ten years passed before he could ones more step in to London society. He was very sweet with her (for example: She could not dance without hurting herself of someone, he danced with her no ac More...

OhmiGAWSH, I have never laughed so hard through a sex scene in my entire LIFE. Absolutely hilarious. In fact, the whole book - although very predictable and sappy - was wholeheartedly amusing. And the actual title on the front is 'Love is Blind... or it Should Be'.

Clarissa's overbearing stepmother wants her stepdaughter married off and OUT of her life. But with spectacles on her nose, no gentleman of the ton is going to hook up with her, so the stepmother smashes Clarissa's glasses. And of cours More...

Inhalt:
Clarissas Stiefmutter verbietet Clarissa in Gesellschaft eine Brille zu tragen. Aus diesem Grund passieren ihr einige Missgeschicke, die selbst Clarissas spärliche Verehrer aufgrund ihrer enormen Ungeschicklichkeit in die Flucht schlagen. Nur Adrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, nicht - der vom ersten Moment von ihr hingerissen ist.

Meine Meinung zum Buch:
Ich liebe Lynsay Sands Historicals. Sie sind vielleicht immer nicht so historisch, 100 prozentig historisch korrekt aber versprechen viel H More...

LOVE IS BLIND sounded so promising based on the ratings. Unfortunately, the hero and heroine were one-dimensional. Clarissa and Adrian's story could have been told in under 50 pages. Our heroine was 24 years old but she still permitted her stepmother to manage her life.

Clarissa needed to wear glasses to see. Her father was around but Clarissa was too weak to express herself to him. They put her into the marriage mart but they allowed her to appear clumsy because of her stepmother's vanity. To t More...

I’ve been able to keep up with Lynsay Sands’ current historicals, but I’ve yet to read her earlier work. It seemed fate was wanting me to do so, therefore, when my historical romance chat group chose Ms. Sands for their author of the month and I just happened across a number of her books when last visiting my storage unit. So I took that as a sign and picked up Love is Blind.

As usual when reading a Sands book, I was drawn into this story immediately. I’m always amazed at how the really great aut More...

4.5 stars.

I adored both the hero and heroine here. They were sweet, adorable together and complemented each other perfectly. Just when it seemed the wicked stepmother got too over the top, she showed some vulnerability, so thay went well for me, too.

I guessed the whodunnit in this very light mystery, but the fact that I had to open the book back up to refresh my memory on it tells me that it in no way overshadowed the romance. And the fact that I remember almost every detail about Clarussa and More...

เป็นเล่มที่มีเนื้อหาที่เรียบง่าย เบาสมอง เบาอารมณ์อีกเรื่องหนึ่ง

นางเอก - เป็นคนที่มีปัญหาทางด้านสายตา .. นั่นคือสายตาสั้นมาก ๆ นั่นเอง ในขณะที่แม่เลี้ยงพยายามสรรหาสามีที่เหมาะสมให้ แม่เลี้ยงไม่อนุญาตให้เธอใส่แว่น เธอเลยมีปัญหาในการเดิน การกิน การแยกแยะว่าอันไหนคือโต๊ะ และอันไหนคือหน้าตัก(ขาผู้ชาย) ..

พระเอก - บาดเจ็บจากการออกรบ กลับมามีแผลเป็นอันใหญ่เบิ้มที่หน้า ที่ออกจะน่าเกลียดน่ากลัว จนกระทั่ง สาว ๆ เห็นถึงกับเป็นลม เลยเก็บเนื้อเก็บตัว ไม่ออกสังคมใด ๆ อีกเป็นเวลา 10 ปี

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A Very Strong 4.5 Stars

Lynsay Sands is well known for her Argeneau Vampire Series, but for some reason, this HR book turned out to be my first book from her. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but one thing is for certain, I came out extremely happy having read this book.

Poor Lady Clarissa. She has got one heck of a wicked step-mother, a very bad case of nearsightedness, a terrible reputation of being clumsy, an “unfortunate past” and apparently someone is out to kill her. With all this in her way, More...

Love Is Blind is not one of Lynsay Sands's best. Some of her "historical romances," which all seem to be set in England in the medieval days or in time of Regency London, seem to me to be written early in her career when she has yet to find her voice or humor. It's this humor that draws most readers back to her.

Lady Clarissa has maimed, set on fire, burned with scalding water and stomped upon the feet of most of the ton. But it's not her fault, her step-mother Lydia won't let her have her glass More...

Vanity, such an ugly characteristic most of us have. This book was dripping with it. Whilst i understand that physical deformity is hard to live with, i am sure ten years would be enough to come to terms and accept yourself as you are (i am referring to the book as a platform for this statement), (view spoiler)[but to our male hero in this book it does not. Main female character would rather be "blind" than wear her spectacles, because her stepmother told her she is ugly with them hence her love interest will (hide spoiler)] More...

I personally loved everything about this book. The writing was very good and I loved the whole concept of the story. I personally love stories with a wounded hero such as scarred, paralyzed or believed to be ugly. I love seeing a woman finding the beauty in something ugly just like the woman in this story did. Clarissa and Adrian's relationship was a dream come true. They were both insecure about themselves but both of them somehow found a way to make the other believe how much they loved them a More...

One of the best romantic novels ever. I loved the characters and plot. Several parts had me squealing out loud with delight.

Very fun read.

Sexual content: not evaluated. I read this book before I began counting sex scenes and describing the language. As I recall it was probably moderate. Setting: 1818 London. Copyright: 2006. Genre: regency romance.

To date I've read the following Lynsay Sands books.
3 stars. The Switch. Copyrt 1999. Review Date 8/11/08.
2 stars. Sweet Revenge. Copyrt 2000. Review D More...

This was a really sweet, lighthearted, regency romp that served as a nice break from plottier, heavier, and sometimes darker stories I've been reading. It was fairly well-written, although the heroine was really teetering into mary-sue-land especially towards the end. Normally I'm pretty forgiving about that, especially with regency romances, but when literally all conflicts met a harmonious resolution at the hands of Clarissa, it was kind of disappointing. But then, this really wasn't one of th More...

A dollar store book that I picked up because I recognized the author. Then I read the back. Heroine who needs glasses and isn't allowed to wear them! Scarred hero! Two of my favorite tropes! Yay!

This was VERY good, the conflict within the couple was very realistic, the hero was selfish, but recognized it and made up for it, the heroine was understandably insecure, not crazy and annoyingly insecure like many heroines. The overarching "mystery" was obvious and pretty much unnecessary since the res More...

I came to know about Lynsay Sands while I was looking up paranormal romance novels and stumbled on her Argeneau series. Now, I'm a girl who loves her vampires, but it has to be gritty and intense and Lynsay Sands's brand of paranormal comedy totally turned me off. But since she was a pretty well-liked author, I thought I'd try her other books too, but to be honest, I found the comic elements to be too much of an overdose and I didn't at all see the romance. Suffice to say, I wasn't a fan of this More...

Short review: Heroine can't see without her glasses. Stepmother won't let her use her glasses because she won't attract a husband. Heroine gets reputation of being very clumsy. Hero has a scar on his once perfect face that keeps him in hiding. He things heroine is perfect because she can't see his face. Of course they fall in love. There is a little mystery in this story in that some of the "accidents" are proving to not be accidents, someone is trying to kill her. In all, this was a sweet roman More...

Adorable. This is a sweet, fabulous romance, and I can't really think of anything I really disliked about it. I am tempted to rate it even higher, but it doesn't have an emotional, mind-blowing plot, so I think 4 is perfect. There are moments in this book that really melted my heart. Too adorable. I LOVED both the hero and heroine. I was really touched by their relationships with their families as well. There were really funny parts too- (view spoiler)[my favorite is when Reg Greville pretends to be gay so he (hide spoiler)] More...

Love may be blind but true love always seem to find each other even in the dark. Lynsay Sands novel, Love is Blind, is a sweet romance with a hot passion. This book might have been called, Love At First Sight, if not for the insecurities that both the hero and heroine suffer from which prevent them from admitting their love for each other.
There are several interesting themes in this book, even if I was able to figure out the whodunit of the story long before it was revealed. The novel explores More...

What a wonderful read. Clarissa is as blind as a bat and can't see two feet in front of her without her glasses. Unfortunately, her step-mother insist that she will never gain the love of a good man in spectacles. So Clarissa has been attending balls without them.

Only problem she has become the joke of the ton, with her little mishaps of setting her tea on laps instead of tables, stepping on toes and setting wigs on fire. In walks Adrian and he is immediately entranced, despite the warnings. Be More...

I am so glad that I discovered Lynsay Sands' historical romances. Anything with some steam, humor, and in a historical setting is fine by me!

This story is a fairly basic romance, with no major hurdles. But when you throw in Clarissa's need for the glasses her step-mother refuses to let her wear and her ensuing calamities, major humor results.

Adrian and Clarissa fall in love, or at least fall in the deep potential for love, almost from the moment they meet. Clarissa's step-mother forbids Clarissa More...

This was a really fun read and a sweet romance, with some interesting supporting characters, too. It was pretty obvious who was behind the mystery and why, but that didn't really matter. The only thing that did bother me was that some of the language seemed too modern and out of context. That, and the fact that it seemed unlikely to me that Clarissa would be able to eventually easily get glasses that corrected her near-blindness to what was implied to be perfectly good sight! Still, it would hav More...

I thought this was a cute book, and I enjoyed reading it. It's nice to read a romance where you actually like both the hero and the heroine. I could sympathize with their self-consciousness about their perceived flaws. Poor Clarissa thought she'd be rejected by her husband because she looked ugly in her spectacles. Poor Adrian thought his wife would be disgusted when she saw his scar. It takes some skill to handle this kind of storyline where the couple is keeping secrets from each other, and I More...

December 20, 2009

Cute book!

July 15, 2008

It's been a couple of weeks since I read this book...

This is what amazon says about it:

"Poor Clarissa Crambray. An "unfortunate incident" plunged her into scandal when she was only 12, and now that she is grown, her ill-natured stepmother parades her around town in search of a husband, forbidding her to wear her glasses and thus ensuring an unending succession of embarrassing moments when she steps on toes, uses gentlemen's laps for a tea table, and sets w More...

This is the first book I have read by Lynsay Sands; it will not be the last. This was a wonderful and very unique historical romance.

I find in most romance novels that one or both of the characters are either horribly flawed or practically perfect. In this book Clarissa and Adrian aren't either. They are two very real, normal people, with strengths and weaknesses. They both have flaws, but they also have wonderful qualities.

Clarissa isn't stunning, but she's a pretty girl who happens to be as More...

At First Sight: Lord Aidan Monfort, Earl of Mowbray hasn't been back in London in over ten years, not since he put on an appearance shortly after he was injured in the war and the scar on his face managed to scare off everyone.


But now he's back, maybe looking for a wife; though sure everyone still sees him as a monster. So, when his cousin points him toward Lady Clarissa Cambray during the first ball he attends, Aidan can't believe his luck: Clarissa is funny and sweet and is practically blind More...

** 4.5 stars **

I LOVED everything about this book! It was funny, sweet, swoony and surprisingly sexy. I genuinely liked the characters in the story, which was refreshing. It was so wonderful to see them get past their insecurities and find love and their HEA.

I took off 1/2 star because a few places it seemed to drag for about 20 pages or so the second half and the book, and darn it but there were wasn't an epilogue! I wanted a future epilogue of Adrian and Clarissa happy with lots of babies!

Th More...

Lynsay Sands’ books have been some of the rare bright spots on my reading list lately. I’ve gotten a little tired of her vampire/Atlantean series so I decided to go back a read some of her older historical romances. I thought this one was particularly interesting. Not brilliant by any means, but definitely cute. The hero seemed very young for a war veteran (mainly due to his overwhelming insecurities), but the plot was an interesting mixture of the ugly duckling and beauty and the beast combined More...

Clarissa is a myopic lady. Her stepmother doesn’t allow her to wear spectacles, so her season in London is a catastrophe after catastrophe. But nothing beats Clarissa, nor the meanness of her stepmother, nor the pity or disregard from others. She is not oblivious from others, she just does not let them hurt her. She is honest, humble, curious so it is not a surprise when Adrian Montfort, for whom her blindness is a bless (he is scarred), falls for her.

Clarissa is a really lovable character. It m More...

What a great book!! I have read hundreds, if not thousands of books over the years and at times find books boring because many are all so familiar. But I really enjoyed Love Is Blind. Lynsay Sands is an amazing author, and I find many of her books to be incredibly funny and sweet. At times this book had me laughing out loud and I especially liked the proposal and wedding night scenes. Definitely give this book a try!