Okay Richard Armitage is so Sebastian Reyne in this book. I am like Hope. Sebastian is giving me the shivers. He is dark and brooding, and totally yummalicious. Why are so many of my favorite heroes named Sebastian? What a coinkidink!

This was a touching book. There are multiple scenes that made me tear up, and I don't typically do that while I'm reading. I just loved Sebastian. He was this big, brawny guy who was as soft as a marshmallow inside. His heart is so full of love, but he felt that he More...

I'm in a re-reading frame of mind. This is Anne Gracie's BEST, in my view. I adore Sebastian. He is....sigh worthy. Silent, protective, passionate, tender, stubborn, noble, and yearning for love, though he doesn't know it.

No elegant Englishman, Sebastian Reyne is built like a boxer: "His chest was solid, and hot, and exquisitely different from hers. She scratched his skin lightly with her nails, and he groaned deep in his throat, shuddering under her hand."

"Heat radiated from him, and she coul More...

3.5 stars. This moved a bit slow and was too heavy on the angst for my taste. The H, h and various characters all had childhoods that ranged from sad to painful to heartbreaking. The H, Sebastian had an especially brutal and tragic youth and spent much of the book grappling with guilt, loss and the belief that love and happiness were out of his reach. Hope is beautiful and filled with joy despite suffering severe abuse as a child herself. She is his perfect match (as he is hers), but he fights t More...

This could have easily been a five star read if it had been edited down some and remained more focused on Sebastian and Hope. I found both secondary romances a bit uninteresting and I could have done with fewer pages devoted to the young sisters.

The heroine Hope was just shy of being too perfect but I adored her honesty and joy for life. Sebastian got a little irritating with his inability to switch gears once it became abundantly clear that Plan A wasn't working. He seemed to spend a lot of ti More...

Sebastian Reyne leaves his country home and his two very troubled little sisters to find a wife that can help him raise his sisters. He enlists the help of his friend Giles to introduce him to Lady Elinore, an older spinster who fits his list of qualifications, never mind that she is very stern, cold and only wears grey.
At the ball, he sees Hope Merridew and is completely mesmerized by her. He fights his deep attraction to her as he thinks she is one of those spoiled ton society girls who woul More...

I admired how Sebastian Reyne was determined to marry not for himself but for the good of his sisters. It broke my heart during the part wherein Sebastian was desperately trying his hardest to reach out to his sisters but just don't know how. It also annoyed me at first when he was so convinced that Lady Elinore was the perfect wife for him when clearly Hope had much more to offer. Hope was perfect for him! With her strong belief that everyone deserves to be loved, have fun and find joy. Despite More...

What's wrong with this series that I need a week to find some time to review the books?

Anyway, The Perfect Waltz is a sweet, solid romance from beginning to end. Remember when I said in my review of the Perfect Rake that Hope was the least favorite of my sisters? (Well I'm not sure these were my exact words, but this is what I meant) Delete that! I was so wrong! Hope is a truly, profoundly good person and I love her (almost) as much as Prue.

The hero's name is Sebastian! Do I need anything more More...

Loved this book although I still think the first made for a more dramatic story. Hope (the left handed twin) is free of the oppressive home she had once known. In London, under the care of her granduncle, she has flourished into a belle of the ton. Her obvious happiness and joy captures the attention of a Mr. Sebastian Reyne one night in a ballroom. However, Mr Reyne has other plans - he intends to wed Lady Elinore, a charitable but plain spinster who (in his head) would be a good influence on h More...

Beautiful story!

Hope and Sebastian make a great couple, she full of life and exuberance and he silent and brooding.

Sebastian's character couldn't be more different from Gideon's, the main hero of the previous book. When Gideon was full of wicked dry wit, Sebastian is serious and filled with guilt and responsibilities. Hope helps him move past it and see life differently, while at the same time helping the little sisters he's so worried about.

Hope is a lot less frivolous than she looks, not vain More...

So this book was like a sine graph for me. It started out well, maybe not a 5 star material, but a nice touching story about a caring brother. He needs to find a wife, but he actually searches for a mother-figure for his two little sisters. They suffered a lot and are a bit wild now.
Obviously he has all the priorities mixed up.

When he meets Hope Merridew it is obvious that she is the best match for him but he still sticks to the plan to find a prim, prudent wife. This is where things went down More...

okay. I won't review this book.
i just want to tell my comment about this book.

I really like The Merridew Sisters's series though i havent read all of them yet. (i havent read the perfect rake yet). the story in this book was not too complicated and easy to read ( I'm Indonesian, and I cant speak or read or write English fluently). and of course so romantic. I love romance :D
In this book I Love Sebastian.
really. he's my fave character in The Merridew Sisters's series.
well, okay. I do Love the ot More...

I absolutely loved this book. Sebastian had the whole torn and tortured thing going on for him. Hope continues to be a bright light for everyone she meets despite her terrible childhood. They fit so well together. The one thing that bothered me was the pace during the middle of the book. It slowed down quite a lot, and it took its sweet time picking back up again. I just wanted to shake the characters and tell them to move on, but I can hardly blame the characters. It is the author who is at fau More...

This was a cute story and one that I enjoyed reading with it's lighthearted banter between Hope and Sebastian, although it did deal with child labor in the early 1800's it didn't stray to far into being to dark.
Although a good story, it didn't really hold me like the Perfect Rake did with it's humor and charm between the h/h, Perfect Waltz did have a little more of nice sensual level which the Perfect Rake didn't have but that's about it. The humor never really held up along with the sensual l More...

This is my second reading of this book. Originally it was the first of the series I read and I liked it so much I wanted to read about the other sisters. Please see my review of "The Perfect Rake". This one is not as hilarious as "The Perfect Rake" but Sebastian is a serious guy. He is devoted to his two young sisters whom he'd lost track of and has recently found. That he lost them haunts him with self-loathing. He has come to London to marry a woman he hopes will help him with his sisters as t More...

I am very fond of Gracie's books, but this one was not quite as enjoyable as her other works.
While I quite liked the hero and heroine - Gracie has a remarkable talent for writing likable characters with actual personalities - the plot and pacing was somewhat lacking.

Hope and Sebastian meet each other in society and most of their interactions are either ton events or short run-ins. This made for an oddly disjointed tale - there was something almost staccato in the pacing of many small encounters More...

Last year I read The Perfect Rake and had great fun with Prue and Gideon’s witty dialogues. Since then I’ve been looking forward to it’s sequels. The Perfect Waltz is the second book, about Hope Merridew.

I also enjoyed this one very much although I didn’t find it as light as the previous book. The hero, Sebastian, has come to London in search of a wife. He feels a wife would be the solution to his sisters problems. The two young girls grew up separated from him and the older one is a rebel and t More...

A book that moved me. A good story. Will want you to have your own family. All the characters is well done. I love each part of it. I also love the story of Giles and Elinore even though there are not the main charachers. The hero, Sebastian and the heroine, Hope is really a match. I really hope there is different story for Giles and Elinore. Nervertheless, it is still good. A fast paced book that will not get you bored!Love it! I wish there is a book for Cassie and Dorie. I love the Reyne famil More...

The second book in the Merridew Sisters saga, The Perfect Waltz just didn't have the punch and pizazz that The Perfect Rake did. Not for me, anyway. Still, it's an enjoyable read, and any fan of historical romance should like it.

So happy to visit with the Merridew sisters again! This one really caught my attention - which is almost a miracle these days. I loved both Sebastian and Hope. Anne Gracie does a great job of having serious problems in the book, but it not becoming overly sad and depressing. Both H and h have terrible pasts but absolutely love their sisters. Sebastian is much older than his two sisters, who he has recently been reunited with. Watching how patient, loving and protective he was of them just made w More...

This was so fun, reading the story of a man who knows what he wants and needs only to find out that it really is not what he desires at all. Enjoyed reading how much fun a best friend can have trying to show the main character which is the right choice for him. Sensitive subject matters were address very well in the story, thought AG did a wonderful job in handling the situations and how they were discussed. A very good read.

This is the first book I've read from this author and it was an enjoyable read. Not as enjoyable as the Perfect Rake though. I like the secondary characters, Lady Elinore and Giles. I wish the author would make a book about them based on their point of view. I agree that it was too sudden though that must be because we don't get to see their development unlike Hope and Sebastian's. Over all it's a sweet story.

Very sweet... I wish the steam factor was more but the plot was good and kept moving... felt like some of the discussions could have happened earlier but then the story would have been over right LOL? I still have to read #3 but I think of the 3 I have read so far that the last one The Perfect Kiss is still my favorite. But now I have to hunt down The Perfect Stranger!

I really liked Sebastian and Hope and I loved them together. And I loved the way Gracie told their story. There's no melodrama, just honest misunderstandings and a few small-ish obstacles that Sebastian and Hope work through in a reasonable matter.

By the time Sebastian and Hope get together I felt they were well-suited and would be happy together.

I was somewhat disappointed in this because I went in expecting to love it, and while I didn't dislike it, it wasn't what I expected at all and it didn't do much for me. I think I might have liked it more if I hadn't read it this week, though? (I am having a weird week.) Either way, there were a lot of moving parts, and I wasn't into the Giles/Lady Elinore subplot. At times, I was also extremely distracted by some of the descriptive language, which I don't remember being a problem with the first More...

This is the second in the Merridew series - and the first book was fantastic, so it has a lot to live up to. I liked both the hero and heroine, and there were no stupid misunderstandings or cheating. It was sweet, but rather earnest and lacking the humor the first book possessed.

An interesting story with fun characters and a humorous romance of secondary character. Hope's joie de vivre is truly engaging, the hints to the future lives of her sisters fulfilling, and the belief in a lifetime HEA just what I want from my Romance.

Another impossibly romantic happy ever after regency novel with everyone finding passionate love, orphans finding happy homes, villains getting their just deserts. Just the book to read when you are a bit weary and need some sweetness

2° cap.della saga delle sorelle Merridew

Secondo appuntamento di Anne Gracie per le sorelle ""Virtù"". Davvero molto carino,con una doppia anzi tripla storia d'amore, al suo interno. Con dei bei finali anche qui.

This was my first Anne Gracie and, much as I love all of the ones I've read since, it is still my all-time favourite. Sebastian is so gorgeous with his sisters it breaks and remakes my heart anew every time!

I really enjoyed reading The Perfect Waltz. I had never read a book by Mrs. Gracie, but I will be looking for more by her from now on. I loved Sebastion and Hope, but I found myself drawn toward Giles about halfway through the book. I really want to read Faith's story now.