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Fortune's Mistress
In London society, girls are warned about the perils of hoydenish behavior. Their reputation once lost can never be retrieved. This is the story of Marianne Gardiner, one who fell from grace and into a world the ton never mentions. Is she lost forever, or will love save her from the fate of being Fortune's Mistress?
224 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 1, 1996
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October 25, 2013
Fortune’s Mistress has a cover reminiscent of the classics. Mary Chase Comstock tells a story of a high born girl who is forced to make the best of her circumstances. The book moves along at a good pace, and the story is predictable, though it is not your usual Regency romance.
Why do we read books like Fortune’s Mistress? Is there anything new happening, or anything unexpected here? No. I think it is the same reason everyone likes a Cinderella story even after their hair turns grey.
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Why do we read books like Fortune’s Mistress? Is there anything new happening, or anything unexpected here? No. I think it is the same reason everyone likes a Cinderella story even after their hair turns grey.
A MIllion Kindle Books
March 12, 2022
A look at the hypocrisy of the regency period. I almost didn’t read it because I thought it would be too stressful but once I got into it I could not put it down.
December 18, 2022
A lovely surprise book! Two wounded people falling in love. Not steamy but sweet, with lots of likeable other characters.
October 15, 2014
This is a tasty bit of historical fiction and while it deals with a potentially romantic situation on the one part and a disastrous romantic outcome on another part, to suggest that it is a romance might not do it justice. It is a totally entertaining and frustrating story that allows the reader to see the absurdity that was once British society and the possible damage the “Ton” could wrought. I look forward to reading more of Ms. Comstock’s analyses of those times. She accomplishes a most difficult task in creating compassion in the reader for the characters who never seem to give in to social pressures or to let the past dictate the future.
October 27, 2013
Very short read, focusing on social mores destroying more than helping the regency world. The surprise to me is the quick walk-on parts of the religious figures that ended up making this book feel more like a novel by George Macdonald than a regency romance.
November 3, 2013
Overall I liked it, but I could have done without the villain. In fact, I skipped about 20% of the book from when he first appeared in the village to the last chapter.
December 21, 2013
Lovely and fluffy.
April 27, 2017
A Fallen Lady Side of the Story
Usually mistresses have no purpose except background , nothing to make them alive , this author gave Marianne a voice.
Usually mistresses have no purpose except background , nothing to make them alive , this author gave Marianne a voice.
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews