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AN Impromptu Charade
Preferring the handsome tutor who has captured her heart to the stuffy lord her family would have her marry, Lady Elinor pretends to be a governess so that the desirable commoner will court her but is unaware of his secret title. Original.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1996
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July 24, 2015
The effort I went into procuring this book is at odds with the blow this book dealt me.
I came into this thinking that I'd get a delightful read or the heroine and hero falling in love while in their disguises, and then once the mask is taken off, they will have their HEA. What the blurb didn't say was how much drama there would be in the book.
Proposed new title: Everyone is cruel to Lady Elinor, regardless of their intentions or Misunderstandings, misunderstandings, misunderstandings
I almost could not stomach this book - Elinor is such a nice, sweet girl who wishes to escape her gilded cage but also tries to please her increasingly mean family.
Then, came the misunderstandings, which lasted well overly the majority of the book:
1) Her family thinks she is trying to elope with someone and is convinced to get her married off to the Duke of Wye
-> 2) Her sister is in love with the Duke of Wye (whole family knows) so she is just mean to Elinor all the time
-> 3) Her family mistakenly convinces her that her beloved knew who she was (he didn't) and sought to get her fortune
-> 4) The hero's grandmother convinces him that this "governess" is just a gold-digger
-> 5) Then Elinor's sister plays a spiteful trick and tells the hero that Elinor is the Duke of Wye's mistress
-> 6) The whole neighborhood, encouraged by the selfish Dowager Duchess of Wye, thinks Elinor is a hussy.
So, basically, THE WORLD HATES ELINOR! I am most angry with the treatment of the book's singularly lovable character, which almost made me stop reading this if not for my perverse interest in wondering how on earth there can be an HEA at the end.
:/ :/ :/
I came into this thinking that I'd get a delightful read or the heroine and hero falling in love while in their disguises, and then once the mask is taken off, they will have their HEA. What the blurb didn't say was how much drama there would be in the book.
Proposed new title: Everyone is cruel to Lady Elinor, regardless of their intentions or Misunderstandings, misunderstandings, misunderstandings
I almost could not stomach this book - Elinor is such a nice, sweet girl who wishes to escape her gilded cage but also tries to please her increasingly mean family.
Then, came the misunderstandings, which lasted well overly the majority of the book:
1) Her family thinks she is trying to elope with someone and is convinced to get her married off to the Duke of Wye
-> 2) Her sister is in love with the Duke of Wye (whole family knows) so she is just mean to Elinor all the time
-> 3) Her family mistakenly convinces her that her beloved knew who she was (he didn't) and sought to get her fortune
-> 4) The hero's grandmother convinces him that this "governess" is just a gold-digger
-> 5) Then Elinor's sister plays a spiteful trick and tells the hero that Elinor is the Duke of Wye's mistress
-> 6) The whole neighborhood, encouraged by the selfish Dowager Duchess of Wye, thinks Elinor is a hussy.
So, basically, THE WORLD HATES ELINOR! I am most angry with the treatment of the book's singularly lovable character, which almost made me stop reading this if not for my perverse interest in wondering how on earth there can be an HEA at the end.
:/ :/ :/
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