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Caught In A Dream
The reality was--her Baron was no prince
Cassy's grandfather indulged in two expensive pastimes--playing "lord cT ,: Manor" and betting the ponies. Both pleasures overreached his means to support them, and now the crunch had come--eviction from his Somerset estate.
And although Cassy hadn't the heart to allow this, she certainly hadn't the funds to prevent it. Only one person had the power and the wealth to do that--her "no love lost" neighbor and landlord, Sir James Clayton.
However, the maxim "There's no harm in asking" backfired. Sir James would help, but what he wanted in return was her!
Cassy's grandfather indulged in two expensive pastimes--playing "lord cT ,: Manor" and betting the ponies. Both pleasures overreached his means to support them, and now the crunch had come--eviction from his Somerset estate.
And although Cassy hadn't the heart to allow this, she certainly hadn't the funds to prevent it. Only one person had the power and the wealth to do that--her "no love lost" neighbor and landlord, Sir James Clayton.
However, the maxim "There's no harm in asking" backfired. Sir James would help, but what he wanted in return was her!
- GenresHarlequin Presents
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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Susanne McCarthy
92 books70 followersI'm a Londoner, though now I live in Devon, a twenty-minute walk from the sea. I love nothing more than walking my pretty Cavapoo on the beach in the rain (well, OK, I don't object to the sun, but when it's raining we usually have the whole beach to ourselves.)
Back in the day I had 25 novels published by Mills&Boon. After a long gap doing other things I found my love of writing again, and self-published three new novels.
But I knew that to reach more readers I needed an established publisher. Step in Joffe Books. They were top of my list so I was delighted when they accepted the first novel I sent them.
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Back in the day I had 25 novels published by Mills&Boon. After a long gap doing other things I found my love of writing again, and self-published three new novels.
But I knew that to reach more readers I needed an established publisher. Step in Joffe Books. They were top of my list so I was delighted when they accepted the first novel I sent them.
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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November 28, 2016
Re Caught in a Dream - So drumroll please - SMcC brings us the first HPLandia experience of a woman who actually sells herself for money - despite having a valid marriage offer on the table. It is for the usual time honoured reasons of the h's only relative pimping her out because he got himself into a mess, but never before has it been so bluntly put and the H is actually not the pimp grandaddy's choice. I give bonus marks for the h being really forthright in her proposition and totally willing to follow through on the actual act, this h is no missish doormat.
The story starts with the h in New York and bidding on antique desk for her job as an antique buyer. She loses the bid to a rival that is from her home county of Somerset, he is the local Baron and her family holds a Viscountcy and are his long term rivals. The H asks her out, and cognizant of the very bad blood between her family and his due to some murky past relations, she declines the offer.
We find out the h is an orphan, her high-flying parents died when she was a child and her only relative, a widowed grandfather, sent her to boarding school - which wasn't her favorite place as the girls were pretty mean about her scandalous parents and their friends being in the gossip columns all the time. The h managed to survive tho, in part because her grandfather would tell the most wonderful stories, intermixed with tales of the how the Baronial rivals cheated him of his fortune and done him wrong. The h wholeheartedly believes these stories, her grandpa is her only relative and nice to her, so she never thinks to question any of it.
The h has been in NYC for about six years, she works for a big antique dealer who is always trying to marry her off to her son, tho the h doesn't want that as she is afraid of turning into her over-managing and domineering boss. Then she gets a letter from her grandfather that alarms her greatly, it seems horrible things are happening and ruination and possible destruction appear to be close at hand. She goes back to England to check on things and the H is the first person she sees. He asks her out again, but she isn't too keen and besides Grandpa is waiting to meet her and she has to see what is up. The H carries her case to Grandpa's Rolls for her, gets rebuffed by her grandfather and the h goes on to the family home.
Where she finds out that Grandpa doesn't own the house, he only leased it from the Baron for fifty years when he married the Baron's sister, (and it will cost $120,000 to buy, which neither of them have.) Poor Grandma died within a year of the marriage, and poor Grandpa has been bereft ever since. Not to worry tho, Grandpa does have his little gambling amusements to keep him happy, in fact he has a really nice new gambling friend he wants the h to be nice too. The h is properly horrified at the shady new friend who makes inappropriate advances and crude comments. She is also horrified at the H when he passionately kisses her and says he wants to collect her when the h tries to talk to him about letting her Grandpa stay on in his home.
Grandpa plays up his bewildered and befuddled act and the h realizes that he is getting on and the house may be too much for his elderly but loyal staff to handle. She decides she needs to stay in England and look after everybody, but she is very hesitant to give up her career as there isn't much locally. She doesn't have to worry for long tho, cause skeevy grabby slimy dude is ready to offer marriage and Grandpa is doing hes best to sell the h off to the guy.
The H comes up with a counter offer of offering how ever much money the h wants, if she will be his mistress. After dinner out with the skeevy guy, who thinks he has an ace in the pocket because Grandpa owes him $40,000.00, the h calls skeevy guy out on his conversation and goes to leave him at the table. When he follows her and calls her a nasty name and then goes to slap her in the lobby of the restaurant, the H comes after them, ( he was dinning there too,) and punches skeevy guy out.
The H takes the h home and she decides that if the H will give her the money to pay the skeevy grabby slimy guy off and let Grandpa stay in the house, she will agree to be his mistress. She goes to the H and makes her proposition. The H agrees, except the h has to be a live in mistress, can't have a job and the H will let the Grandpa stay in his house - but he won't let him have a lease or a rental agreement, so if the h backs out or doesn't give job satisfaction, then out in the streets Grandpa goes.
The h doesn't like it, but Grandpa is old and frail and won't move, so she agrees and moves in. Then she hits on the idear of being the European buyer for her old boss, she will go around when the H is busy with business stuff and buy things at estate sales and ship it over to her old boss for a commission. This works great for the h, she can afford to rewire Grandpa's house and get rid of the damp (which really the H should have done as it was his house really,) and she can pay a daily girl to help the elderly staff out, tho the elderly housekeeper won't speak to her cause she is living in sin with the H.
The H knew the h was inexperienced when she agreed to his offer but the big consummation moment goes swimmingly and all the rest that follow are great as well. The h confesses that she loves the H, tho he doesn't believe her. The h did pay off slimy skeevy grabby guy, but she unfortunately runs into him again and she pushes him off and he tells her she will be sorry. The h is also finding that the H's staff has a lot of people who she thought were her friends when she was younger, and they are all politely contemptuous about her 'mistress' status too.
(This really is a mishmash of Victorian morals with the locals and the h's closest relatives and friends and a very modern outlook on the h's attitude towards shacking up and taking money from the H and the contrasts prove to be fairly entertaining. The H refers to them as having a live in relationship, and he doesn't make a big thing about her 'mistress' status, he is used to ladies being pricey I guess.)
The h bravely carries on tho, and she starts to find out that all those stories Grandpa told about the family and their rivalries with their local neighbors were flat out lies. The men in the h's family have always been huge gamblers and Grandpa lost his fortune gambling with the H's father all those years ago. Grandma killed herself after Grandpa went on a big gambling spree and lost all her money. The H's father was her brother and she couldn't face the fact that he warned her not to marry the h's Grandpa, so she committed suicide out of a mixture of shame and a broken heart.
The h confronts her Grandpa about these falsehoods when he comes to visit the h at the H's magnificent (and full of pricey objects,) ancestral Hall. He admits he made up some stuff, but really he meant well and he only gambles a bit now and then and uses people for his own ends cause he is old and he needs to be comfortable. The h realizes that Grandpa is a lying selfish user, but he is her Grandpa and she does love him really. Besides, she is lurvin it up with the H and being in love with him too and riding horses about the Estate, and she only hopes the H doesn't get tired of her really soon.
Then the H decides that they need to go to London, the H can work overseeing his vast empire from his office during the day and he can take the h about at night. The first night that they are in London tho, the H has to cancel his plans because of a crisis. The h tells him that she is sad cause she was missing him and wanted to hang out with him at home, the H is surprised she wasn't chomping at the bit to go out and party.
He assumed that because she was hanging out with slimy skeevy guy (who is a known wild party hound,) that the h would be pining for the flesh pots. The h explains about the whole situation between Grandpa and the slime pit and the H says that they have a lot to talk about. The h is happy that the H may finally be starting to believe her protestations of love, but then the H's house gets robbed and things get really tense between them.
Finally the H accuses the h of staging the robbery, a receipt for the H's antique clock was discovered after an auction in Florida listing the h's grandpa as the seller and the h is on the list as having shipped antiques to the States. The h is very hurt, but she explains her part time career and shows the H the receipts for what she bought. She does have a niggling suspicion that Grandpa might be up to bad tricks tho, cause when he came to visit her, she showed him the security system and introduced the dogs to him. The H figures it out too and we all go off to confront Grandpa with his misdeeds. Grandpa admits he set the robbery up cause he owed the skeevy slimy grabby guy more money and would be let out of a lawsuit if he helped, but then adds that skeevy slimy grabby guy ran off to Europe cause the police were after him.
The h has to chase after the H again to beg him not do horrible things to her grandpa and the H acts all surprised that the h would even think such a thing. He explains that he loves the h too, he was worried when she was with the thief cause he though she was aiming to marry money and had a gambling problem, especially when she made him pay for her services so to speak. But then he realized that he just did not care, cause he wanted to protect her and figured she was in trouble and she turned the other guy down and did not beg the H to marry her. Now the H decides that they should marry and the h admits that she still would have shacked up with him, even if she hadn't needed the money. The h and H are blissfully lurving it up and shocking the locals and planning the big white wedding for the HEA.
This one was cute, in a very Upstairs/Downstairs sorta way. The H isn't really mean, he did have reasons to suspect the h and for a woman who is stuck in a melodramatic Victorian HPlandia situation, the h acquits herself very well. She has no intention of waiting around like a harem slave for the H and she doesn't want to be a cabbage, so she figures out a decent career for herself and she doesn't ask the H for anything more than to not kick out her Grandpa and to front her the cash she needs to save the family.
I liked it, the two of them were well matched and it was a quintessentially snobby English aristo HP love story in the most amusing of ways. Give this one a go if you like the period pieces or like the old skool aristo romance, this one is a fun little HP jaunt and worth the read.
The story starts with the h in New York and bidding on antique desk for her job as an antique buyer. She loses the bid to a rival that is from her home county of Somerset, he is the local Baron and her family holds a Viscountcy and are his long term rivals. The H asks her out, and cognizant of the very bad blood between her family and his due to some murky past relations, she declines the offer.
We find out the h is an orphan, her high-flying parents died when she was a child and her only relative, a widowed grandfather, sent her to boarding school - which wasn't her favorite place as the girls were pretty mean about her scandalous parents and their friends being in the gossip columns all the time. The h managed to survive tho, in part because her grandfather would tell the most wonderful stories, intermixed with tales of the how the Baronial rivals cheated him of his fortune and done him wrong. The h wholeheartedly believes these stories, her grandpa is her only relative and nice to her, so she never thinks to question any of it.
The h has been in NYC for about six years, she works for a big antique dealer who is always trying to marry her off to her son, tho the h doesn't want that as she is afraid of turning into her over-managing and domineering boss. Then she gets a letter from her grandfather that alarms her greatly, it seems horrible things are happening and ruination and possible destruction appear to be close at hand. She goes back to England to check on things and the H is the first person she sees. He asks her out again, but she isn't too keen and besides Grandpa is waiting to meet her and she has to see what is up. The H carries her case to Grandpa's Rolls for her, gets rebuffed by her grandfather and the h goes on to the family home.
Where she finds out that Grandpa doesn't own the house, he only leased it from the Baron for fifty years when he married the Baron's sister, (and it will cost $120,000 to buy, which neither of them have.) Poor Grandma died within a year of the marriage, and poor Grandpa has been bereft ever since. Not to worry tho, Grandpa does have his little gambling amusements to keep him happy, in fact he has a really nice new gambling friend he wants the h to be nice too. The h is properly horrified at the shady new friend who makes inappropriate advances and crude comments. She is also horrified at the H when he passionately kisses her and says he wants to collect her when the h tries to talk to him about letting her Grandpa stay on in his home.
Grandpa plays up his bewildered and befuddled act and the h realizes that he is getting on and the house may be too much for his elderly but loyal staff to handle. She decides she needs to stay in England and look after everybody, but she is very hesitant to give up her career as there isn't much locally. She doesn't have to worry for long tho, cause skeevy grabby slimy dude is ready to offer marriage and Grandpa is doing hes best to sell the h off to the guy.
The H comes up with a counter offer of offering how ever much money the h wants, if she will be his mistress. After dinner out with the skeevy guy, who thinks he has an ace in the pocket because Grandpa owes him $40,000.00, the h calls skeevy guy out on his conversation and goes to leave him at the table. When he follows her and calls her a nasty name and then goes to slap her in the lobby of the restaurant, the H comes after them, ( he was dinning there too,) and punches skeevy guy out.
The H takes the h home and she decides that if the H will give her the money to pay the skeevy grabby slimy guy off and let Grandpa stay in the house, she will agree to be his mistress. She goes to the H and makes her proposition. The H agrees, except the h has to be a live in mistress, can't have a job and the H will let the Grandpa stay in his house - but he won't let him have a lease or a rental agreement, so if the h backs out or doesn't give job satisfaction, then out in the streets Grandpa goes.
The h doesn't like it, but Grandpa is old and frail and won't move, so she agrees and moves in. Then she hits on the idear of being the European buyer for her old boss, she will go around when the H is busy with business stuff and buy things at estate sales and ship it over to her old boss for a commission. This works great for the h, she can afford to rewire Grandpa's house and get rid of the damp (which really the H should have done as it was his house really,) and she can pay a daily girl to help the elderly staff out, tho the elderly housekeeper won't speak to her cause she is living in sin with the H.
The H knew the h was inexperienced when she agreed to his offer but the big consummation moment goes swimmingly and all the rest that follow are great as well. The h confesses that she loves the H, tho he doesn't believe her. The h did pay off slimy skeevy grabby guy, but she unfortunately runs into him again and she pushes him off and he tells her she will be sorry. The h is also finding that the H's staff has a lot of people who she thought were her friends when she was younger, and they are all politely contemptuous about her 'mistress' status too.
(This really is a mishmash of Victorian morals with the locals and the h's closest relatives and friends and a very modern outlook on the h's attitude towards shacking up and taking money from the H and the contrasts prove to be fairly entertaining. The H refers to them as having a live in relationship, and he doesn't make a big thing about her 'mistress' status, he is used to ladies being pricey I guess.)
The h bravely carries on tho, and she starts to find out that all those stories Grandpa told about the family and their rivalries with their local neighbors were flat out lies. The men in the h's family have always been huge gamblers and Grandpa lost his fortune gambling with the H's father all those years ago. Grandma killed herself after Grandpa went on a big gambling spree and lost all her money. The H's father was her brother and she couldn't face the fact that he warned her not to marry the h's Grandpa, so she committed suicide out of a mixture of shame and a broken heart.
The h confronts her Grandpa about these falsehoods when he comes to visit the h at the H's magnificent (and full of pricey objects,) ancestral Hall. He admits he made up some stuff, but really he meant well and he only gambles a bit now and then and uses people for his own ends cause he is old and he needs to be comfortable. The h realizes that Grandpa is a lying selfish user, but he is her Grandpa and she does love him really. Besides, she is lurvin it up with the H and being in love with him too and riding horses about the Estate, and she only hopes the H doesn't get tired of her really soon.
Then the H decides that they need to go to London, the H can work overseeing his vast empire from his office during the day and he can take the h about at night. The first night that they are in London tho, the H has to cancel his plans because of a crisis. The h tells him that she is sad cause she was missing him and wanted to hang out with him at home, the H is surprised she wasn't chomping at the bit to go out and party.
He assumed that because she was hanging out with slimy skeevy guy (who is a known wild party hound,) that the h would be pining for the flesh pots. The h explains about the whole situation between Grandpa and the slime pit and the H says that they have a lot to talk about. The h is happy that the H may finally be starting to believe her protestations of love, but then the H's house gets robbed and things get really tense between them.
Finally the H accuses the h of staging the robbery, a receipt for the H's antique clock was discovered after an auction in Florida listing the h's grandpa as the seller and the h is on the list as having shipped antiques to the States. The h is very hurt, but she explains her part time career and shows the H the receipts for what she bought. She does have a niggling suspicion that Grandpa might be up to bad tricks tho, cause when he came to visit her, she showed him the security system and introduced the dogs to him. The H figures it out too and we all go off to confront Grandpa with his misdeeds. Grandpa admits he set the robbery up cause he owed the skeevy slimy grabby guy more money and would be let out of a lawsuit if he helped, but then adds that skeevy slimy grabby guy ran off to Europe cause the police were after him.
The h has to chase after the H again to beg him not do horrible things to her grandpa and the H acts all surprised that the h would even think such a thing. He explains that he loves the h too, he was worried when she was with the thief cause he though she was aiming to marry money and had a gambling problem, especially when she made him pay for her services so to speak. But then he realized that he just did not care, cause he wanted to protect her and figured she was in trouble and she turned the other guy down and did not beg the H to marry her. Now the H decides that they should marry and the h admits that she still would have shacked up with him, even if she hadn't needed the money. The h and H are blissfully lurving it up and shocking the locals and planning the big white wedding for the HEA.
This one was cute, in a very Upstairs/Downstairs sorta way. The H isn't really mean, he did have reasons to suspect the h and for a woman who is stuck in a melodramatic Victorian HPlandia situation, the h acquits herself very well. She has no intention of waiting around like a harem slave for the H and she doesn't want to be a cabbage, so she figures out a decent career for herself and she doesn't ask the H for anything more than to not kick out her Grandpa and to front her the cash she needs to save the family.
I liked it, the two of them were well matched and it was a quintessentially snobby English aristo HP love story in the most amusing of ways. Give this one a go if you like the period pieces or like the old skool aristo romance, this one is a fun little HP jaunt and worth the read.
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March 18, 2013
Settings: NYC and England
Tropes: virgin heroine selling herself to save her leeching family
I had to check the publishing date to make sure that this Harlequin is from 1989 instead of the 1940s. This is one of those snobby throwbacks where the daughter of a viscount sells herself to a baronet to pay off her grandfather's gambling debts and everyone wears dinner jackets and evening gowns or go horseback riding. I must have been in the right mood bc I found it rather quaint than offensive.
4 stars, I guess.
Tropes: virgin heroine selling herself to save her leeching family
I had to check the publishing date to make sure that this Harlequin is from 1989 instead of the 1940s. This is one of those snobby throwbacks where the daughter of a viscount sells herself to a baronet to pay off her grandfather's gambling debts and everyone wears dinner jackets and evening gowns or go horseback riding. I must have been in the right mood bc I found it rather quaint than offensive.
4 stars, I guess.
May 3, 2013
3.75 stars -- this was decent, but not great. I thought the story was glib and the ending was rushed and somewhat incomprehensible (I'm not sure exactly what changed the hero's mind about the heroine, I guess it was the fact that someone else had been pressuring her to marry him?). I'm not sure what else was off for me -- maybe that the characters' reactions and emotions didn't seem quite believable -- the author told us their reactions, but they didn't seem to fit perfectly with what was going on in the plot. Like the hero would smile when I was expecting him to be angry. Still, it was a decent story and reasonably satisfying.
June 7, 2015
Amusing little read. The main characters are so snobby and spoiled. I loved it! It was like reading a historical (my favorite genre). They're off horseback riding along the English countryside and take grand tours of their family estates. The hero is filthy rich with a humongous ego and the heroine is a broke aristocrat who is accustomed to being fawned over. I just don't understand when or why they fell in love. They hardly spend any time together. When they do, it's entertaining. For instance, their closing scene was lovely. Equally as entertaining is the ice princess heroine's exploits and little outbursts (story is purely from her POV).
Bottom line: Fun read, but lacks depthand not much of a love story.
Bottom line: Fun read, but lacks depthand not much of a love story.
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April 10, 2021The reality was--her Baron was no prince
Cassy's grandfather indulged in two expensive pastimes--playing "lord cT ,: Manor" and betting the ponies. Both pleasures overreached his means to support them, and now the crunch had come--eviction from his Somerset estate.
And although Cassy hadn't the heart to allow this, she certainly hadn't the funds to prevent it. Only one person had the power and the wealth to do that--her "no love lost" neighbor and landlord, Sir James Clayton.
However, the maxim "There's no harm in asking" backfired. Sir James would help, but what he wanted in return was her!
Cassy's grandfather indulged in two expensive pastimes--playing "lord cT ,: Manor" and betting the ponies. Both pleasures overreached his means to support them, and now the crunch had come--eviction from his Somerset estate.
And although Cassy hadn't the heart to allow this, she certainly hadn't the funds to prevent it. Only one person had the power and the wealth to do that--her "no love lost" neighbor and landlord, Sir James Clayton.
However, the maxim "There's no harm in asking" backfired. Sir James would help, but what he wanted in return was her!
November 19, 2021
2.5 stars for the botched ending.
The first 1/3rd was so promising - independent granddaughter of a British Viscount, living the life in New York since the last 6 years, classy end elegant: "It was easy to recognise the pedigree—she had that willowy English-rose beauty that could never be counterfeited. Her skin was as translucent as porcelain, her features as delicately moulded, and she wore her silver-blonde hair in a sleek coil at the nape of her neck. There was a smile of satisfaction in those fine sapphire-blue eyes." Hmmm...
The H is a Baron, tall and uber duber super ginormously rich and they're neighbors too. They happen to run into each other in NYC at an antiques auction and spar verbally. Sparks fly. The H is clearly besotted, and he practically asks her out on the spot a dozen times whenever they meet. Even the premise of the h having to choose between the sleazy tradesman-become-filthy-rich and the H was fair enough. I almost forgave her grandfather for being a compulsive gambler and liar cause he was above 80 years old.
The reason I dropped the stars is the H. I guess I did expect a sold-to-the-millionaire story somewhere but I definitely didn't expect the H to be so bold about it. After their 1st real meal together he just comes out with it, saying sth like - I have full intention of taking you to bed, I will never ever marry you, and please don't expect me to say I've fallen in love with you. I want you to know the score, that's all. I've opened my chequebook sooooo many times (for other women, it is implied) in Bond Street and I know you're used to the good stuff too so I'll provide you all that. The book had spent a lot of paragraphs emphasizing how truly aristrocratic the H was, how proper, classy, how under control and polite, so for him to be so blunt was a major turn off and lost interest and skimmed onwards.
Anyway, off the h goes to live in sin in the H's house when previously she had been scared of being seen in the same car with him. One of the reviewers say the H treats her like a blow up doll; because of my bias I now felt the same. Their first time together is glossed over, and the two other times I recall were once in the open garden and an attempted one next to a tree (he got her skirt up and everything but a neighbor showed up). That just smacked cheap in the context of this story and his previous disclaimer. If he had shown sign of being in love, those same scenes would have made me drool.
The ending was rushed, the H is suddenly in love with her and wants the biggest white wedding in the history of England, and curtains close. OH and he also at one point thinks she stole from him but tbh he did catch her snooping in his house more than once before they were 'friends'.
The first 1/3rd was so promising - independent granddaughter of a British Viscount, living the life in New York since the last 6 years, classy end elegant: "It was easy to recognise the pedigree—she had that willowy English-rose beauty that could never be counterfeited. Her skin was as translucent as porcelain, her features as delicately moulded, and she wore her silver-blonde hair in a sleek coil at the nape of her neck. There was a smile of satisfaction in those fine sapphire-blue eyes." Hmmm...
The H is a Baron, tall and uber duber super ginormously rich and they're neighbors too. They happen to run into each other in NYC at an antiques auction and spar verbally. Sparks fly. The H is clearly besotted, and he practically asks her out on the spot a dozen times whenever they meet. Even the premise of the h having to choose between the sleazy tradesman-become-filthy-rich and the H was fair enough. I almost forgave her grandfather for being a compulsive gambler and liar cause he was above 80 years old.
The reason I dropped the stars is the H. I guess I did expect a sold-to-the-millionaire story somewhere but I definitely didn't expect the H to be so bold about it. After their 1st real meal together he just comes out with it, saying sth like - I have full intention of taking you to bed, I will never ever marry you, and please don't expect me to say I've fallen in love with you. I want you to know the score, that's all. I've opened my chequebook sooooo many times (for other women, it is implied) in Bond Street and I know you're used to the good stuff too so I'll provide you all that. The book had spent a lot of paragraphs emphasizing how truly aristrocratic the H was, how proper, classy, how under control and polite, so for him to be so blunt was a major turn off and lost interest and skimmed onwards.
Anyway, off the h goes to live in sin in the H's house when previously she had been scared of being seen in the same car with him. One of the reviewers say the H treats her like a blow up doll; because of my bias I now felt the same. Their first time together is glossed over, and the two other times I recall were once in the open garden and an attempted one next to a tree (he got her skirt up and everything but a neighbor showed up). That just smacked cheap in the context of this story and his previous disclaimer. If he had shown sign of being in love, those same scenes would have made me drool.
The ending was rushed, the H is suddenly in love with her and wants the biggest white wedding in the history of England, and curtains close. OH and he also at one point thinks she stole from him but tbh he did catch her snooping in his house more than once before they were 'friends'.
June 5, 2019
My type of romance!
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