Dls’s Comments (group member since Sep 14, 2010)

Dls’s comments from the Fans of Eloisa James & Julia Quinn group.

Ok Aly you can post the answer...

I definitely haven't read it but based on writing style I have an idea who the author is.

Sarah Mayberry has a book with the heroine having the same job...

Starting the new Thea Harrison. Really annoyed that two books I thought were being released in May (Balogh and Julie James) are now scheduled for June. Gonna be a bleak May.

Ok Rachel you can post the answer!

Agree on all three fronts.

Not sure. Probably the new Thea Harrison and Julie James

This is Story Guy by Mary Ann Rivers. It's a contemporary.

I loved In for a Penny too and agree it was very Balogh. Not all her books are quite so much like that but I love her writing.

I finished The One In My Heart. This is one where I didn't like the story line that much but loved the dialogue.

Janga who wrote Ridiculous ?

The new ST is her first contemporary "the one in my heart"

I really liked Duchess by Night.
About to read the new Sherry Thomas.

Nope not NA

This is a pretty new-to-me author and I love her stuff. Her people are good people already adults, struggling with real (if not everyday) problems, not just the need to grow up or learn to communicate, and her writing moves from earthy to really beautiful. Her writing is romantic in the best sense—because the heroes and heroines are people whose love is really worth having. Plus, I am a sucker for the first person.


“Hero”, I ask, turning him toward me as the NP moves discretely away to talk to an aide, “What do you need? Talk to me a little.”

He blows out another breath. “It’s just…” He lets go of my hand and grabs the nape of his neck. His eyes are brimming. “It’s just that she’s mine, you know? I get her, I know how to listen to her. Who will know her here? What if she’s scared? I won’t be here to know if she’s scared.

“She’s still just—a kid. I know that’s not really true, but she is. I never wanted her not to be with family. Alone. And I think I won’t know how to be without her. I thought I was ready, and I hate that more and more, I can’t—“ His tears are spilling now, and his voice is cracking. I can’t stop swallowing over my own sobs. “I hate that I can’t take care of her any more. I’m her big brother, heroine. Fuck. Just fuck this. Just fuck this.”

All of his own fear to bear, and he’s ready to shoulder [sister’s] too.

When I reach up to hold him, I’m afraid he’ll resist, but he is nearly boneless against me, in that way he has, and he rests his face against my neck even though he must know he looks ridiculous, nearly bent in half to let my petite frame
embrace him.

“Heroine?” His lips move against my neck.

“Yeah.”

“Other than it’s Wednesday, I can’t think of a worse time to tell you this—“

“What?” I pull back, and he takes my hands.

“I love you. I couldn’t be more of a mess right now, but I can’t believe I haven’t told you because I have, for so long now, and it’s like I don’t have anything else to give you, anyway. Not time. Not my full attention. Not the kind of boyfriend you deserve. But my heart, such as it is, you do have that.”

I am struck by my previous reluctance for regret, as if regret were the worst possible consequence of living. If I never wanted orchids, well, I never wanted daisies, either, common and sturdy.

To have the love of this man, who knows what it is to sacrifice his life for love, I would have waited longer.

Plus the hero of Not quite a husband pretty much defines romantic love in my opinion. Makes me think of Persuasion and Anne claiming women love more when all hope is gone.
And I love how at the end we seem them laughing and happy together in a way that really convinces us they will work as a couple.
One of my all time favorite romances.
Sigh.

I am a huge fan of Sherry Thomas. I love Not Quite a Husband but apparently most people are not that fond of it.

Definitely haven't read this.

Reading history and waiting for the new Sherry Thomaa

I am pretty sure I have not!
I must say its impressive how she refuses to take his lack of interest as a rejection of her...

I'm reading Jo Beverley's new book and then Jessica Scott.

John Beyond the Sunrise is an early Balogh and much more angsty than her recent work. I like some of those and not others but whether you like it or not try the recent books too---A Summer to Love and the Slightly series...