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Jun 05, 2011
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3 stars – Historical Romance
What a poorly plotted mess of a book! I'm sorry I wasted my money on it. The worst of it is, the book had real potential. The author writes well, has some interesting turns of a phrase and makes some nice incidental observations. The broad outlines of the plot are promising--the bluestocking Egyptologist and the former Army officer turned unexpected Duke meet when both are investigating the aftermath of an expedition to Egypt in which his brother went missing and her father had an apoplexy, leav
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This book combined my interest of all things Egyptian with romance.
Miss Cecily Hurston's Father is a renowned Egyptologist who returns from a trip in Egypt in a unconscious state. He's unable to speak and his journals are missing.
She searches for answers at the Egyptian Club where her Father is a member, but "no unmarried ladies allowed". So, she decides to marry a member of the Egyptian Club to get inside and search for answers. She meets Lucas Dalton, Duke of Winterson the day she is thrown o ...more
Miss Cecily Hurston's Father is a renowned Egyptologist who returns from a trip in Egypt in a unconscious state. He's unable to speak and his journals are missing.
She searches for answers at the Egyptian Club where her Father is a member, but "no unmarried ladies allowed". So, she decides to marry a member of the Egyptian Club to get inside and search for answers. She meets Lucas Dalton, Duke of Winterson the day she is thrown o ...more
Charming, with a truly engaging hero and heroine. I love a bit of mystery in my historicals, so this debut fits the bill nicely. Well done!
Both Cecily and Winterson are engaging characters. Cecily combines two of my favorite heroine types—the scholar and the ugly duckling. Not only does she possess a native intelligence but she had the discipline and determination to develop her intellectual gifts against the expectations of her world and her father’s opposition. I found her transformation from dowdy to divine completely credible because it’s a matter of using the right clothes, the right colors, and the right haircut to reveal her
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I enjoy these kind of books but this one just didn't work for me. I couldn't get the characters to act like real people, I couldn't get the plot to make much sense, and in the end I couldn't care about what happened to any of them.
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Jun 13, 2011
Naima
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Nov 25, 2011
Amy Ingles
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Annie
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Nasim
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Jan 03, 2012
Brittany
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Jan 15, 2012
Shidah
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Jan 28, 2012
Lisa
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Mar 12, 2012
Kathy
marked it as tbr-historical
