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Mar 01, 2012
Kimberly Rocha~ Book Obsessed Chicks
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Banging on the his front door in the middle of the night, bookish and plain Minerva Highwood has a plan to keep confirmed rake Colin Sandhurst, Lord Payne away from her younger sister, fake an elopement . You see, Minerva has heard through the grapevine in Spindle Cove's beachfront community, that Lord Payne was about to propose to Diana, her younger sister and she's aghast.
Minerva is a budding geologist and has made an astounding find in a cave near her home and she needs to be in Edinburgh, Sc ...more

The women of Spindle Cove are unconventional and outcasts from ton society. Most are there because of illness, a scandal, or some quirk that the mores of the time don't accept. Minerva is a geologist (horrors!) who comes to Spindle Cove because of a sickly sister and thrives. Finally, a place were she can wear spectacles, walk and read at the same time, research rocks to her hearts content! I bonded with Minerva, and related to her in a way rare for heroines(sans the fascination with rocks). She
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Probably 2.5 stars, which pains me to say. I might have liked it more if I wasn't distracted by some geology issues in the beginning. But then the book just rolls from one set of shenanigans to the next and so much seems to happen that I almost have whiplash. Maybe I wanted to like this too much and expectations were too high.
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Feb 15, 2012
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