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Dec 09, 2013
Tina | readinginbliss
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Julia Quinn is always able to stuck me into her books from page one. It never fails. I really love Hugh's and Sarah's banter they had throughout the book. Enjoyable and quick read!
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I truly loved this tale. How could I not? This is romance in its purest form. Two people, Sarah and Hugh, are thrown together at a wedding. He has an injury to a leg involving a duel with Sarah's cousin and has a pronounced limp. She hates him and he hates himself. The duel was his fault and he actually shot her cousin without meaning to. Her cousin shot him too unintentionally and almost killed him. Hugh has spent his lifetime punishing himself especially because his father went out for revenge
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This is the 3rd book in the Smythe-Smith Quartet and is Hugh Prentice and Sarah Pleinsworth's story. I was very excited to finally FINALLY see the infamous card game and subsequent duel between Hugh and Daniel Smythe-Smith that was mentioned in the previous two books. It was great and really paid off the suspense leading up to it.
I really liked this book, including the awkward attempts at conversations between Hugh and Sarah at the beginning of the story and then the more natural banter that dev ...more
I really liked this book, including the awkward attempts at conversations between Hugh and Sarah at the beginning of the story and then the more natural banter that dev ...more
I consider Julia Quinn a must-read, must-buy author. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, #3 in the Smythe-Smith Quartet of books.
2015 addition: A splendid example of a well-done enemies to lovers story. Quinn really takes us into the backstory of the hero and the complete history of the duel which formed the backdrop for all three of the novels so far in the quartet. And for a man tortured by pain and the knowledge of how much he has lost in his own eyes and the eyes of Society, seeing him fall in ...more
2015 addition: A splendid example of a well-done enemies to lovers story. Quinn really takes us into the backstory of the hero and the complete history of the duel which formed the backdrop for all three of the novels so far in the quartet. And for a man tortured by pain and the knowledge of how much he has lost in his own eyes and the eyes of Society, seeing him fall in ...more
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