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All About Passion (Cynster #7) Start Date: December 3rd
ParticipantsShoSho
Susan
CaroB
Lisa Kay
Yesss the 3rd
Bring it on, Chillingsworth!
I'll try to read the last one this week to catch up with you all for this.
I'm going to try to join this one, too!
Hey, me too, I'm for sure in!
Yaaay I don't know what to do. start this now or start it tomorrow with you . it's already 3rd here
Go ahead aNd start it, shosho. That way you don't have to start something else. And it is the 3rd there :)
Susan (susayq) wrote: "Go ahead aNd start it, shosho. That way you don't have to start something else. And it is the 3rd there :)"Okey-dokey :D
I'll do the first set of Qs
PS.I don't know what I meant by that Yaay in previous post!!!!
:) I just assumed you were super ready for Chillingsworth ;)
Susan (susayq) wrote: ":) I just assumed you were super ready for Chillingsworth ;)"Oooohhh I AM ready for chillingsworth !!!!
His name is Gyles !!! Did you know that?
No, I didn't know that. I've only heard him called Chillingsworth
I read to chapter 5 already after we finished #6 lol. I'm so ready to get back to dear Chillingsworth, I like him a lot already. :)
Y'all are making me want to start right now lol
Susan (susayq) wrote: "Y'all are making me want to start right now lol"Start then! are you reading something else?
Yeah, I'm reading
it's ok, but I can put it on hold to start this :)
just finished chapter 5 but can't stop now , I'll read chapter 6 and then will do the Qs .
Ok, I can take the second set, I just finished chapter 8. :)
Questions for chapter 1-6 1- How the hell keeping something that is yours and only giving part of it away is generous? I know that’s the way things were at those ages but still I don’t like it. Is it generous?
2- How did you like how the mistaken identity part played out? After reading the blurb I was expecting someone to deceive him, but it seemed it was just a simple misunderstanding.
3- I think if I was in Francesca’s place I would have taken offence for a different reason. I’d have felt he is cheating on me with me. How do you feel about that?
4- I hated the scene she fell of the horse. It’s always like this the heroines are showed weaker by having an accident.
5- I loved how she first found out and then he saw her in church and then he was trying to explain to her what has happened at table , loved that scene
"I didn't mean to suggest you are not a perfectly acceptable bride." Lol
6- I think that Charles will confront him about talking to Franny and the mistake Gyles had made , what do you think?
7- What do you think of Gyles’s mother? A replica of Devil’s mom and aunts?
8- It seems that there won’t be any mystery , do you miss it?
I took my older girls shopping today. Jenna's birthday is tomorrow so we're doing the celebrating today. I'll start this this afternoon when I get home :)
Kit★'s Answers to ShoSho's Questions for Ch 1-61- How the hell keeping something that is yours and only giving part of it away is generous? I know that’s the way things were at those ages but still I don’t like it. Is it generous?
Well, for the times yes, for the husband to allow the wife to retain any money and property she brought to the marriage instead of taking it all for himself I think is generous. Especially when you read stories about the guy who wants to marry the heiress simply for his own greed. But to my modern woman sensibilities, not so much, lol.
2- How did you like how the mistaken identity part played out? After reading the blurb I was expecting someone to deceive him, but it seemed it was just a simple misunderstanding.
I was really hoping the confusion would go on a little longer, and be more dramatic in it's reveal. I was having fun there in Ch 1-5 laughing at Gyles, and then when he learned who Francesca really was... I dunno, it just seemed kind of anti-climactic. They didn't even really have a big blow up or nothing about it. She yelled at him in Italian for awhile and then they had sex. Whoop-de-doo. I was wanting some drama.
3- I think if I was in Francesca’s place I would have taken offence for a different reason. I’d have felt he is cheating on me with me. How do you feel about that?
Well, it's not really cheating if he's cheating on you with you and not another woman, but I get the idea, that he thought she was a different woman than he was going to marry, and so yea, that makes him kinda not nice lol. But I'm still liking him a lot.
4- I hated the scene she fell of the horse. It’s always like this the heroines are showed weaker by having an accident.
I know, right?! They always gotta make the woman seem weak, or not as clever, why can't it be the men falling on their asses looking like fools?
5- I loved how she first found out and then he saw her in church and then he was trying to explain to her what has happened at table, loved that scene
"I didn't mean to suggest you are not a perfectly acceptable bride." Lol
With the anger and stuff she was feeling when she realized he thought she was not his intended bride, I was really hoping for it to play out in a more exciting way or something. He didn't handle it at all how I was thinking he would.
6- I think that Charles will confront him about talking to Franny and the mistake Gyles had made , what do you think?
I don't think Charles is aware of it at all. I'm thinking Francesca will be the one to talk to Franni to try to smooth things over.
7- What do you think of Gyles’s mother? A replica of Devil’s mom and aunts?
Yea, she seems cut from similar cloth. I like her (and the Cynster dames too) though. It's good to see a loving, accepting mother-in-law instead of the stereotypical witchy ones.
8- It seems that there won’t be any mystery , do you miss it?
In these first few chapters, no, because I was all excited to see how the mistaken-identity thing was going to work out. But if the story starts to get sluggish with nothing but sex and his refusals to admit to caring for her happening, then I might get bored and want some mystery. I'm hoping the story doesn't get sluggish though, because so far I think I like it the best of the series as of yet.
Finally some kind mystery !
In chapter 16 and 17 ,chills and frans are arguing over something but I don't get what's going one and why they do and say the thing they say.let me know what you think when you get there
I'm so behind! I'm only on chapter 2. After spending the day shopping with the girls (and grandkids), we went to the Christmas parade last night. By the time we got back home it was almost 8 and I was exhausted. My plan today is to read, read, read :) Of course, I've got to throw doing some laundry in there and I need to go get kitty litter and stuff for chicken alfredo (Lauren is cooking tonight). If you ladies see me on GR today, tell me to get back to reading LOL
Susan (susayq) wrote: "If you ladies see me on GR today, tell me to get back to reading LOL"LOL! Deal, if you do the same for me. ☺
Lisa Kay wrote: "Susan (susayq) wrote: "If you ladies see me on GR today, tell me to get back to reading LOL"LOL! Deal, if you do the same for me. ☺"
Sure will! I'm on my way to bring the kids to school right now...so...GO!!!!
LOL! I have to stay on the computer a bit longer. I'm waiting to hear back from Customer Support from Google, as I can't see my inbox for my gmail account.
Ok, I've finished reading Ch. 12 so I'm gonna work on getting the q's up here today soon :)
Susan's Answers to Questions for chapter 1-6 1- How the hell keeping something that is yours and only giving part of it away is generous? I know that’s the way things were at those ages but still I don’t like it. Is it generous? I guess sharing as a rule was not done in those days? LOL
2- How did you like how the mistaken identity part played out? After reading the blurb I was expecting someone to deceive him, but it seemed it was just a simple misunderstanding. I really liked that! He was CLUELESS!
3- I think if I was in Francesca’s place I would have taken offence for a different reason. I’d have felt he is cheating on me with me. How do you feel about that? I would have been upset as well when I realized he didn't know I was his intended. In my opinion, he was cheating. He thought she was someone other than who she really was.
4- I hated the scene she fell of the horse. It’s always like this the heroines are showed weaker by having an accident. I would love to see the guy be the one to have the accident :) I think the purpose of having her fall though was to show that he has feelings for her that he "shouldn't" have been having.
5- I loved how she first found out and then he saw her in church and then he was trying to explain to her what has happened at table , loved that scene
"I didn't mean to suggest you are not a perfectly acceptable bride." Lol That was funny. I liked that they kept teasing each other with touches all through the reception and dancing. Nothing like working each other up ;)
6- I think that Charles will confront him about talking to Franny and the mistake Gyles had made , what do you think? I don't think it will be Charles. I think Francesca will talk to Franni
7- What do you think of Gyles’s mother? A replica of Devil’s mom and aunts? I can see the resemblance. I'm like Kit, I really like the Cynster Dames, so Lady Elizabeth works for me :)
8- It seems that there won’t be any mystery , do you miss it? Not really. I like the romance
I have had a productive day today....laundry, shopping, even mopped the kitchen. And I read through chapter 6. I'll be reading more this evening and tonight. Lauren is cooking YAY!
Susan (susayq) wrote: "I'm so behind! I'm only on chapter 2. After spending the day shopping with the girls (and grandkids), we went to the Christmas parade last night. By the time we got back home it was almost 8 and..."You have grand kids????:D
Really?You don't look like a grand mother!
HAHA I don't feel like a grandmother either :) I was 39 when Ashley had Catherine. I rebelled against the idea of grandmotherhood and they call me Mimi ;)
Lol my mom was all 'I'm too young to be a grandma!' when I told her I was pregnant, and she was almost 46 when he was born. She probably would've had a cow if she became a grandma at 39! :DQ's are coming, honest! I gotta do dinner and stuff, and then I should be able to get back on and get 'em up.
My mom was 39 too when my niece was born and my niece calls both her parents and mine , mom and dad!! She is 23 now .
Kit★ wrote: "Q's are coming, honest! I gotta do dinner and stuff, and then I should be able to get back on and get 'em up. "It's OK , I'm kind of stuck at 90% !
We're Mimi and PopPop. My daughter Harley, age 12, suggested Mimi and PeePee ;) Hubs didn't like it ROFL
Kit★ wrote: "Q's are coming, honest! I gotta do dinner and stuff, and then I should be able to get back on and get 'em up. "
That's fine! It will give me a chance to catch up ;)
Susan (susayq) wrote: "We're Mimi and PopPop. My daughter Harley, age 12, suggested Mimi and PeePee ;) Hubs didn't like it ROFL"ROFL I wouldn't have liked it either :)))
Lmao when I was little my grandpa was PopPop until I was about 4, and then one day, I was all, 'PopPop, PopPop! PopPop! Pop-pa-pop-pop-pop' like I always did, and he said "PopPop's not here anymore, he changed his name." And I had to call him grandpa ever after lol. My grandma says I cried about it. So when my kid was born I teased my grandpa that I was gonna teach him to call him PopPop just to annoy him.
Kit★'s Questions for Ch. 7-12~ Ok, so they have the 'discussion' about his mistake, and she's all mad, and then he touches her and she's all melting for him, super-easy, and the consummate the marriage with utmost pleasure. Was it just me or do you think she should have tried a little harder to resist him, to hold onto her irritation?
~ The sex scene! She's acting all experienced and he asks her where she learned her moves, and she tells him she used to watch her parents having sex when she was growing up, and on multiple occasions!! Totally gross! Do you agree? Or do you think, like Francesca does, that it's perfectly natural, and their loving relationship was a good example for her?
~ Sigh... He seems to be falling for her way too easily in light of his determination! Do you think it's a good thing that he's gone all soft on the inside so soon?
~ Were you disappointed when it turned out that he's going to keep his feelings for her all hidden, and still insist on the marriage of convenience? I kinda had to roll my eyes at that, can it get any more predictable?
~ Of course all the servants fall for Francesca too, even the ones that Chillingworth and his mother have had trouble with for years. Too easy? Or is it a good way of showing how nice Francesca is, and how well-suited she is to the role of countess?
~ What do you think of the neighbors, the Gilmartins? Do you think Lancelot is going to cause a problem for Francesca, or is he just an annoying but unimportant side-character?
~ In Ch. 11, he's thinking about how lucky he is to have such a great relationship with her where it's not just sex but sex with feelings, and then he goes and pushes her away and refuses to spend any time with her outside the bedroom, and the required meals. Yet she still falls into his arms and gives him all kinds of passion when he deigns to give her some of his time. Did this irk you? If it were me, I'd let him in to do his duty, and only because it was required, but I think I'd be laying there like a dead fish until he finished, no way I'd be all blaze of passion for him if he's treating me like nothing but some kind of important, titled servant outside the bedroom.
~ More sex. Geez. I'm all for hot sex, and I still like Gyles despite his ass-ish-ness here in these chapters, but I'm finding myself skimming through all these 12 pg long neon-purple-prose scenes. What about you? Do you think it's good and hot, or are you hurrying through to get back to the story?
~ Franni's coming to visit, how do you think it's going to turn out? Is she going to be all crazy?
answers for Kit★'s Questions for Ch. 7-12~ she should have been stronger and kept her anger. at least let him wait for a week .that was too easy.
~Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww gross ughhh! that's all I thought. were her parent stupid to leave the door open?! ewwww
~nope almost everything was predictable .
~I was reading that part and though we have his mother in that position , she's been handling the household for years , how is it possible that an inexperienced girl who'd never had her own household can manage everything better than her?!
~not going to say anything about this , I've finished the book!
~that's exactly the problem I had with this book .there is no logical connection between how they feel toward each other ,how they act toward each other and what happens in their bedroom!If it was me I would have handed him his manhood in a platter if he tried to do anything while I was angry at him :D
~too much sex , I skimmed over all the sex scene except the first 2 or 3 .
I think if the sex scenes were less purple, I'd be reading them more thoroughly. But there's only so much poetic, metaphorical, glittery, glowing, floating, ephemeral, and etc. descriptions that I can take before it gets boring. Like, skip the poetry and fancy words and get to the dang smut already. *Pounding fists on the table* I want smut! Lol :)
Kit★ wrote: "I think if the sex scenes were less purple, I'd be reading them more thoroughly. But there's only so much poetic, metaphorical, glittery, glowing, floating, ephemeral, and etc. descriptions that I ..."Yep totally with you on that! I don't understand phrases like "she gave him all she had " and stuff like poetic, metaphorical, glittery, glowing, floating, ephemeral as you said.
but smut ? yesssssssssssss
*wanders in* Did somebody say smut?
Yes we're tired of purple prosey we need snuty smut .Do you know of any smuty shape shifterboo todo a buddy read?
I'm on chapter 10 and I've managed to wrangle myself into working today...teaching 2nd grade. I'll catch up and answer questions this evening and I'll do the next set of questions :)
CaroB wrote: "*wanders in* Did somebody say smut?"
**snortsnort** CaroB!
Lisa Kay wrote: "CaroB wrote: "*wanders in* Did somebody say smut?"
**snortsnort** CaroB!"
:-p
I'm job hunting at the moment when I want to be reading, not writing up cover letters. Being cheeky on goodreads is my reward :-)
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All About Passion, by Stephanie Laurens #7 in the Cynster series.
New York Times bestselling Australian author Stephanie Laurens delivers the latest tale in the immensely popular Cynster series. When Chillington is elected an ′honorary Cynster′ at the end of All About Love, he knows he needs a wife, and an heir. His goal; a simple marriage without romance. He agrees to marry a woman he believes to be pliant and quiet. Unfortunately for him, the woman he thinks is Francesca Rawling is really her cousin, Franni.Francesca herself is proud, passionate and opinionated in short, the perfect bride for a Cynster...
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