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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
A delightful story (as was Lady Fiasco) but seemed very rushed at the end to tie everything up. I would've liked just a bit more of an organic unfolding to the ending.
I followed up "Lady Fiasco" with this novel, although each could be read separately. The heroine is very nearsighted, something I can identify with. She doesn't consider appearances important for herself, but makes assumptions about others due to preconceived notions. Aunt Honore meddles, as usual, which wreaks havoc with her niece. The characters evolve in the course of the story, which is always nice, but there are also some very funny scenes. Best of all, it's "clean" in that there is no explicit sex and events are consistent with the mores of the time. (Not a trashy novel, if that's what you're looking for.) I look forward to reading the next novel about Aunt Honore's relatives.
Willa is nearly blind, but she knows trouble when she trips over it.
Willa, the vicar’s little sister knows full well that her prospects are bleak. When she accidentally kisses Alexander Braeburn, her dull predictable world turns upside down. Logic dictates that she should stay away from the handsome Corinthian. He’s the black sheep of their village. But how can she resist?
I got Mistaken Kiss for free from Amazon. It's probably one of the best free books I've ever read. I really liked Willa who is practically blind without her glasses and still has a hard time seeing with them on. Willa's brother's best friend Sir Daniel asks her to marry him, out of charity of course since she has no other prospects and her brother is his best friend. Willa is reluctant to agree to this marriage but asks Sir Daniel to kiss her. Only she doesn't realize that she has just asked the wrong man to kiss her. The man she thought was Daniel is in fact his brother Alex. What follows is a delightfully funny story. I especially liked the last chapter. I really liked Willa and Alex and the supporting characters were all good too, although I wanted to slap her brother Jerome for being an insensitive, clueless jerk at times.
This book was just the kind of fluff I needed between my more serious reads. There are companion books to this one and I enjoyed reading those as well, but this one is my favorite of the three. If you like regency romance with some humor you may like this one.
Review also posted at Writings of a Reader
Willa, the vicar’s little sister knows full well that her prospects are bleak. When she accidentally kisses Alexander Braeburn, her dull predictable world turns upside down. Logic dictates that she should stay away from the handsome Corinthian. He’s the black sheep of their village. But how can she resist?
I got Mistaken Kiss for free from Amazon. It's probably one of the best free books I've ever read. I really liked Willa who is practically blind without her glasses and still has a hard time seeing with them on. Willa's brother's best friend Sir Daniel asks her to marry him, out of charity of course since she has no other prospects and her brother is his best friend. Willa is reluctant to agree to this marriage but asks Sir Daniel to kiss her. Only she doesn't realize that she has just asked the wrong man to kiss her. The man she thought was Daniel is in fact his brother Alex. What follows is a delightfully funny story. I especially liked the last chapter. I really liked Willa and Alex and the supporting characters were all good too, although I wanted to slap her brother Jerome for being an insensitive, clueless jerk at times.
This book was just the kind of fluff I needed between my more serious reads. There are companion books to this one and I enjoyed reading those as well, but this one is my favorite of the three. If you like regency romance with some humor you may like this one.
Review also posted at Writings of a Reader
I have issues with this book's subtitle. In no way would I classify this book as a Traditional Regency Romance. It is a Regency Romance but it does not have the depth of a Traditional Regency Romance. I think I would have enjoyed the book more if I had not been expecting a Traditional Regency Romance. Over all I liked the main characters. They are really what kept me reading the book and not just putting it down and abandoning it. This book had more sensuality and more emphasis on physical attraction than I would like.
Content: passionate kissing, innuendo, a few swear words
Source: Kindle Freebie
Content: passionate kissing, innuendo, a few swear words
Source: Kindle Freebie
Humorous
Wonderful story if. But rushed. Aunt Honore strikes again! A few too many in the cast of characters for me to keep up with though.
Wonderful story if. But rushed. Aunt Honore strikes again! A few too many in the cast of characters for me to keep up with though.
This book was pretty cute. I do wish we knew more what the aunt was thinking. She was so weird.
I like this one both more and less than the first. I adored the hero. But my very frivolous suspension of disbelief blinked now and then. That's okay; it's meant to be rather farcical. However, I think that it was a good enough idea and interesting enough characters that it could make for a "deeper" story, and the series conceit slightly harmed its fuller potential. I wanted more, you see, so that's both great and not really great.
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Again, a great trilogy, highly recommended. At first I was thinking wow, this title is lame and it is surely going to lead to some contrived masquerade ball or something we've already seen 900 times.
Nope. Great fun. This series gently throws in some information about the age in terms of medical and scientific advancement and the troubles which plagued people in that time. I really appreciate that - it was nice to get some historical perspective without being force-fed.
Nope. Great fun. This series gently throws in some information about the age in terms of medical and scientific advancement and the troubles which plagued people in that time. I really appreciate that - it was nice to get some historical perspective without being force-fed.
I thoroughly enjoyed the second novel in this series. The characters were engaging, although I didn't like the main characters as much as I liked the main characters in the first novel, though Lady Alameda remained her rascally, interfering self, which I liked. The writing was once again well done, and the characters helped the plot continually move forward.
