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The Admiral's Penniless Bride. Carla Kelly (2012)

by Carla Kelly(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0263892794 (ISBN13: 9780263892796)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mills & Boon

review 1: Thanks to curly_queue, who prompted me to read this novel knowing that I had enjoyed reading Balogh!It is, indeed, a calm, beautifully understated romance between two mature adults, who talk and laugh and plan together before falling in love. In fact, at the very beginning Admiral Bright observes that what he most looks for in a wife is "good conversation", "someone to talk to". Indeed it's a delight to witness Charles and Sally talking together in good cheer: it brough a smile on my lips every time. The theme of finding something to do in peace's time deeply resonates with me, too.Yes, as many other readers have noticed, throwing a glass paperweight at his wife is not very consistent with Bright's previous behaviour (although it's known that the most upright people are al... moreso the most unforgiving), and I'll never understand how someone pregnant can fail to divulge the fact to the child's father. Even if it was largely announced that Sally's secret would have an impact, the book could have made without with the final shenanigans and Bright's degradation. However, the 83% of it is so enjoyable that it makes me forgive that. I will surely check other titles by Carla Kelly.
review 2: A retired Admiral marries a 32 year old destitute widow as a marriage of convenience. Both will achieve certain advantages by their combining for social, cultural, economic purposes. The Admiral has lost a hand in the wars and is seeking freedom from his sisters' barraging to settle and marry. He wants a home he has never had, a base in his homeland, on land, after decades at seas around the globe. She has had great loss- losing a son as a baby beyond her husband's wrongly accused failure and subsequent suicide, and has had 3 very difficult years prior to their meeting, during which she cared for the very elderly as a paid nurse/companion. It's a Regency era with some charm and a few good surprises, like the Admiral's strange estate with the sea view. It's rather too cute for me to enjoy it more than a 3, and the overlooked "truth" that our wife fails to tell? Not of any consequence to this situation and the ending was "off" because of it, I think. Truthfully, marrying someone in this era that you had meet that day at a tea stop/ dining room? More than dicey, it was lucky for her he didn't have a worse case of Napoleonic PTSD. less

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