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A Lady By Chance (Precious Gem Historical Romance #63) (2000)

by Cheryl Bolen(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0821768913 (ISBN13: 9780821768914)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Gem Historicals

review 1: This book started in a very interesting way. It was about Anna the bastard daughter of a French emigre and an English aristocrat. Her mother wants her to be brought up like other English misses. But Anna's father's family refuses and the mother-daughter stay as outcasts till the mothers death.Anna is then offered a chance to take revenge on her father's family. This - by cheating at cards and getting married into the family because she believes the hero to be traitor. What is the point of exposing someones activities - when he is her husband, and a wife's word will not be taken in court, and she will remain his wife - after he is declared a traitor (thus tainting herself AND her future children)? No matter...Netx Anna forces her husband - the Marquis of Haverstock - to co... morensummate the marriage so that it cannot be annulled at a later date.After all this deception and inherent suspicion, neither the hero or heroine keep appreciating one another! The heroine abandons all attempts to seduce the truth of her husband's traitorous activities and coolly sets off with his sisters to buy them new clothes. Such behavior really challenges your credulity.The prose is really poor with a lot of cliche'd phrases like "petal soft skin".I marked this book as Read but I couldn't get beyond 50 pages or so and am not likely to continue.
review 2: I did not realize this was a Regency romance book. Ugh. I used to read these when I was younger and believed in all these fantasies. Our story is about an 18 year old who was born on the wrong ide of the blanket. Her mother was a gambler and whore and had a bad reputation but a lot of money. She raised Anna to be a "lady". Through manipulation and chance,Anna marries a man she just met and becomes a Marchioness. The story is so predictable and there's some steamy sex but what makes this book sad is the fact it's just like all the other hundreds of romance books I read years ago. Nothing new and too much fantasy ring true. less

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