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Heiress In Love (2011)

by Christina Brooke(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0312534124 (ISBN13: 9780312534127)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

St. Martin's Paperbacks

series

Ministry of Marriage

review 1: the prose was strong enough, but the story was derivative and the characters were stricken with false dilemmas -- problems that ought to be resolvable with fit of honest conversation. so, the rakish hero has a horrible reputation within the ton -- he's all but completely cut by them. over time our heroine comes to see "his true self," accepts his suit, and believes him when he confesses that he's innocent of the social crime the ton accuses him of. but just as they're falling in love, he's accused of an even greater transgression, which he does not deny; he even goes so far as to helpfully fill in some missing details. well, our heroine is devastated at her love's moral failings. but after some soul searching, she decides to maintain their engagement, but this isn't enough... more for our sulky hero. he confesses that, SURPRISE! he's not guilty of THIS charge either, but he throws off his beloved because she should have KNOWN all along that he wasn't guilty. her moment of doubt, even when he himself didn't deny the charge and gave everyone every reason to believe he had intimate understanding of the crime, is enough to damn her in his books, and he throws HER off.these people are just so stupid. i can't even with them. if he's so tetchy about people misjudging him, why does he get a semi by never correcting them when they accuse him of something? dude's a martyr and manipulative asshole. but, naturally, since this is a romance, there must be a happy ever after. to achieve this, the author completely rewrites the heroine's character -- gone is the retiring, dignified lady -- and puts her through some ridiculous, completely historically spurious paces to ensure that her Grand Gesture is just insane enough to convince the sulky hero and the abused readership that the heroine would sacrifice anything (read: her own good standing in the ton) for her man. but what it really proves is that she's stupid and self-loathing enough to debase herself for her man. and, i mean, that MUST be love, right?these fools deserve each other.miss this.
review 2: Lady Jane Roxdale has recently been widowed by Lord Frederick Roxdale. Theirs was a marriage of convenience and an unhappy one. Frederick was a bitter man who treated Jane cruelly both verbally and mentally. Frederick had a ward, Luke, whom Lady Jane loved dearly. Frederick had left Jane a large part of the estate's money with the stipulation that Luke be brought up by the new Lord, not Jane. Enters Lord Constantine Black, the new Lord Roxdale. Frederick had made many foolish decisions regarding the estate which leaves Constantine at odds as to how to keep the estate afloat as he is land rich but money poor. Jane and Constantine consider a marriage of convenience (her second) that would allow Jane to be with Luke and Constantine to have the use of the monies left to Jane to keep up the estate. Their attraction to one another grows as they encounter many problems of running the estate. I enjoyed reading Ms. Brooke's novel. The way she wove the characters, their feelings and the estate "family" was extremely well written. less

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