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How I Met My Countess (2009)

by Elizabeth Boyle(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061783498 (ISBN13: 9780061783494)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Avon

series

Bachelor Chronicles

review 1: To my knowledge, this is my first book by Elizabeth Boyle, and it won't be my last. Lady Stanton, a dowager Marchioness, accidentally runs into the Earl of Clifton just before she gets some news her life is about to change (money, widow's pension, etc.). She knew him 7 years before when she was just plain Lucy Ellison and he was completing his training to leave England to spy in France. They fall in love, but he doesn't come back for her and she has to marry someone else. From this moment in the story through the flashback chapters of 7 years before, this story had me hooked. The interaction of the brothers, Clifton and Malcolm, and the sisters, Lucy and Mariana, is great - just the right mixture of humor, sincerity, and good dialog. Lucy is a great heroine. I wish the boo... morek had gone on like that forever. Then, I had to wonder if Boyle's editor gave her a word limit. Because, WOW that was a fast ending. This is the 6th book in a series, which I didn't know when I picked it up at the thrift store. I didn't have a problem reading it out of order, but I definitely plan to get the others.
review 2: Guh. Oh, man was this one not good.This is one of those "we used to know each other, fell in love a long time ago, he left, and I had a crappy life" stories. But, instead of filling us in on their backstory a little at a time, a huge chunk of this book is a flashback. That drove me NUTS. She could have told us all we needed to know in a couple of paragraphs, not 200 pages.Also, I hate that he called "BETRAYAL!" when he came back from war two years later and found out, after not having sent her any letters or anything (just flowers), that she got married. HOW COULD SHE? You left! Ugh!When we finally make it back to present time, the two main characters don't have a scene together until page 265! WAYYYYYY too late! They have to fall in love again! They have to like each other again! They have to learn to forgive each other again! Two years is a long time to be apart. On pg 325, the Hero finds about about The Boy. THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE. Now, from the summary on the back, I thought the kid would be the impetus for the getting together, but is he? NO. He's barely even a plot point. Honestly, I don't even know why he's in this.And then, as if not knowing the Hero at all, much less liking him, wasn't enough, as soon as he finds out about The Boy, he tries to take him away from the Heroine! WHAT? I get being upset about what he thought the circumstances were, but no. That I cannot forgive.In the present part of the story, the Hero and Heroine had about four scenes together. FOUR. No joke.Also, the "demmed" and "gel" got on my nerves.Skip. Skip hard. less

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