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At Last Comes Love (2009)

by Mary Balogh(Favorite Author)
3.89 of 5 Votes: 2
ISBN
0440244242 (ISBN13: 9780440244240)
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English
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publisher
Dell Publishing Company
series
Huxtable Quintet
review 1: just did not like it really like the first in the series the second was ok and this one just wasn't there. I really love the heroine didn't really like the hero the secret twist in the story line was weird and like didn't really fit with the rest of the stories and it was just like what. took me a really long time to finish it just cuz it was a silly story. also it does bother me that I the author has to have the leading guy cry in every book. (hard copy).
review 2: Meg the eldest Huxtable sister who mothered Stephen and Katherine giving up her own chance at marriage years ago, learns her one time love has returned. Meg promised her father at the age of 17 that she would raise her siblings. Crispen her love left for the army promising to return. He never did
... more, never wrote and she found out that he married. Poor Meg was so hurt and now she hears he has returned with a motherless child and wishes to see her. She is furious and wants him to know she wasn't waiting for him all this time. When they meet again she tells him of a non existing fiance to avoid his pity and arrogance that she will once again love him as if the past was forgotten.She decides quickly to marry a friend who has offered for her several times but learns he is now engaged. Meg bumps into a man who offers her a dance and a marriage. Duncan Earl of Sheringford has just returned to society-desperately seeking a bride. His grandfather has given him 14 days to fulfill a promise made years ago to marry and provide an heir. He needs to find a bride but the fact that he abandoned his fiance at the alter and ran away with her brother's wife is a bit of a deterrant. Scandal has followed Duncan but he needs money to support his illegitimate son that no one knows about. Now that his lady has died( they could never marry because she never got divorced) he needs a mother for his son and a means to provide. His grandfather has suddenly decided to cut him off from funds. Sherry is brutally honest with Meg - they get gossiped about and she considers his offer of marriage with the agreement he will court her for the remaining 13 days. Meg although still gorgeous has reached the age of 30, and has started to realize her opportunities for happiness might only be through nieces and nephews. She shocks everyone by going out and about with Duncan and is warned by everyone to stay away. She admires his honesty and is excited by him. Crispen proves to be a pain and not the man she dreamed he was by spreading word of her betrothal (she was just lying to impress him) and forcing her to give Duncan a chance. Of course Duncan's shame was really a heroic gesture and his vow of silence is broken when he tells Meg the truth. Meg & Duncan marry. They both want to fall in love and work at it with sexual compatibility a bonus. Duncan still has one secret he kept from Meg and that almost destroys their marriage but of course instead it grows stronger. Meg who has given everything for her family deserves happiness and she and Duncan get it despite the rumors, gossip and pressure of society in this book 3 of the Huxtable series. less
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mckenzie
The story starts with two people colliding in a ballroom and the gentleman asking the lady to dance with him and then marry him. At first Margret thinks it a silly joke on his part but agrees dancing with him. Still they end up with half the ton believing they are betrothed.Until one afternoon before that evening Margrets life had been perfectly peacefull. But then she meets her first love, Crispin Dew in Hyde Park and lies to him about her being secretly betrothed because she wants to show him that she does not still grief over him. And she really does want to marry, now that she is thirty years old and all her siblings have grown up. She intends to accept her dear friend, the marquess of Allingham who had asked for her hand three times over the past years. But when she meets him on the ball she discovers that he is already betrothed to another.And then she discovers that the man with whom she had collided and danced was the earl of Sherringford, a rake who five years ago had abandoned his bride on their wedding day to run of with her sister in law. And this man now wants to marry her because his grandfather had sat an ultimatum: Either he be wed before his grandfathers 80th birthday, which happens to be two weeks hence or Sheringford will be left without a penny.But Meg gives him a chance because she cant believe he is really the villain everyone believes him to be and wants to learn his secrets …Margrets story holds many surprises for the reader! At the end I was really not so sure if there would be a happy ending …My favourite character was Sherrys grandfather. He is such a great old cynic! :DThe book was funny to read at times, sad at others. All in all it was a well written novel with intriguing plot! Loved it! :)
devil
A one word review for this book would be "meh". It's not that it was horrible, it wasn't. I mean, it's Mary Balogh, so you know that it's not going to be complete crap. But it was just...how to explain... Okay, I'm not sure if you've ever gone tubing, but if you have this book is like lazy tubing. You just float with the current and meander. It's easy to fall asleep, and it's enjoyable, but there's nothing very earth-shattering about it. That's this book. I would not recommend *against* it, but I wouldn't go out of my way to say "YOU HAVE TO READ THIS!!1!!".
abbychristine
I loved this lady and am glad for her story:):):)
James
3.5*
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