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Lord Ash à Tout Prix (2000)

by Sally MacKenzie(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

2811213449 (ISBN13: 9782811213442)

languge

English

genre

Romance

series

Duchess of Love

review 1: LOVING LORD ASH has vibrant, spirited characters who leap off the page to come to life. The book is filled with MacKenzie's trademark humor and wit.After their wedding eight years before, Lord Ash takes Jess to his country home and leaves her there, refusing to see her. Why? He witnessed her in a truly damning situation the day he proposed. Yet he loves her deeply, and the pain of that is what keeps him away. Finally, he needs an heir and returns to the country home to advise her of the divorce proceedings. And the fireworks begin.Jess is a free-spirited artist who has surrounded herself with a most unusual set of servants. When Ash walks in on yet another apparently compromising scene, he nearly stomps right back out again. But his reappearance has reminded Jess of just h... moreow much she loves him. So she persuades him to give their marriage another try.The brilliance of this book lies in MacKenzie's profound understanding of how important trust is to an intimate relationship. Once trust has been destroyed, rebuilding it is a slow, difficult process. Jess and Ash have to resolve eight long years of distrust. Watching them do it is heartwarming and gut-wrenching. It's a wonderful journey to take with them.And there's a fabulous big, black dog named Fluff, who wiggles his way into everyone's heart.I highly recommend this book! It's a fabulous read.
review 2: I received this ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This is book 3 in the Duchess of Love series.I haven’t read the first two books or the novella for the series, but as they’re all standalones, I feel like that’s alright. There was enough explanation of the characters to know who everyone was. The gist: Jess and Kit are Lady and Lord Ashton. Kit is the future Duke of Greycliffe and Jess is the daughter of the Greycliffe head groom. They grew up together and were the very best of friends. They both desperately loved each other, but as is the case in these types of stories, they never confessed or acted on those feelings. When Kit caught Jess in a rather compromising position, he asked for her hand in marriage. Having believed that she’d had relations with the neighbor, he sent her away immediately after the wedding in order to see if she was pregnant. One thing led to another and Kit never returned to the manor house after depositing Jess there. For eight years these two lived separate but desperately lonely existences. Now Kit is feeling a lot of pressure to produce an heir. He goes to the manor to talk to Jess about reconciling their differences. In the meantime, some serious assholes have been responsible for aiding in the desolation of Kit and Jess. Rumors abound about both Kit and Jess having numerous sexual partners. They are both virgins in actuality and they both believe all the rumors about the other and since they’re desperately in love with each other, they’re both totally heartbroken with the belief that the other has a revolving bedroom door. They agree to work through their differences although their pride and animosity prevent them from listening to the other and seeing the truth right in front of their faces. All works out in the end and they are FINALLY able to have their happy ever after. So I REALLY liked this story! I fell in love with both Kit and Jess right off the bat. I could literally FEEL the despair they felt. My gut clenched and my throat tightened and got watery. I LOVE when a book can make my cold, dead heart squeeze a bit like that! It doesn’t happen often. I felt like that character and story development was good and thorough. My biggest complaint would be their reconciliation. After MANY assumptions and hurt feelings, they FINALLY make their way toward communication. I was relieved they were finally going to shut up and listen to each other instead of everyone else, but it was just REALLY abrupt. With as deep as the hurt and hard feelings and everything were, I wouldn’t expect them to resolve all their issues with just a snap of the fingers. But they had to reconcile at some point, so that just me being a tad nit-picky… The only other thing that got on my last word was the CONSTANT use of the phrase ‘Zeus’. It was used like someone would say ‘damn’ or something, but it was ALL THE TIME. It just got annoying. But, again, that’s a really minor complaint. The story was well developed and well written. It evoked my emotions. The protagonists were likeable and the antagonists were absolutely detestable. I was fully involved in the story and didn’t want to put it down. less

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