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Son Bir Şans Daha (2013)

by Samantha Grace(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Aspendos Yayıncılık

series

Beau Monde

review 1: It is a rather dull book and half of it was very, very boring. It's a wonder I finished it. The hero seems to have 2 different personalities. The first one is proper, boring, uptight and his view about sex is the same a young naive woman might had in that period of time. But later he becomes an experienced lover over a night and actually shows his feelings and some kind of activity. My feeling for Amelia are similar to the ones someone might have for a person he just met and does not like him.He is grateful he won't have to see him again.I feel the same for Amelia. I did not liked her and I dont want to see her again. The book is close to awful and boring but some tiny parts saved it
review 2: It's probably not fair of me to give this just two stars. It's more ... moremy bias than bad writing or a bad story. I'm more into books that have a lot of action and danger with romance tossed in rather than hand-wringing over feelings, but this one did keep me turning pages despite all that. And the title is great. The titular character, Amelia, is a widow who has always had a "thang" for Mr. Jake Hillary. (I always like it when the hero is NOT a titled man. If you get your history from romance novels you must believe that half of the men in bloody England are at least viscounts.) She loved him even before she accepted the marriage proposal of his best friend, David Audley (who was titled, unfortunately). Jake has always loved her back. Unfortunately he has the spine of an eel, and never got up the nerve to tell her what he felt, so off she went to marry a guy she thought DID love her. Much she knew. Now she's widowed, and Jake is still cringing from an argument they had where he gave her a dressing down. I may have skipped over the explanation for that--never did figure out why he dredged up the backbone to call her out when he never had the huevos to tell her he cared. Maybe it was in the first book in the series, which I haven't read.So anyway, they're avoiding each other, even while sneaking secret, longing looks that everyone else sees and mentions for quite a few pages. Another "complication" is that Jake doesn't like Bibi, Amelia's man-hating and light-skirted best friend. So that keeps them at odds for a few more pages. It's actually the secondary story about scandalous Bibi and some of the men in her life, along with a really nice little twist in Amelia's story, that make the book a reasonably good read. As for the writing, Grace is particularly skilled at dialogue--I was impressed from the very first scene, two brothers bickering, which sounded very much like a lot of people I actually know. The characterization is well-done also, and she does a good job with the history, for example, she neatly sidesteps the cliche shipboard wedding, which is quite historically inaccurate but I've seen it a dozen times. She also gives us a painfully honest insight into how people of that era--even the women themselves--viewed what we'd now call "date rape."So there--I've talked myself into three stars for this. If you like romance-only romances, you'll probably enjoy this. less

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