Windham (22 books in series)
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review 1: No matter how much I may take exception to a certain inconsistency about details in Burrowes' novels, or how much scandal is really going to stick and damage a ducal family, she does her research homework when she gives a character a skill or talent that is central to who they ar...
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review 1: I love the Windhams a lot and have mostly enjoyed each siblings' love story. Once again, we get Burrowes' favorite trifecta--children, scents/smells and secrets--that has become her signature.Up to the half way point, I was enjoying the romance between Joseph and Louisa because i...
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review 1: It is so difficult to pick a favorite of Grace Burrowes books because they are all so good but this one is high on my list. By now her books should be repetitive as I'm been on a mission to read them all. But no, this one was special. Louisa and her hero, Sir Joseph, each have s...
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review 1: The Virtuoso features the youngest Windham son, Valentine. As the third in the series, the applied formula always becomes incredibly obvious and unfortunately, every seam was in view and rather threadbare. In this series--and Burrowes isn't the only one to do this--each series ha...
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review 1: This is the first story of the Windham sisters (there are 5). Lady Sophie has always been the good girl, the one her parents can rely on and don't have to worry about. She likes her quiet life but wishes for a man to love and to be loved in return.Enters Vim.After a chance enco...
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review 1: 1,5Não sei bem mais o que dizer deste livro, não senti empatia com a história, nem com as personagens, nem com a escrita. Tendo já lido imensos romances histórico é impossível não fazer comparações entre autoras e livros deste género e a conclusão a que chego é que Grace Burrowes...
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review 1: An abandoned baby, a generous Good Samaritan woman, and a competent Good Samaritan man snowed in together equal a charming tale about how wishes can come true in unpredictable ways (for the characters, not Romance readers). G.B.'s ability to portray the ups and downs of living in...
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review 1: St. Just is the perfect flawed character. Trying to find peace is proving to be an issue though, especially after having been fighting against old Boney. However, thanks to an Earldom that has recently been given him, he's now on his way to finding that peace. Along with his new ...
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review 1: I have been reading and studying for my class on Women and Religion. This means I have been learning lots of new things, but my brain hasn't done this much work for a long time. After completing my midterm exam, I needed a break. Ms Burrowes provided me with a wonderful change...
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review 1: ***partial spoiler alert***Although it is not the order in which the author released/wrote these tales, I'm glad that I read Maggie's story before I read this one. I preferred reading about a catty b*tchy mother of a duke's bastard (Cecily) first (if at all) then getting some so...
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review 1: Anna Seaton is a great character, full of charm and wit. She's working as a housekeeper, with flowers in every room and marzipan for the Earl of Westhaven. The house hums along like a well-oiled machine. But she's too well-educated for a housekeeper.Gayle Windham, the Earl of Wes...
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review 1: Anna Seaton has been on the run for two years. She wants to confide in her employer, the Earl of Westhaven, a man she has grown to love, but she's been instructed not to trust a soul with her secret. When she receives word that her location has been revealed and the truth starts ...
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review 1: OK I am completely confused. How can this be a first book, when I just read the previous book in which The Earl was a character, and it is even mentioned in this book? I presume we are going to go through the remaining Duke's sons in the next books. But in the previous book, Vic...
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review 1: Frustrating finale to the Windham series. Jenny is a painter, an incredible painter, who's lived unconventionally. She had a tryst with a man at 16, took art lessons, and even sketched a man nude. Elijah is a renowned painter who leaves his family after a fight with his father...
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review 1: Louisa is a bluestocking who is tired of the marriage mart. Sir Joseph is a widower who is looking for a mother to his children. After Louisa is caught in a compromising position, Joseph offers his hand as a solution to the scandal. Of course, their marriage of convenience tur...
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review 1: This book is a MESS!!! It bounced all over the place and suffered from poor plot development as well as random, disconnected sub-plots and bits of info that never quite connected. First they were childhood sweethearts. Then they were going to use eachother as covers from the mama...
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review 1: I've read three of this author's books, and I have a bit of a bone to pick. I think she struggles with setting. I don't mean she can't describe a cottage or grove. I mean I flip a page and start reading a conversation, thinking everyone is still in the spring house or whatever, a...
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review 1: I am reading this all out of order, but I am reading them as I find them. I started with Douglas, which seems to be a different series but with all the same characters. The actual 1st book is "The Heir" and this is the 4th book in the Windham series. There are 10 children all tog...
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review 1: The three stars reflect story pacing issues rather than writing quality, story structure or characterizations. Because Maggie and Ben's relationship is initially adversarial, the deep emotional intimacy between them is delayed for nearly 100 pages. The other element that diluted ...
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review 1: I loved this book. I've been devouring her entire backlist. Somehow, despite the fact that her storylines remain so much the SAME, and the conflicts so predictable, the fairy tale ending always leave me a little teary eyed. The hero- Devlin St. Just- is part of a group of 5 broth...
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review 1: There are parts of this story which I truly enjoyed, it's wittiness being number one. But there were many things which I did not. While generally I liked the heroine, she was efficient (who wouldn't want a housekeeper like that), discreet and loyal. But when it comes to her perso...
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review 1: Lucas Denning is another recurring character in some of the Windham novels, and his flirtation with Eve Windham an ongoing thing. I enjoy Lucas, but for some reason I could not warm up to Eve. I wept for her as a child recovering from devastating physical and emotional injury. Th...