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A truly lovely story of family that overwhelms the central romance

Someone to Wed by Mary Balogh

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This is the third book in the Westcott series.  I skipped the first and reviewed the second here.  This third book was very good.  The overarching theme throughout the series of family and acceptance was at its peak here, and I loved it.  I always enjoy a series about a close family, but this takes it beyond the nuclear family to aunts/uncles/cousins, and it’s just wonderful to see people treating each other well. Alexander Westcott was happy with his life as a gentleman, but when his cousin, the heir to the Earl of Riverdale, is found to be illegitimate, Alex […]

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4/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

Good enough to finish – bad enough to have forgotten already

Someone to Hold by Mary Balogh

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The premise of the Westcott series (non-spoilers: this is all basically in the cover copy) is that an earl was secretly married and had a daughter, and then he married again and had three more children.  Upon the earl’s death the three presumptive heirs find that they are illegitimate and the orphaned child gets a huge inheritance.  The first book is about that orphan, and she and her new husband make a bunch of appearances in the following books.  I tried to read the first book (Someone to Love) when it came out, but gave up pretty quickly as it […]

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4/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

Slightly Slightly

Slightly Married, Slightly Dangerous (Bedwyn Saga #1,7) by Mary Balogh

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Mary Balogh is a stalwart author in historical romance with whom my experience is very limited. Her Bedwyn Saga appears on NPR’s “Best Romances” list from several summers back, which I am still pretending to tackle in a very time-insensitive fashion. There are a total of six books in the series, and this review is for the first and last of them. If the rest of the books are like the first book, I will probably not read them, but if they’re more like the last one, I’d be more interested. The entire “saga,” in traditional romance series fashion, gives […]

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2/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

A Good Novella from the Ever Reliable Mary Balogh

A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh

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“I don’t think anything inspired me except the necessity of coming up with a story so that I could fulfill my obligation to a contract I had agreed to! I had to dream up a story, and this one popped into my head.” Mary Balogh in the interview following A Matter of Class. Nonetheless, as an experienced, and clearly honest, professional writer, she delivered a sincerely charming  historical romance novella. Reggie and Annabelle are lifelong neighbours divided by a waterway as well as the barriers of class levels in so-called polite society. Their estates may be next to each other […]

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9/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Not an Affair to Remember

The Secret Affair by Mary Balogh

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Born a commoner, Hannah Reid has been Duchess of Dunbarton since she was nineteen years old. Now her husband is dead and, more beautiful than ever at thirty, Hannah has her freedom at last. To the shock of a conventional friend, she announces her intention to take a lover—and not just any lover, but the most dangerous and delicious man in all of upper-class England: Constantine Huxtable. So this book bored me to tears.  I know that Mary Balogh is a beloved author, with a legion of fans, however I don’t get the appeal.  I’ve only read a few of […]

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4/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:33 |

Then Comes *snore*

Then Comes Seduction by Mary Balogh

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Oh my goodness. So it seems Ms. Balogh has at least one a series that leaves me wanted to stab someone in the eye from either boredom or annoyance or the case of this one, both! Katherine is the youngest sister of the Huxtable clan. She is beautiful and proper and new to society. Jasper, Baron Montford, is a man’s man, ladies man, man about town. They meet because Jasper agrees to a wager for fun to seduce Katherine within two weeks. They meet at a party at Vauxhall, and while he could have won his wager, he decides to […]

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1/11/2017 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

First Comes a Solid, if Bland Romance

First Comes Marriage by Mary Balogh

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So in my further exploration into Mary Balogh’s back catalog I started a bunch of her series at once. As they come in at the library I shall give them a try, and keep reading at random. It’s making for a lot of similar stories, but sometimes one just needs a whole lot of happy mindless-ness. This is the start of the Huxtable Quintet. It begins with Elliott, Viscount Lyndgate and heir to a dukedom, arriving in the middle of nowhere searching for the Huxtable family. There he meets 3 sisters and the brother, inheritor of a surprise earldom. Elliott […]

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1/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

Slightly Serious, but Still O So Good

Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh

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As a Christmas Book Exchange gift from my Romance Twin, Mrs. Julien, sent me this one. I knew it would be read quickly. It’s the last in the Bedwyn Saga by Mary Balogh, but I don’t think I was really missing out having not read the previous entries. And I plan to get to them at some point in this coming year. But for now it was the perfect little read over the holidays with a serious, eldest sibling hero and the spirited heroine who draws him out of his shell. My favorite! Wulfric, Duke of Bewcastle, is the eldest […]

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1/3/2017 's CBR9 Review No:3 |


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