Amanda McCabe wrapped things up for this book. I say this because I hope to see more. I think I would have wanted to be friends with Charlotte, Ms.
McCabe's heroine. She intrigues me the most. So watching her love story unfold was exciting, the way you want a good book to end. The three separate stories mesh so well together it is almost as if one author wrote the book but each individual novella is a fulfilling romantic adventure all on its own. View 1 comment.
Jul 04, Michelle rated it liked it Shelves: romance , regency. For being novellas each story felt pretty well developed and complete. However each story had a sex scene jammed awkwardly into it as if it had to be there. I felt like it ruined the stories considering the time period they were based in. Sep 25, Helen Geng added it. Read Dec 09, Mike rated it really liked it Shelves: format-paperback , novella , regency , anthology , adult-romance , romance , royalty-nobility , historical-fiction.
Three Regency novellas of an illegitimately devil-may-care family Justine and the Nobel Viscount Perhaps the best part of this romantic novella was establishing the wide range of characters within the Fitzmanning Miscellany. The romantic journey of the heroine of the most scandalous birth but the most respectable behavior in the clan and the hero the proper but entirely separated and alienated half-brother to the rest of the brood was sweet and a nice regency escape.
Annalise and the Scandalou Three Regency novellas of an illegitimately devil-may-care family Justine and the Nobel Viscount Perhaps the best part of this romantic novella was establishing the wide range of characters within the Fitzmanning Miscellany. While this is a novella-length story so there isn't time for extended drama at the end , and the author avoids the extended "miscommunication" trope, it still was a much too easy compared to the much more nuanced character and relationship interplay of the rest of the story.
Charlotte and the Wicked Lord The weakest of the three for me, it was still an enjoyable and quick romance that was a nicely diverting read, and rounded out the stories of the three sisters.
Feb 06, Lexie rated it liked it Shelves: review-blog-pr. Of the three authors I was looking forward to Marlowe the best. McCabe and Gaston I know I've read before as well, but not as recently. As a concept I think it was intriguing and full of possibilities. Its also possibly one of the more outlandish premises I've read in any historical novel.
Its a 'Yours, Mine and Ours' set up--Manning had his 2 legal sons by his Of the three authors I was looking forward to Marlowe the best. Its a 'Yours, Mine and Ours' set up--Manning had his 2 legal sons by his legal wife Nicholas and Stephen , and his out of wedlock daughter Justine from a previous liaison , the Duchess has her one legal son by her legal husband Brenner and together Manning and the Duchess had 3 children girls and 1 boy Leo, Annalise and Charlotte.
Of all the children Brenner is the only one not to have grown up as part of the 'Fitzmanning Miscellany' as the group is called. Gaston tackles the story of Brenner, made messenger by his recently departed mother the Duchess having died on her honey moon trip with Manning and his romance with Justine.
Its a rather dry romance, with both being uncertain and afraid for their own reasons, but sweetly responsive to each other. The more interesting tale was of the Fitzmanning brood and how Brenner dealt with them. His stable, steadfast personality is a wonderful thing for the household and all the children had grown up in awe and respect of him even though they never met him.
Marlowe's story about Annalise and Ned, a friend of Nicholas', is far more spirited though still oddly subdued. The title is misleading as Ned is less of a rake and more like a regular young man of the ton.
He doesn't purposely set out to seduce Annalise and is almost resistant because of the secret he harbors. The story takes place roughly a year later, but things haven't changed overmuch with the brood it would seem. McCabe's story is about the youngest, Charlotte and her long time crush Drew. This story rather hot and cold for me. On the one hand I'm always in favor of long time crushes coming to fruition--who doesn't want their first crush to turn out to be their true love?
On the other I think that Charlotte came off less of an ardent admirer and more of a stalker at times. It wasn't any one thing exactly, but she just seemed obsessive in a bad way.
I would have preferred if this had been a series of novels instead of three short stories--this easily could have been 6 books long, one for each kid's romance and it would have given me a better view of each of their individual personalities and traits.
As it stood however the three boys--Nicholas, Stephen and Leo--were almost interchangeable at times. Less so in Marlowe's story, where Stephen is clearly the one who plays the most jokes on his siblings, but the fact remained that the overall premise didn't feel like it ended. Feb 21, Becca rated it really liked it Shelves: novella-or-anthology.
I have been enjoying novellas lately when I am in the mood for a happy endings without a lot of drama or drawn out misunderstandings. This book contained three novellas about a blended family and focused on the stories of the illegitimate daughters. Now, I am a bit skeptical that all three illegitimate daughters would find marriages with highly respectable men, but I didn't think too hard on it so I could enjoy the stories.
I could not finish the first story. The writing style didn't suit me at a I have been enjoying novellas lately when I am in the mood for a happy endings without a lot of drama or drawn out misunderstandings.
The writing style didn't suit me at all and felt very choppy so I was never pulled into the story. I even read the epilogue and still didn't like it. The next story, by Deb Marlowe, was sweet and my favorite of the three. It was about Annalise and Ned who are both artists. I liked how their shared interest tied them together.
It was predictable but a nice read. The last story by Amanda McCabe was also nice. It was about Charlotte and her brothers' friend Drew.
Charlotte had loved Drew for a long time and was always trying to change herself to be what she thought he wanted in a wife when really he just wanted her. Now, I did not buy the line that the brothers were helping to to pair up their friend with their sister I also let that go. Needless to say, I did not think too hard about historical details do I enjoyed the stories. However, they are very predictable and unlikely, so if this bothers you, I wouldn't recommend them.
For me, they were easy afternoon reads. Also, there are a few stories linked to this that tell the stories about the legitimate siblings. I did not look for the first author becuase I didn't care for the writing style, but I did find these other linked stories: Regency Christmas Proposals is a collection of short stories, one by Amanda McCabe that includes the story of Mary Bassington, Drew's sister, a woman widowed too young, and Lord Amesby, both characters introduced in McCabe's story.
Nov 27, Roxie rated it liked it Shelves: bodice-ripper , cheer-me-ups , guilty-pleasure. In my opinion, the value of a romance novel lies pretty much solely in escapism.
By necessity, the majority of romance novel heroines are empty slates, so you the reader can insert yourself into their physically perfect place and be swept off your feet by the Manliest, Most Unreal of Perfect Manly Men sometimes With A Past.
The plot is usually a grab-bag of cliches and overused devices, just a series of inconveniences that you have to sort through to force your breeding pair together becaus In my opinion, the value of a romance novel lies pretty much solely in escapism.
The plot is usually a grab-bag of cliches and overused devices, just a series of inconveniences that you have to sort through to force your breeding pair together because PWP only works in fanfiction, I guess.
All of that is true about this book, a collection of three short stories so very, very short; it annoys me how short each story is about three interchangeable sisters and their incredibly contrived romances. To be honest, I usually skip past Justine I'm not a fan of Brenner and Annalise I find this story unforgivably boring ; it's Charlotte's tale that I read over and over again. I'm not even certain why I keep coming back to her; the plot feels half-baked and incomplete, almost like it was meant to be a full novel on its own but the author ran out of time and so just tacked it into this book half-finished.
Maybe Charlotte and Drew remind me of two of my own characters well, no, they definitely remind me of two of my own characters, minus the angst and a good deal of the personality. Maybe Drew reminds me in a weird way of my first love. Maybe I'm a complete sucker for the "boy falls in love with his friends' little sister" story. Maybe it's an example of "so bad it's good".
I don't know. Either way, the egregiously misnamed Charlotte and the Wicked Lord seriously, I can't think of anyone less wicked than Drew is one of my favorite guilty pleasures.
Historical short stories about three sisters. May 28, JoAnn rated it liked it Shelves: romance. Three enjoyable stories about the three illegitimate daughters of a Duke who had just married the mother of two of the girls and one of his sons before the first story begins.
Also before the first story begins, the Duke and his new Duchess have died of a fever while on their honeymoon in Italy. The book starts with the Duchess' legitimate son from her first marriage that had ended 20 years earlier when she became involved with the Duke, coming to tell his mother's three illegitimate children, hi Three enjoyable stories about the three illegitimate daughters of a Duke who had just married the mother of two of the girls and one of his sons before the first story begins.
The book starts with the Duchess' legitimate son from her first marriage that had ended 20 years earlier when she became involved with the Duke, coming to tell his mother's three illegitimate children, his half-siblings, who he has never met before that their parents have died. He ends up telling the Duke's two legitimate sons and his illegitimate daughter by yet another woman at the same time as they are all living in the same house at the time.
The romances are all well written and satisfying even though they are each only novella length. My favorite part, though, is the way this blended family works together. There are at least two more books in the series and I would like to read them if I run across them, but I will probably not search for them specifically. Feb 19, An Odd1 rated it liked it Shelves: romance. With four brothers, two legitimate, the relaxed loving family undergoes the Prince Regent at a funeral and wedding, a necklace lost then found, betrayal by broadsheet caricatures, and matchmaking a tomboy trying to mature.
I wish the parents could have survived and not the pugs, but adversity is supposed to strengthen. A stern selfish father, a greedy thieving publisher, and teasing siblings are the worst villains, making time we read a holiday in their home, with requisite interludes of passion.
May 08, Roberta rated it liked it Shelves: regency. Actually a little better than I expected from three connected stories by three different authors. The first story felt the most original of the three, probably because it contained most of the complicated background information about who slept with who and begat who. The third story sounded like it was originally intended to be the second story in a different series b Actually a little better than I expected from three connected stories by three different authors.
The third story sounded like it was originally intended to be the second story in a different series because two of the minor characters have a past with each other that predicts a future relationship, neither of which are in this book.
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