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Summary: disappointment
Review: Fortunately, I bought this book at a discount. I had read the reviews but couldn't believe it was all that bad. It was. Scenes that normally would have inspired Ms. Woodiwiss to elaborate on were casually dismissed in 5 sentences. Plots to new events were explained later on, as an afterthought. At first I thought it was due to the translator that I got discouraged (English -> Dutch) who pleasantly mixed up names and family lines (throughout the book, Adriana was called Samantha or Felicity and Colton was involved in a small bout of multiple personality disorder when he was Roger or Riordan at one time or another) but I must agree with most reviewers. Do not buy this book! If you like Ms Woodiwiss' books, reread any book you have of her. It will keep you satisfied till something better comes along.... Although I do doubt I will buy any book of Ms Woodiwiss any time soon.
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Summary: Like swimming through mud....
Review: Trying to read this book was like trying to swim through mud for me. Ms. Woodiwiss's prose has always been a challenge - in Shanna for instance, "Shanna presented her back," got on my nerves after reading this statement over and over and over again but in The Reluctant Suitor I barely got past the first 100 pages without being sickened of the words "orbs," "brows," and my favorite one to hate, "the beauty." I could swear that someone else wrote this stuff. It is hard to believe that someone would desert his family for 16 years over a disagreement over a 6 year old girl. If Colton could be such a hero in battle, surely he could confront his father on the issue of his betrothal to Adriana rather than run away. Colton isn't very impressive. He is attracted to Adriana initially only because of her looks - he has the usual women in his past too, actresses, widows, camp followers. Yuck. Ms. Woodiwiss has never been my favorite author but her first books were much better than this one. I believe I have purchased my last book by this author.
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Summary: more fun reading the reviews than the book
Review: When I saw this at the library I couldn't believe
I had missed the latest. Not that it mattered! The previous reviews here are so funny and true.
This book is awful. I didn't finish it and
It made me downright mad! How could this author have written Ashes in the Wind? A Rose in Winter? My personal favorites, but I love Shanna and The Flame and the Flower and The Wolf and the Dove. I will probably still try to read any more that come out in hopes that the grandeur will appear again but really, WHAT has happened to her?
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