Rating: 
Summary: Bad, bad, bad
Review: Can anyone please expain why Raleigh fell in love with the thoroughly unlikeable Jane? There is not a single paragraph in this story in which Jane speaks with even a smidgen of, well, fondness for Raleigh. It is thoroughly unreasonable to expect that the fun, handsome Raleigh would even look twice at someone a) so unattractive and b) more importantly, so nasty. I like Deb Simmons books but this one failed to live up to her previous romances and left the reader feeling very sorry for poor Raleigh.
Rating:
Summary: bad, bad, bad...
Review: I am not sure why anyone would like this book let alone love it. Sure, sometimes it gets old reading regencies about perfect looking people but I think readers are wrong to equate surly and nasty with being interesting because the lady is not beautiful. In fact, for me, Jane's very unattractiveness was compounded by her really bad behavior. There was no way anyone would be attracted to Jane as she is so unkind and nasty. I felt sorry for Raleigh.
Rating:
Summary: Bad, bad, bad
Review: I have read several of Deborah Simmons books have they are ususally very good. This one, however, was awful! Raleigh with is a dandywith a capital "D". While visiting a friend, he, by accident, compromises his friend's sister-in-law, Jane, one of the most humorless, dour, sour, unattractive women in regency history. There is nothing, I repeat, nothing, likable about Jane. Jane so resents her husbands easy going manner and effortless grace and good looks that she, throughout the entire book, is nasty to him at every turn. What, I ask, is romantic about that? Frankly, Raleigh deserved much better than Jane. It defies logic that Raleigh would fall in love with Jane, not because she is that all that attractive, but because of her personality. Yuk.
Rating:
Summary: Awful
Review: I have read several of Deborah Simmons books have they are ususally very good. This one, however, was awful! Raleigh with is a dandywith a capital "D". While visiting a friend, he, by accident, compromises his friend's sister-in-law, Jane, one of the most humorless, dour, sour, unattractive women in regency history. There is nothing, I repeat, nothing, likable about Jane. Jane so resents her husbands easy going manner and effortless grace and good looks that she, throughout the entire book, is nasty to him at every turn. What, I ask, is romantic about that? Frankly, Raleigh deserved much better than Jane. It defies logic that Raleigh would fall in love with Jane, not because she is that all that attractive, but because of her personality. Yuk.
Rating: 
Summary: Lovable a definite keeper
Review: I loved the character Raleigh. He was a dandy but a very funny one. Hiss love for Jane grew over time but you really felt that he truly cared about her as a person. If you love gorgeous young lord's and spinsters this is for you
Rating:
Summary: Lovable a definite keeper
Review: I loved the character Raleigh. He was a dandy but a very funny one. Hiss love for Jane grew over time but you really felt that he truly cared about her as a person. If you love gorgeous young lord's and spinsters this is for you
Rating:
Summary: simply awful
Review: I LUVED this book. The characters were fresh and realistic. Both Jane and Raleigh charmed me for precisely the reason other reviewers have damned them; they're human. They have their faults. I'm sick to death of perfect characters in romance novels! Raleigh and Jane are wonderfully neurotic and the storyline isn't overshadowed by the characters, as is too often the case in this genre. Bravo!
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Summary: My NEW Favorite Book!
Review: I LUVED this book. The characters were fresh and realistic. Both Jane and Raleigh charmed me for precisely the reason other reviewers have damned them; they're human. They have their faults. I'm sick to death of perfect characters in romance novels! Raleigh and Jane are wonderfully neurotic and the storyline isn't overshadowed by the characters, as is too often the case in this genre. Bravo!
Rating:
Summary: simply awful
Review: Poor Raleigh - to be stuck married to Jane the Shrew, well, what did he do to deserve such punishment. It seems those readers who liked this story liked the fact that Jane was an unattractive female and they liked that change from the usual pretty regency miss. Well, sure, okay, she is unattractive but she is even more unattractive on the inside and that is what makes the story so bad. Bad attitude, behavior and general unpleasantness do not, I repeat, do not make for an entertaining story or a great romance.
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Summary: A good premise, but falls far short of the goal
Review: Raleigh is not surprised when he wakes up one morning with a hangover - but he is very surprised when he discovers that he has spent the night with an unattractive virgin in his bed, and now he must marry her since he has compromised her! Raleigh does the honorable thing and marries Jane Trowbridge, the sister-in-law of one of his friends, and takes her with him to his parents' home, and then to the estate he inherited from his late great-uncle. Raleigh is disappointed, however, that he, the match maker of all his friends, is now saddled with a wife who does not love him, nor does he love.Jane Trowbridge, the compromised virgin with an inferiority complex the size of Wales, never thought that she would marry someone like Raleigh. In fact, she wondered if she'd ever marry at all. And now that she was married, she couldn't have married a more unsuitable fellow, in her opinion. Not only was Raleigh from a wealthy family, but he was obsessed with fashion, food, and pleasure - things that Jane found frivilous at best. How could this unlikely pair even grow to LIKE one another, much less fall in love? Okay, I will be quite honest and say that I do not like this book at all. I won't go so far as to say I hate it, because hate is too strong of an emotion, but I was pretty apathetic while reading this book. Raleigh is a bit "fluffy" for my tastes, and I doubt that he has more than one serious bone in his entire body, but I felt very sorry for him to be forced to marry someone like Jane. Jane is absolutely unlikeable. I really tried to see where she was coming from, to have sympathy for her, to understand her motivations, but frankly I have come to the conclusion that Jane is just the most nasty, sour, temperamental, irritable, cruel, unkind shrew known to mankind. From the start of her marriage, she never tried to make things work with Raleigh, although he was doing his best to be kind and considerate of her. I felt so incredibly sorry for Raleigh, to be tied to such an unpleasable woman. Several times, I wish I could just reach out and slap Jane a few times. There is no excuse, no matter how big your inferiority complex is, to treat someone in such a way. I was incredibly concerned for Raleigh's sanity, therefore, when he fell in love with Jane's personality. I do not know what there was in her personality to fall in love with, unless he had a serious desire for emotional harm to come to him. Jane was very rarely kind to him - she was kind to everyone else, it seemed, but her own husband - and I never could understand what he would ever see in her. And quite frankly, both characters had me annoyed with their sniffs and squeaks (Jane) and hums (Raleigh). If Jane sniffed so much, I would think she was coming down with the flu, and if Raleigh hummed constantly around me, I would be more than a little annoyed with him. This book was just bad, and nothing could really salvage it after Jane's high-handedness came into full view. Don't waste your money with this one - there are plenty of better regency novels out there!
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