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An Excellent Wife?
Wanted: a wife of convenience
James had never been in love. He intended to marry a woman who didn't make demands, or wouldn't change his life. So why did he find Patience Kirby so attractive?
She certainly wasn't his idea of marriage material! For one thing, she was a sparky redhead, while he'd always preferred cool blondes. For another, he was used to a peaceful, elegant lifestyle, and Patience's home was full of kids, old people and animals; noise, warmth and caring....
But in order to have her in his bed, did James have to make Patience his wife?
James had never been in love. He intended to marry a woman who didn't make demands, or wouldn't change his life. So why did he find Patience Kirby so attractive?
She certainly wasn't his idea of marriage material! For one thing, she was a sparky redhead, while he'd always preferred cool blondes. For another, he was used to a peaceful, elegant lifestyle, and Patience's home was full of kids, old people and animals; noise, warmth and caring....
But in order to have her in his bed, did James have to make Patience his wife?
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Charlotte Lamb
261 books316 followersSheila Ann Mary Coates Holland
aka Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf, Laura Hardy
Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter. A voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. She was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Known for her swiftness as well as for her skill in writing, Sheila typically wrote a minimum of two thousand words per day, working from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. While she once finished a full-length novel in four days, she herself pegged her average speed at two weeks to complete a full novel. Since 1977, Sheila had been living on the Isle of Man as a tax exile with her husband and four of their five children: Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Sheila passed away on October 8, 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Island. She is greatly missed by her many fans, and by the romance writing community.
aka Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf, Laura Hardy
Sheila Ann Mary Coates was born on 1937 in Essex, England, just before the Second World War in the East End of London. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E's enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. She later worked as a secretary for the BBC. While there, she met and married Richard Holland, a political reporter. A voracious reader of romance novels, she began writing at her husband's suggestion. She wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot! In between raising her five children (including a set of twins), Charlotte wrote several more novels. She used both her married and maiden names, Sheila Holland and Sheila Coates, before her first novel as Charlotte Lamb, Follow a Stranger, was published by Mills & Boon in 1973. She also used the pennames: Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. Sheila was a true revolutionary in the field of romance writing. One of the first writers to explore the boundaries of sexual desire, her novels often reflected the forefront of the "sexual revolution" of the 1970s. Her books touched on then-taboo subjects such as child abuse and rape, and she created sexually confident - even dominant - heroines. She was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. A prolific author, Sheila penned more than 160 novels, most of them for Mills & Boon. Known for her swiftness as well as for her skill in writing, Sheila typically wrote a minimum of two thousand words per day, working from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. While she once finished a full-length novel in four days, she herself pegged her average speed at two weeks to complete a full novel. Since 1977, Sheila had been living on the Isle of Man as a tax exile with her husband and four of their five children: Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Sheila passed away on October 8, 2000 in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Island. She is greatly missed by her many fans, and by the romance writing community.
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July 31, 2017
Awww this is just the fluffiest story, told entirely from our emotionally buttoned down hero's POV. There are other great reviews so I won't go into the plot details.
The writing is exquisite. The dialogue snappy. The hero's unspoken longings and fears are so well-done. He could have come across as a whiny man baby, but CL rounds him out nicely. His poor secretaries, though! I hope they all get raises!
I loved the heroine's determination and how she wore her heart on her sleeve.
I wish there had been more between the hero and his mother and less time spent on the OW. She wasn't remotely interesting.
Lots of food porn for those keeping track. A partial list from memory:
Melon
avocado
salmon
rocket salad (served at least three times) sometimes with cucumber
spotted dick
spaghetti
plums
custard
Sunday roast with Yorkshire pudding and 3 veg
pears with balsamic vinaigrette and walnuts
scotch eggs
hot buttered crumpets and muffins
marzipan
birthday cake
cheese and spinach souffle
Chocolate mouse
They drank a lot as well:
Mineral water
rough red wine
cold white wine
scotch
gin and tonics
brandy
tea
coffee
Whew! Who knew CL could give me so many ideas for dinner?
The writing is exquisite. The dialogue snappy. The hero's unspoken longings and fears are so well-done. He could have come across as a whiny man baby, but CL rounds him out nicely. His poor secretaries, though! I hope they all get raises!
I loved the heroine's determination and how she wore her heart on her sleeve.
I wish there had been more between the hero and his mother and less time spent on the OW. She wasn't remotely interesting.
Lots of food porn for those keeping track. A partial list from memory:
Melon
avocado
salmon
rocket salad (served at least three times) sometimes with cucumber
spotted dick
spaghetti
plums
custard
Sunday roast with Yorkshire pudding and 3 veg
pears with balsamic vinaigrette and walnuts
scotch eggs
hot buttered crumpets and muffins
marzipan
birthday cake
cheese and spinach souffle
Chocolate mouse
They drank a lot as well:
Mineral water
rough red wine
cold white wine
scotch
gin and tonics
brandy
tea
coffee
Whew! Who knew CL could give me so many ideas for dinner?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 9, 2019
Re An Excellent Wife? - Charlotte Lamb kicks off a very short HP mini-series called Man Talk.
There are actually eight books in this series, four set in HPlandia of 1998 and four that are published in the Silhouette Desire line - (the Silhouette HP equivalent)- six years later in 2004.
The tag line for then entire series is "There are two sides to every story - now it is his turn." is true to it's statement. All of the HP books are written entirely from the Hero's POV - there is no or very limited third person heroine POV.
This series makes for a really interesting read, as vintage HP authors, who are accustomed to only writing from the heroine's perspective, turn that around and write entirely about the H's side of things.
Another interesting aspect of this book is that Charlotte Lamb - the HP doyenne of all things Uber Alpha Manly Domineering Male- revisits the tropes of one of her little known, but most beloved books ever, her published under a pseudonym tale called Sweet Compulsion and written as Victoria Woolf.
CL doesn't revisit Compulsion's plot entirely, but she does throw in a big house with a lovely garden, several extended family member secondary characters and an Alpha Male who gets steamrolled by the wallop of the HP Lurve Force Mojo when he meets his completely-different-from-any-other-woman-in-all-the-best-ways heroine and falls head over heels into love.
Even better, Compulsion's story is written with the heroine's pov at the forefront of the storytelling. In An Excellent Wife, the striking of the coup de foudre at the hero's heart and his coming to terms with it is the foundation of the story.
James is our H in this one and poor James has had a really tough life. His mum ran off with another man and left him behind when he was ten, his father was a Icy Cold Routine Driven Martinet and his only comfort was the couple who served as senior staff in his father's luxurious historically listed home.
James' father had exacting specifications as to the behavior and mannerisms of his heir apparent and future head of the families international finance consortium, but no time to soothe the fears or encourage the affections of a very confused young boy.
CL's descriptions of James' formative years are heartbreaking with their sterile coldness and his father's fierce demands for James's subjugation to emotionless routine.
James had the normal amount of childhood fears growing up, the sounds from the London Zoo scared him because the animals might escape and eat him, he wasn't allowed to play or have hidden garden hideaways because the grounds might get messed up and at NO time whatsoever was he to be anything other than the dutiful son, seen but not heard and rigorous in following whatever dictates his cold hearted, emotionally abusive father demanded.
But James' father did not win entirely. James remembers bits of nice mothering and more importantly, his father's housekeeper did her best to be loving and kind, along with her husband. The elderly couple are much more James' parents than his own biological ones were and James often thinks of that as he goes about his daily life.
James has a sort of girlfriend too, (tho he is by no means a lady buffet sampler and never sleeps with either his girlfriend or the h during the course of the book.)
Fiona, the girlfriend, is straight off of the duly approved female-who-displays-appropriate-traits list that the H's now fortunately deceased father tried to instill since James was old enough to recognize that girls are a different gender.
Fiona is the epitome of class, breeding, sophistication and all things elegantly blonde and beautiful. The fact that Fiona is about as warm as an iceberg in the North Atlantic doesn't really seem to impact James and his sterile routine too much, until he meets Patience, who has three little siblings and runs a rooming house for elderly people.
James is quite irritated with Fiona for eating cheese and getting a migraine and cancelling dinner, as well as his secretarial staff for abandoning the phones for a goodbye party at the office, when Patience comes storming in to his office, grabs his feet and demands that James come to her house to see his mother.
James has no happy feelings about his mother, who has been missing for twenty five years after she left with another man and took off, so he has his security team throw Patience out. Much to the disapproval of his staff.
James doesn't care tho, his mother eloped, divorced his father and never bothered to contact James again, so she is pretty much dead to him.
However, Patience, who is a red haired pixie of a fireball lady, manages to corner him in his car after work. After James' Daimler nearly runs her over when her sleeve gets caught in the electric window, James ends up driving Patience home and meeting her large extended family of two little brothers, one little sister, numerous dogs and pets and four or five elderly people who board with Patience, as well as his ill, but anxious-to-reconnect mother.
James' heart begins to soften as he interacts with all the people, completely melting when six year old Emily takes James around the garden and encourages him to hide out in their seekrit dens. James also feels an uncharacteristic flash of jealousy when a young man shows up, clearly having designs upon Patience and James wants to go all cavemen alpha H on him.
The meeting with James' estranged mother doesn't get off to a rollicking start. James is very hurt by being abandoned and his mother doesn't really have a good excuse for her actions, except that his father was a very cold and impersonal man and that the two of them were a very bad match.
Still, Patience asks James to come for his mother and Patience's joint birthday party. James decides to attend and he brings presents for his mother and Patience- Guerlain's Champs-Elysées perfume, a lovely Hermès scarf for Patience and his mother and an impulse buy of three birds for Emily and her brothers.
Patience's scarf is in pink and she is delighted, because no one every buys her pink as her hair is red. Things go along great at the party, with a veritable orgy of food porn and children's games, until Patience has another go at James for not being warmer to his ill and hopeful mother.
James is willing to concede an allowance and financial support, but his mother did leave him to be abused with a man she couldn't live with herself and he is still feeling put out about that. On the other hand, Patience and her brood fascinate him and he can't help but fantasize how the pink of Patience's new scarf matches the pink of her lips.
Even a date with Fiona doesn't really move him. She thinks she can get away with an in-depth interrogation of his movements when she isn't around and since they don't sleep together, James feels she is imposing too much. James is irritable around everybody, cause infrequent dates with Fiona are becoming annoying and his thoughts are lingering way too long on Patience.
James is also beginning to realize that these new emotions boiling in his heart are very much the emotions of caring and love. So when Patience shows up at his house to tell him his mother is in hospital with a heart attack, James can't help but kiss her.
Fiona walks in on the end of the kiss and she takes herself off in a huff when James has the gestault that it is Patience that he really wants to be with. But he worries that Patience already has a boyfriend and he worries that she will think her 23 to his 35 is too old for her. Plus there is the differences in their lifestyles, but James is gradually gaining confidence that with love, they can work things out.
James unbends enough towards his mother to ask her if she wants to live with him, she refuses and James has to take a little more time to think things thru. It doesn't help when Fiona pops back up again and tries to seduce James with a coldly calculated, passionate kiss that completely creeps James out.
Patience shows up at the end of the James/Fiona kiss and James is frustrated that she rushes off before he can throw Fiona off. We learn that Fiona's father is in trouble for fraud and about to lose everything. This will jeopardize Fiona's cushy lifestyle, so she is going down her list of eligible males to seduce one into marrying her.
(Fiona winds up with one of James' business acquaintances, a fifty year old multiple-divorcee who likes the pay to play lady buffet and it seems Fiona is his perfect type. She went to the guy's house and got the acquaintance to propose after James kicked her out.)
That leaves James having to go make his declaration to Patience at her house. When he gets there, the wanna be young OM is trying it on with Patience and trying to kiss her. James gets mad and punches the young OM in the jaw and Patience tells the guy off too.
Then James does a really nice plea for Patience to be his girl and marry him and finally we learn that Patience has fallen in love with him right back.
James is selling his horrible house to move in with Patience and the family and his devoted staff is either going to move to a retirement cottage in Bournemouth or James and Patience will add on to Patience's house and his devoted adopted family can move in too.
James is going to build his own treehouse hideout in the backyard, where he and Emily and assorted pets can hang out and everyone is happy to welcome James to the whole family for a very cute and fluffy pink sparkly HPlandia HEA.
This story is adorable and funny and OTT in it's pink sparkly fluffiness. CL doesn't get into the lighter side of her craft very often, but when she does, it is always a story to remember. James' evolution from his sterile and routine existence is extremely well done.
Patience's and her family's obvious caring and love allow James' hidden marshmallow tendencies to be fully developed and expressed and CL does it in a believable evolution that is one of HPlandia's best. Because of CL's sheer talent in demonstrating the excellent transformation of an HP H to a loving husband and father, this book is on the required reading HP reading list.
CL does a fantastic job of bringing an emotionless robot man to full and sparkling life. The fact that she does so without any hint of the heroine's pov makes this one a keeper and an HP outing not to be missed.
There are actually eight books in this series, four set in HPlandia of 1998 and four that are published in the Silhouette Desire line - (the Silhouette HP equivalent)- six years later in 2004.
The tag line for then entire series is "There are two sides to every story - now it is his turn." is true to it's statement. All of the HP books are written entirely from the Hero's POV - there is no or very limited third person heroine POV.
This series makes for a really interesting read, as vintage HP authors, who are accustomed to only writing from the heroine's perspective, turn that around and write entirely about the H's side of things.
Another interesting aspect of this book is that Charlotte Lamb - the HP doyenne of all things Uber Alpha Manly Domineering Male- revisits the tropes of one of her little known, but most beloved books ever, her published under a pseudonym tale called Sweet Compulsion and written as Victoria Woolf.
CL doesn't revisit Compulsion's plot entirely, but she does throw in a big house with a lovely garden, several extended family member secondary characters and an Alpha Male who gets steamrolled by the wallop of the HP Lurve Force Mojo when he meets his completely-different-from-any-other-woman-in-all-the-best-ways heroine and falls head over heels into love.
Even better, Compulsion's story is written with the heroine's pov at the forefront of the storytelling. In An Excellent Wife, the striking of the coup de foudre at the hero's heart and his coming to terms with it is the foundation of the story.
James is our H in this one and poor James has had a really tough life. His mum ran off with another man and left him behind when he was ten, his father was a Icy Cold Routine Driven Martinet and his only comfort was the couple who served as senior staff in his father's luxurious historically listed home.
James' father had exacting specifications as to the behavior and mannerisms of his heir apparent and future head of the families international finance consortium, but no time to soothe the fears or encourage the affections of a very confused young boy.
CL's descriptions of James' formative years are heartbreaking with their sterile coldness and his father's fierce demands for James's subjugation to emotionless routine.
James had the normal amount of childhood fears growing up, the sounds from the London Zoo scared him because the animals might escape and eat him, he wasn't allowed to play or have hidden garden hideaways because the grounds might get messed up and at NO time whatsoever was he to be anything other than the dutiful son, seen but not heard and rigorous in following whatever dictates his cold hearted, emotionally abusive father demanded.
But James' father did not win entirely. James remembers bits of nice mothering and more importantly, his father's housekeeper did her best to be loving and kind, along with her husband. The elderly couple are much more James' parents than his own biological ones were and James often thinks of that as he goes about his daily life.
James has a sort of girlfriend too, (tho he is by no means a lady buffet sampler and never sleeps with either his girlfriend or the h during the course of the book.)
Fiona, the girlfriend, is straight off of the duly approved female-who-displays-appropriate-traits list that the H's now fortunately deceased father tried to instill since James was old enough to recognize that girls are a different gender.
Fiona is the epitome of class, breeding, sophistication and all things elegantly blonde and beautiful. The fact that Fiona is about as warm as an iceberg in the North Atlantic doesn't really seem to impact James and his sterile routine too much, until he meets Patience, who has three little siblings and runs a rooming house for elderly people.
James is quite irritated with Fiona for eating cheese and getting a migraine and cancelling dinner, as well as his secretarial staff for abandoning the phones for a goodbye party at the office, when Patience comes storming in to his office, grabs his feet and demands that James come to her house to see his mother.
James has no happy feelings about his mother, who has been missing for twenty five years after she left with another man and took off, so he has his security team throw Patience out. Much to the disapproval of his staff.
James doesn't care tho, his mother eloped, divorced his father and never bothered to contact James again, so she is pretty much dead to him.
However, Patience, who is a red haired pixie of a fireball lady, manages to corner him in his car after work. After James' Daimler nearly runs her over when her sleeve gets caught in the electric window, James ends up driving Patience home and meeting her large extended family of two little brothers, one little sister, numerous dogs and pets and four or five elderly people who board with Patience, as well as his ill, but anxious-to-reconnect mother.
James' heart begins to soften as he interacts with all the people, completely melting when six year old Emily takes James around the garden and encourages him to hide out in their seekrit dens. James also feels an uncharacteristic flash of jealousy when a young man shows up, clearly having designs upon Patience and James wants to go all cavemen alpha H on him.
The meeting with James' estranged mother doesn't get off to a rollicking start. James is very hurt by being abandoned and his mother doesn't really have a good excuse for her actions, except that his father was a very cold and impersonal man and that the two of them were a very bad match.
Still, Patience asks James to come for his mother and Patience's joint birthday party. James decides to attend and he brings presents for his mother and Patience- Guerlain's Champs-Elysées perfume, a lovely Hermès scarf for Patience and his mother and an impulse buy of three birds for Emily and her brothers.
Patience's scarf is in pink and she is delighted, because no one every buys her pink as her hair is red. Things go along great at the party, with a veritable orgy of food porn and children's games, until Patience has another go at James for not being warmer to his ill and hopeful mother.
James is willing to concede an allowance and financial support, but his mother did leave him to be abused with a man she couldn't live with herself and he is still feeling put out about that. On the other hand, Patience and her brood fascinate him and he can't help but fantasize how the pink of Patience's new scarf matches the pink of her lips.
Even a date with Fiona doesn't really move him. She thinks she can get away with an in-depth interrogation of his movements when she isn't around and since they don't sleep together, James feels she is imposing too much. James is irritable around everybody, cause infrequent dates with Fiona are becoming annoying and his thoughts are lingering way too long on Patience.
James is also beginning to realize that these new emotions boiling in his heart are very much the emotions of caring and love. So when Patience shows up at his house to tell him his mother is in hospital with a heart attack, James can't help but kiss her.
Fiona walks in on the end of the kiss and she takes herself off in a huff when James has the gestault that it is Patience that he really wants to be with. But he worries that Patience already has a boyfriend and he worries that she will think her 23 to his 35 is too old for her. Plus there is the differences in their lifestyles, but James is gradually gaining confidence that with love, they can work things out.
James unbends enough towards his mother to ask her if she wants to live with him, she refuses and James has to take a little more time to think things thru. It doesn't help when Fiona pops back up again and tries to seduce James with a coldly calculated, passionate kiss that completely creeps James out.
Patience shows up at the end of the James/Fiona kiss and James is frustrated that she rushes off before he can throw Fiona off. We learn that Fiona's father is in trouble for fraud and about to lose everything. This will jeopardize Fiona's cushy lifestyle, so she is going down her list of eligible males to seduce one into marrying her.
(Fiona winds up with one of James' business acquaintances, a fifty year old multiple-divorcee who likes the pay to play lady buffet and it seems Fiona is his perfect type. She went to the guy's house and got the acquaintance to propose after James kicked her out.)
That leaves James having to go make his declaration to Patience at her house. When he gets there, the wanna be young OM is trying it on with Patience and trying to kiss her. James gets mad and punches the young OM in the jaw and Patience tells the guy off too.
Then James does a really nice plea for Patience to be his girl and marry him and finally we learn that Patience has fallen in love with him right back.
James is selling his horrible house to move in with Patience and the family and his devoted staff is either going to move to a retirement cottage in Bournemouth or James and Patience will add on to Patience's house and his devoted adopted family can move in too.
James is going to build his own treehouse hideout in the backyard, where he and Emily and assorted pets can hang out and everyone is happy to welcome James to the whole family for a very cute and fluffy pink sparkly HPlandia HEA.
This story is adorable and funny and OTT in it's pink sparkly fluffiness. CL doesn't get into the lighter side of her craft very often, but when she does, it is always a story to remember. James' evolution from his sterile and routine existence is extremely well done.
Patience's and her family's obvious caring and love allow James' hidden marshmallow tendencies to be fully developed and expressed and CL does it in a believable evolution that is one of HPlandia's best. Because of CL's sheer talent in demonstrating the excellent transformation of an HP H to a loving husband and father, this book is on the required reading HP reading list.
CL does a fantastic job of bringing an emotionless robot man to full and sparkling life. The fact that she does so without any hint of the heroine's pov makes this one a keeper and an HP outing not to be missed.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 24, 2024
An excellent wife? is the Harlequin version of one of those classic screwball comedies starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. It was charming, goofy, and romantic. I loved it.
James Ormond the Third has been reared since birth to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious merchant banker father and grandfather. His life is routine: office, work lunch, high tea served on the family's antique China, and an occasional date with his icy girlfriend Fiona.
Suddenly a human tornado topped by wild red curls, large hazel eyes, and an enticing pink mouth, who goes by the unlikely name of Patience Kirby, turns James' ordered life upside down.
The book is written entirely in James' point of view and it is a smashing success. Despite his narrow world view and stupid mistakes, brought on by a lifetime of being drilled to hide and dismiss his emotions and to basically just act as an automaton rather than a human being, I completely identified and empathized with him.
I also loved the very well-rounded cast of secondary characters comprised of James's makeshift family of servants and employees as well as Patience's own madcap collection of half-siblings, friends, and boarders.
This book brought on the LoLs and the fuzzies in a very good way so I would wholeheartedly recommend it.
James Ormond the Third has been reared since birth to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious merchant banker father and grandfather. His life is routine: office, work lunch, high tea served on the family's antique China, and an occasional date with his icy girlfriend Fiona.
Suddenly a human tornado topped by wild red curls, large hazel eyes, and an enticing pink mouth, who goes by the unlikely name of Patience Kirby, turns James' ordered life upside down.
The book is written entirely in James' point of view and it is a smashing success. Despite his narrow world view and stupid mistakes, brought on by a lifetime of being drilled to hide and dismiss his emotions and to basically just act as an automaton rather than a human being, I completely identified and empathized with him.
I also loved the very well-rounded cast of secondary characters comprised of James's makeshift family of servants and employees as well as Patience's own madcap collection of half-siblings, friends, and boarders.
This book brought on the LoLs and the fuzzies in a very good way so I would wholeheartedly recommend it.
June 1, 2017
A rare hero's POV, and what a hero.
James, our stuffy stuffed shirt was abandoned by his mother and raised by the cold father that drove her away. He's slowly slipping into his father's life: rude to his employees, an eye to what's proper, and a non-sexual dating relationship with a icy blonde cold stick named Fiona.
A spunky redhead named Patience literally jumps into his life as intermediary for the mother who was dead to him. Not only is Patience raising her pretty adorable plot moppet siblings, but she has taken on what amounts to a surrogate family in elderly renters. She's pretty cute, and ole grumpy, shut down James falls hard and fast.
It's hard to point to what makes this book so charming as the contact between James and Patience is limited. No steamy sex scenes, no ridiculous adventures. What works and makes it so poignant? James opening eyes and inner monologuing fears about turning into his father; his conflicting emotions about seeing his mother after a couple of decades, and his longing to be near and with Patience. He dodges the poor pitiful Heathcliff big fat jerk role as he is really damaged. His mother left him to the cold man that drove him away! Charlotte Lamb, as always, provides details about him as a child that humanize the cold jerk he is now. He can hear sounds of the London zoo from his home and recalls how frightened he was as a child. He thought the animals would hunt him down and eat him.
James falls for Patience and her crazy life but fights it all the way. He bonds with Patience's siblings when they show them their secret den in the garden; Emmy, Patience's younger sister, takes him under her six year old wing and she's pretty adorable.
All in all a winner, but what stops it from being a four star is the abrupt ending and losing sight of some of the secondary characters that made this so much fun. I also had a very difficult time with the concept of the mother that could abandon a child like this. He is the product of his parents, and his mother did double damage by leaving him in the first place and leaving him with a emotionally abusive man.
P.S. On more than one occasion I had to check to make sure I was actually reading a Charlotte Lamb.
James, our stuffy stuffed shirt was abandoned by his mother and raised by the cold father that drove her away. He's slowly slipping into his father's life: rude to his employees, an eye to what's proper, and a non-sexual dating relationship with a icy blonde cold stick named Fiona.
A spunky redhead named Patience literally jumps into his life as intermediary for the mother who was dead to him. Not only is Patience raising her pretty adorable plot moppet siblings, but she has taken on what amounts to a surrogate family in elderly renters. She's pretty cute, and ole grumpy, shut down James falls hard and fast.
It's hard to point to what makes this book so charming as the contact between James and Patience is limited. No steamy sex scenes, no ridiculous adventures. What works and makes it so poignant? James opening eyes and inner monologuing fears about turning into his father; his conflicting emotions about seeing his mother after a couple of decades, and his longing to be near and with Patience. He dodges the poor pitiful Heathcliff big fat jerk role as he is really damaged. His mother left him to the cold man that drove him away! Charlotte Lamb, as always, provides details about him as a child that humanize the cold jerk he is now. He can hear sounds of the London zoo from his home and recalls how frightened he was as a child. He thought the animals would hunt him down and eat him.
James falls for Patience and her crazy life but fights it all the way. He bonds with Patience's siblings when they show them their secret den in the garden; Emmy, Patience's younger sister, takes him under her six year old wing and she's pretty adorable.
All in all a winner, but what stops it from being a four star is the abrupt ending and losing sight of some of the secondary characters that made this so much fun. I also had a very difficult time with the concept of the mother that could abandon a child like this. He is the product of his parents, and his mother did double damage by leaving him in the first place and leaving him with a emotionally abusive man.
P.S. On more than one occasion I had to check to make sure I was actually reading a Charlotte Lamb.
July 29, 2018
Funny and cute story. Hero was clueless when it comes to love. He was also inexperienced and so endearing. He was so in love with the heroine poor guy. Entertaining book.
March 13, 2020
3.75 stars.
The book was quite enjoyable and I liked it more because it was written from the hero's point of view. It was a classic HP romance with the exact amount of comedy and love, very refreshing.
The book was quite enjoyable and I liked it more because it was written from the hero's point of view. It was a classic HP romance with the exact amount of comedy and love, very refreshing.
June 2, 2017
Reading the story from H's POV was different and this H was special it made it all the more lovely.
April 28, 2022
It’s so fun to be in a clueless man mind!
January 3, 2019
When it comes to originality, CL doesn't disappoint and this book is testament to her skills. Told from the H's perspective, this M&B is the romance equivalent of the Christmas Carol. H is Scrooge, a rich and powerful man with very little grasp of feelings and emotions. His ghosts include his mother (aka Ghost of the Christmas Past) a woman he tries to forget and confine to his mental box of bygones. Then there's Fiona (ghost of the Christmas Present), a cool, arctic blonde who values ambition and wealth much like himself without the complications of emotional bonding. And finally you have the h Patience (the Ghost of the future or his future) - rather aptly named I thought- a woman who teaches him how to love and change the way he sees the world or reacts to it.
This was very well done with appropriate amounts of humour, romance, and drama. The H is constantly bewildered by the women around him and for a change it was fun to read about his tumultuous emotions whenever he comes across the h. Definitely worth the four stars for originality if for nothing else.
This was very well done with appropriate amounts of humour, romance, and drama. The H is constantly bewildered by the women around him and for a change it was fun to read about his tumultuous emotions whenever he comes across the h. Definitely worth the four stars for originality if for nothing else.
December 4, 2017
“An Excellent Wife?” Is the story of Patience and James.
James lives his life governed by a strict set of rules. Taking over his father’s business after his death, he now courts a rigid woman and expects to marry her as she is his idea of a proper life.
His scheduled routine is disrupted when the spunky redhead Patience shows up on his doorsteps, claiming to have request from his mother, whom he thought was dead after she abandoned him!
Soon he is forced to see the difference- is his idea of excellent wife completely different from what he had always imagined?
Very rarely do we read an old school romance from a complete male POV and this was a good attempt. It took me time to warm up to James even though he was the primary character- but Patience and her family, especially Emmy was instantly lovable.
I did not like the back and forth between the hero, heroine and OW and he was rather obstinate tbh.
An average read.
Unsafe/ SWE
2.25/5
James lives his life governed by a strict set of rules. Taking over his father’s business after his death, he now courts a rigid woman and expects to marry her as she is his idea of a proper life.
His scheduled routine is disrupted when the spunky redhead Patience shows up on his doorsteps, claiming to have request from his mother, whom he thought was dead after she abandoned him!
Soon he is forced to see the difference- is his idea of excellent wife completely different from what he had always imagined?
Very rarely do we read an old school romance from a complete male POV and this was a good attempt. It took me time to warm up to James even though he was the primary character- but Patience and her family, especially Emmy was instantly lovable.
I did not like the back and forth between the hero, heroine and OW and he was rather obstinate tbh.
An average read.
Unsafe/ SWE
2.25/5
March 4, 2013
More like 3 to 3.5 stars, but rather unique in that it is told entirely from the hero's point of view.
One day, a successful financier is rudely interrupted when a young woman comes barging into his office to explain that his long lost mother is back in town and desperately wants to see him. The young woman runs a boarding home for the elderly and has decided to help one of her boarders by contacting the woman's son. Hero is not too happy to have this red-headed bundle throw herself at him, and he physically calls his security force to have her removed. Seems he resents that is mother has come back after abandoning him to his ruthless father when he was only ten years old. Of course, it's instant attraction with the firecracker heroine even though she is nothing close in the way of his tastes. Seems Mr. Success is quite taken with those long legged, cool blondes.
The story was unique and kept my interest because it was told entirely from the hero's viewpoint. It also was a much lighter touch than is typical Lamb with some laugh out loud moments and some secondary endearing characters. However, I felt the author missed some opportunities to make this story stronger by not providing more interaction and connection with the secondary players and only superficially touching upon the abandonment. Though, in spite of these issues, I did find myself entertained.
If you like Charlotte Lamb, you might want to give this a try. Even if only to experience something very different from her usual approach.
One day, a successful financier is rudely interrupted when a young woman comes barging into his office to explain that his long lost mother is back in town and desperately wants to see him. The young woman runs a boarding home for the elderly and has decided to help one of her boarders by contacting the woman's son. Hero is not too happy to have this red-headed bundle throw herself at him, and he physically calls his security force to have her removed. Seems he resents that is mother has come back after abandoning him to his ruthless father when he was only ten years old. Of course, it's instant attraction with the firecracker heroine even though she is nothing close in the way of his tastes. Seems Mr. Success is quite taken with those long legged, cool blondes.
The story was unique and kept my interest because it was told entirely from the hero's viewpoint. It also was a much lighter touch than is typical Lamb with some laugh out loud moments and some secondary endearing characters. However, I felt the author missed some opportunities to make this story stronger by not providing more interaction and connection with the secondary players and only superficially touching upon the abandonment. Though, in spite of these issues, I did find myself entertained.
If you like Charlotte Lamb, you might want to give this a try. Even if only to experience something very different from her usual approach.
June 12, 2017
I had to check midway through this book to be sure it was indeed Charlotte Lamb who wrote it; she surprises me every now and then with outlier stories but this was still a first! What a happy, charming, silly book!
This story was told entirely from the Hero's perspective. He's supposed to be a cold, austere, emotionless businessman, but we get full-on descriptions of his heart crashing and his mind spinning and the world exploding in dazzling light every time the sweet, clumsy young heroine bumbles into his vicinity. It's adorable! Hilarious too, to see him thinking frantically of how to win her over, desperate to be with her, and spewing out mean nasty word vomit instead. From now on, I'm going to choose to think that all Alpha Heroes are like this inside when they're being cruel to their heroines.
Quick, fun, and will leave you with the warm-fuzzies for sure.
This story was told entirely from the Hero's perspective. He's supposed to be a cold, austere, emotionless businessman, but we get full-on descriptions of his heart crashing and his mind spinning and the world exploding in dazzling light every time the sweet, clumsy young heroine bumbles into his vicinity. It's adorable! Hilarious too, to see him thinking frantically of how to win her over, desperate to be with her, and spewing out mean nasty word vomit instead. From now on, I'm going to choose to think that all Alpha Heroes are like this inside when they're being cruel to their heroines.
Quick, fun, and will leave you with the warm-fuzzies for sure.
June 15, 2022
Our hero is a 12-year-old boy in disguise. He is so confused by emotions that he doesn’t know which end is up. He never figures it out either.
October 11, 2021
Lovely, unusual, entertaining. Hats off to Charlotte Lamb for being so original, versatile and creative. She certainly refuses to follow any paint-by-numbers formula for writing HP.
This is told from the hero's point of view. There is a wry mix of humour, self deprecation and angst and confusion as he breaks out of the mould that he had been stuck in. It's like watching him be reborn and it's actually quite joyous to witness it.
Lovely how he is healed by the love of a good woman. The heroine is a delight. She's warm and loving and kind. We get nothing from her POV but only see what is reflected from his thoughts about her. She's a rockstar. Just love her. If anyone can heal such a damaged man she can. Their HEA was solid.
What an enjoyable read. So refreshing after all the stale offerings from many HPs these days.
This is told from the hero's point of view. There is a wry mix of humour, self deprecation and angst and confusion as he breaks out of the mould that he had been stuck in. It's like watching him be reborn and it's actually quite joyous to witness it.
Lovely how he is healed by the love of a good woman. The heroine is a delight. She's warm and loving and kind. We get nothing from her POV but only see what is reflected from his thoughts about her. She's a rockstar. Just love her. If anyone can heal such a damaged man she can. Their HEA was solid.
What an enjoyable read. So refreshing after all the stale offerings from many HPs these days.
December 3, 2023
I'm gonna say 3.5 stars rounded up for this almost whimsical and often super sweet romance.
The reader follows James and never really get Patience's POV although it's usually easy to guess.
He is a stiff upper crusty brit who runs a bank. He was raised by his austere and humourless father, his mother having run off when he was young.
But now Patience forces her way into his office to ask him to come visit his ailing mother who lives with her. I liked that the mother's running off wasn't vindicated or made to be something his father had forced on her. Yet she was still a nice lady who had made questionable decisions in the past.
James is a pretty stiff and humourless himself at the start of the story and is all set to marry the ice queen Fiona. Somehow though, he hasn't been able to get round to popping the question yet. But after meeting Patience, he finds himself seeking her out and thereby also seeking out his estranged mother.
Patience lives in a big old house with her younger siblings and a few elderly people who rent rooms. The place is full of life and chaos with pets of all sorts and a rambling garden. The complete opposite of James' carefully organized and tidy life.
It's like he falls in love by accident. I liked Patience but wasn't terribly convinced of her attraction to him. Hence, not 5 stars. I thought she was quite cruel a couple times in the things she said to him, even if they were kinda true.
But overall it's a sweet romance that made me smile and feel like I could look out the window on a sunny day (despite the November rains).
Safety is all good.
The reader follows James and never really get Patience's POV although it's usually easy to guess.
He is a stiff upper crusty brit who runs a bank. He was raised by his austere and humourless father, his mother having run off when he was young.
But now Patience forces her way into his office to ask him to come visit his ailing mother who lives with her. I liked that the mother's running off wasn't vindicated or made to be something his father had forced on her. Yet she was still a nice lady who had made questionable decisions in the past.
James is a pretty stiff and humourless himself at the start of the story and is all set to marry the ice queen Fiona. Somehow though, he hasn't been able to get round to popping the question yet. But after meeting Patience, he finds himself seeking her out and thereby also seeking out his estranged mother.
Patience lives in a big old house with her younger siblings and a few elderly people who rent rooms. The place is full of life and chaos with pets of all sorts and a rambling garden. The complete opposite of James' carefully organized and tidy life.
It's like he falls in love by accident. I liked Patience but wasn't terribly convinced of her attraction to him. Hence, not 5 stars. I thought she was quite cruel a couple times in the things she said to him, even if they were kinda true.
But overall it's a sweet romance that made me smile and feel like I could look out the window on a sunny day (despite the November rains).
Safety is all good.
July 26, 2021
Really cute!
February 13, 2019
Charming!
September 11, 2019
3.5 stars
I really enjoyed it.
Told by the H's POV - I guess it is one of the first try to develop a story based on "HIS" thoughts and feelings.
We have a very cold/stern and workaholic H whose life is completely turned upside down by the spitfire (and much younger) heroine.
Her life is chaotic but full of love and affection: despite her young age she is the head of family and also cares for some old and alone in the world people.
The hero fights incessantly not to fall for her and it is really cute reading all the new feelings that develop into his heart causing confusion and bewilderment.
We also have an undeniable attraction between H and h with a couple of steamy scenes and a nasty "OW" that causes some trouble.
A really good pastime.
I really enjoyed it.
Told by the H's POV - I guess it is one of the first try to develop a story based on "HIS" thoughts and feelings.
We have a very cold/stern and workaholic H whose life is completely turned upside down by the spitfire (and much younger) heroine.
Her life is chaotic but full of love and affection: despite her young age she is the head of family and also cares for some old and alone in the world people.
The hero fights incessantly not to fall for her and it is really cute reading all the new feelings that develop into his heart causing confusion and bewilderment.
We also have an undeniable attraction between H and h with a couple of steamy scenes and a nasty "OW" that causes some trouble.
A really good pastime.
February 21, 2022
Well, this was just delightful. Told entirely from his point of view, with an unexpected heroine with unexpected baggage, and light on any serious obstacles or nasty feeling. I really enjoy Charlotte Lamb’s humorous writing style, it’s so fun when she gets the right set of characters together, especially when the guy is befuddled by his feelings and in a helpless temper about having his world upended.
If you like this one, try out Retribution by the same author. Another sharp, witty heroine (who illustrates children’s books!) who gives as good as she gets.
If you like this one, try out Retribution by the same author. Another sharp, witty heroine (who illustrates children’s books!) who gives as good as she gets.
July 7, 2019
Told entirely from the hero’s POV this was a most enjoyable read, very warm and quite touching. I loved the heroine Patience as well as James. There are plenty of reviews here that give an excellent description of the story. All the characters were well drawn and the story was delightful.
avoid
June 15, 2022Self note avoid
Pet peeve. Kids everywhere.
Pet peeve. Kids everywhere.
September 28, 2018
This book is the equivalent of a Katherine Hepburn/Cary Grant movie.
It was sweet, funny and you fall in love with the characters. ALL of the characters! Even the oldies, the kids, the dogs. They all steal your heart.
Except for Fiona.
Fiona can go jump in a frozen lake.
It was sweet, funny and you fall in love with the characters. ALL of the characters! Even the oldies, the kids, the dogs. They all steal your heart.
Except for Fiona.
Fiona can go jump in a frozen lake.
December 23, 2019
This is the start to a series where we primarily get the perspective of hero, which, if this is any indication, is going to be very interesting. This story introduces James, a bank manager who had a rough childhood and is therefore mostly cold and unfeeling. His mother left when he was 10 and left him behind to be emotionally abused by a cold and unfeeling father with strict expectations - thus James is the man he is today. But in walks Patience Kirby, a warm and loving heroine who wants him to set aside his bitterness and re-connect with his sick mother. James claims he won't do it, but finds his actions going against his very thoughts...next thing you know he's meeting and being charmed by all of Patience's siblings and her boarders. This softens hims considerably and introduces the unfamiliar feelings of love for Patience. But James's biggest issue is vulnerability - he doesn't want to be seen as weak or vulnerable, and to have Patience he's going to have to do just that. Will love for Patience allow James to forgive his mother, open his heart to Patience and her family and put his heart on the line to declare his feelings?
Decidedly un-angsty, but this works, even as a fluffy story...maybe because just having James's POV and his feelings is kinda angsty in and of itself. His background is heart-breaking, but the vulnerable feelings he's able to show underneath the surface really make him human and not the alpha-asshole he reveals to the world. It was fascinating watching him be ass-hatty while internally dealing with the conflicting feelings of weakness (fear of which stems from his childhood) and wanting to be loved and loveable. This mostly comes through in his fear of Patience's rejection, which is a real fear for him because he recognizes that he's not an ideal choice for her. This ends up being a really interesting little journey through a vulnerable hero's head as he realizes the importance of love and family. Although, I do kinda wish that we'd gotten some recognition of how much his mother hurt him with her actions and maybe a little bit more closure in that department. Even the heroine seems to skip right over that realization - unless she's saying something that hurts him by denying his humanity altogether because of the damage his mother did...and that kind of hurt also never really gets addressed. But we wouldn't either because our tough hero would never address it. If this is a taste of what's to come, I'm really interested in the rest of this series.
Just FYI - there is a touch of what some might consider infidelity. James is dating Fiona, a cold, ice-woman with whom he is not having sex and he is not in love. Nor does she love him, but the two sort of expect marriage somewhere down the line. James begins falling in love with Patience and starts distancing himself from Fiona, except when he tries to set things back as they were before Patience. Technically, James is being unfaithful to Fiona (and he kinda admits it too). But it doesn't feel like emotional infidelity because neither have their feelings involved...so this didn't really bother me except in the technical sense. Even the fact that James is going on dates with Fiona while falling in love with Patience didn't really bug me (maybe because he was thinking of Patience the whole time and we know that from his POV).
Decidedly un-angsty, but this works, even as a fluffy story...maybe because just having James's POV and his feelings is kinda angsty in and of itself. His background is heart-breaking, but the vulnerable feelings he's able to show underneath the surface really make him human and not the alpha-asshole he reveals to the world. It was fascinating watching him be ass-hatty while internally dealing with the conflicting feelings of weakness (fear of which stems from his childhood) and wanting to be loved and loveable. This mostly comes through in his fear of Patience's rejection, which is a real fear for him because he recognizes that he's not an ideal choice for her. This ends up being a really interesting little journey through a vulnerable hero's head as he realizes the importance of love and family. Although, I do kinda wish that we'd gotten some recognition of how much his mother hurt him with her actions and maybe a little bit more closure in that department. Even the heroine seems to skip right over that realization - unless she's saying something that hurts him by denying his humanity altogether because of the damage his mother did...and that kind of hurt also never really gets addressed. But we wouldn't either because our tough hero would never address it. If this is a taste of what's to come, I'm really interested in the rest of this series.
Just FYI - there is a touch of what some might consider infidelity. James is dating Fiona, a cold, ice-woman with whom he is not having sex and he is not in love. Nor does she love him, but the two sort of expect marriage somewhere down the line. James begins falling in love with Patience and starts distancing himself from Fiona, except when he tries to set things back as they were before Patience. Technically, James is being unfaithful to Fiona (and he kinda admits it too). But it doesn't feel like emotional infidelity because neither have their feelings involved...so this didn't really bother me except in the technical sense. Even the fact that James is going on dates with Fiona while falling in love with Patience didn't really bug me (maybe because he was thinking of Patience the whole time and we know that from his POV).
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 23, 2021
*Happy Sigh* This could have been titled so many different ways. I think “Saving James” would have been very appropriate. This book is told totally from James point of view.
James is our 35 year old hero. His loving, full of life mother left when he was 10. Unfortunately, that meant he was raised by his rather cold, austere, unloving father(the squasher of dreams!). He was fortunate that the chauffeur and his wife, the cook, were around to look out for his best interests, along with the secretary who used to work for his now deceased father.
Unfortunately, our hero is doomed to repeat his father’s life. He is cold, no nonsense and dates the very slim attractive Fiona because she shares the same traits. (Fiona fails as a full on ow, as she doesn’t put out even though they have been together for at least a year).
James life changes very quickly when the bubbly, caring, perky, cute h,(Patience 22/23 year old) enters his life. She became responsible for her 3 younger 1/2 siblings 3 years ago when the parents were killed in an accident. To make ends meet and to keep the children in their family home she takes in elderly boarders who have nowhere else to go. The house is also filled with random pets. She approaches the H when she takes in his elderly mother who in his words is “dead to him”. The mother very much wants to make amends before she dies. (She used to be a singer and after marrying the father she wasn’t even allowed to sing in the house, so she sung lullabies to the son when the dad was at work!!!)
James, for reasons that he can’t explain, is instantly attracted to the lively h. In fact he is in love with her within days. (The whole story takes place over a week or 2). For the first time, he starts to analyze his life and doesn’t like what he sees or how his life makes him feel(basically dead inside).
This story has the h helping him bridge the gap between him and his mother, and open his heart to real love for the first time ever.
The secondary characters infuse some humor(along with the h). There is a bitchy ow who causes some angst and an immature wannabe om who causes some jealousy for the H. The H is worried about the age difference between him and the h.
I am leaving so much out, and there are some great reviews out there with much more details to check out.
James is our 35 year old hero. His loving, full of life mother left when he was 10. Unfortunately, that meant he was raised by his rather cold, austere, unloving father(the squasher of dreams!). He was fortunate that the chauffeur and his wife, the cook, were around to look out for his best interests, along with the secretary who used to work for his now deceased father.
Unfortunately, our hero is doomed to repeat his father’s life. He is cold, no nonsense and dates the very slim attractive Fiona because she shares the same traits. (Fiona fails as a full on ow, as she doesn’t put out even though they have been together for at least a year).
James life changes very quickly when the bubbly, caring, perky, cute h,(Patience 22/23 year old) enters his life. She became responsible for her 3 younger 1/2 siblings 3 years ago when the parents were killed in an accident. To make ends meet and to keep the children in their family home she takes in elderly boarders who have nowhere else to go. The house is also filled with random pets. She approaches the H when she takes in his elderly mother who in his words is “dead to him”. The mother very much wants to make amends before she dies. (She used to be a singer and after marrying the father she wasn’t even allowed to sing in the house, so she sung lullabies to the son when the dad was at work!!!)
James, for reasons that he can’t explain, is instantly attracted to the lively h. In fact he is in love with her within days. (The whole story takes place over a week or 2). For the first time, he starts to analyze his life and doesn’t like what he sees or how his life makes him feel(basically dead inside).
This story has the h helping him bridge the gap between him and his mother, and open his heart to real love for the first time ever.
The secondary characters infuse some humor(along with the h). There is a bitchy ow who causes some angst and an immature wannabe om who causes some jealousy for the H. The H is worried about the age difference between him and the h.
I am leaving so much out, and there are some great reviews out there with much more details to check out.
June 23, 2014
back on track with this book. enjoyable read.
September 10, 2016
Didn't like, didn't finish. It's told by the male and I'm not down with that!
January 18, 2019
a re-read
March 17, 2019
A sweet story from his point of view.
April 22, 2023
A rare male point of view Mills & Boon - and I LOVED it. The H is stuffy, cold, bad tempered and doesn't understand women at all. He lives a solitary life surrounded by beautiful things and people, and then he meets our h who is scruffy, runs a boarding house for elders and seems to live in an environment not too distant from the Weasley's chaotic 'Burrow' from Harry Potter. The H falls for her HARD and we get to enjoy him being confused and angry and hilariously immature about his feelings. I love it.
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