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Forced Offer
Society shuns Belinda Presleigh, believing she schemed to force a marriage offer from the Earl of Berrington. In spite of his resentment, the earl becomes attracted to Belinda, yet not in time to prevent her enemies from plotting against her.
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212 pages, Paperback
First published August 10, 2001
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Gloria Gay
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My love of reading and writing goes back to my discovery of Nancy Drew, The Dana Girls and Judy Bolton mysteries, which I read by the truckload.
From those early books I went on to read the classics and alternating with classics I would read gothics, and it was "Rebecca", which revived a dream of childhood to become a writer. A letter from Daphne Du Maurier, in reply to my letter to her spurred me into writing a gothic novel. After that I became addicted to Regency romances,
My love of reading and writing goes back to my discovery of Nancy Drew, The Dana Girls and Judy Bolton mysteries, which I read by the truckload.
From those early books I went on to read the classics and alternating with classics I would read gothics, and it was "Rebecca", which revived a dream of childhood to become a writer. A letter from Daphne Du Maurier, in reply to my letter to her spurred me into writing a gothic novel. After that I became addicted to Regency romances,
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January 19, 2013
The book started with the reluctant Belinda and her mother on they're way to their hosts wine cellar to meet with Belinda's "secret" crush, Richard. But the truth, of course, is that Belinda's hussy of a mother engineered the whole thing up so that Belinda would be compromised by the Earl which would result to a FORCED OFFER from him and of course she succeeded.
I am honestly a sucker for themes like this and I love reading about plain/mousy/shy/wallflower/weird heroines who end up getting their prince but despite the fact that we've got both of them here, it didn't work out for me because I didn't believe the romance for 1 sec. I mean how can you fall in love with each other when you never had even 1 decent conversation? Sure, they are compatible in bed but that's hardly a reason to fall in love.
The h, yeah, I could sympathize with her (for all that she'd been through here, who wouldn't? Poor girl) but she was too much of a doormat so that "Girl! get some spine!" was my favorite word of the day.
The H was just....well.. not much of a hero. I would've rather the h ended up with his best friend.
The villain was just plain nasty. Ugh, shes a total b**. And what the H's sis did to the h was unforgivable.
Anyway, I did enjoy this book and it did stir a few feelings from me which hasn't happened for quite sometime now in latest my readings. I wouldn't have minded if the author added 100 or so pages more providing that it would be for the H's grovelling scenes and the h taking a bit of revenge and of course the real romance story.
I am honestly a sucker for themes like this and I love reading about plain/mousy/shy/wallflower/weird heroines who end up getting their prince but despite the fact that we've got both of them here, it didn't work out for me because I didn't believe the romance for 1 sec. I mean how can you fall in love with each other when you never had even 1 decent conversation? Sure, they are compatible in bed but that's hardly a reason to fall in love.
The h, yeah, I could sympathize with her (for all that she'd been through here, who wouldn't? Poor girl) but she was too much of a doormat so that "Girl! get some spine!" was my favorite word of the day.
The H was just....well.. not much of a hero. I would've rather the h ended up with his best friend.
The villain was just plain nasty. Ugh, shes a total b**. And what the H's sis did to the h was unforgivable.
Anyway, I did enjoy this book and it did stir a few feelings from me which hasn't happened for quite sometime now in latest my readings. I wouldn't have minded if the author added 100 or so pages more providing that it would be for the H's grovelling scenes and the h taking a bit of revenge and of course the real romance story.
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