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Broken Vows
SHE HAD VOWED "TILL DEATH DO US PART" -- BUT THIS WAS TOO MUCH!When Clarice had wed Julian Rown, she had borne with pride and dignity the outrageous escapades and infuriating affairs of this strikingly handsome, shockingly rakish Viscount. Only when news of his mysterious death at sea was confirmed by His Majesty's Government itself did Clarice feel free to search for a different and finer kind of love than her hot-blooded and unfortunately irresistible husband had offered her.But just when she had found the contentment she hoped for with the almost excessively honorable John Prescott, Julien returned from his supposed watery grave -- as insufferable and attractive as ever. This time, Clarice vowed, she would not give in to his pleas -- a vow so much easier to make than to keep...
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July 16, 2024
Beautiful Clarice fell in love with Julian at 18. Julian was then 24 years old and a strikingly handsome, rakish Viscount.
A man of great wealth who had a reputation with the ladies.
Their union was the wish of both their families and the two youths were inclined toward each other.
The first year of their marriage was the most glorious of Clarice's life until disillusionment had shattered her dreams.
She could no longer deny the evidence of his unfaithfulness.
Tears, bitterness and arguments became a daily occurrence. The intensity of her reaction to her husband's indiscretions would make his behaviour worse rather than better.
Clarice gave him many chances and he had betrayed her again and again.
It was an impossible situation.
By the fourth year of their marriage, Clarice already had two sons and she was pregnant with the third child, when she was informed by the Government that Julian and his mistress Terese, were passengers on a ship sailing for Canada when it went down on the open seas.
There were no survivors.
Four years went by. Clarice became engaged to John, a gentleman farmer.
The next evening, Clarice's brother came home and the butler told him there was a man waiting to see him in the book room.
He went in and there was Julian, not a ghost, not an imposter, but Julian very much alive.
Julian told him he was a spy for the Government and four years ago someone had uncovered him and murdered Terese and his own life was in grave danger.
The Government reassigned him in Canada and it suited him well enough to go.
Four years later the war was over and the Government sent him a message that he could return home if he so wished.
Julian asked the brother if Clarice remarried. If she did he would leave without letting her know he was alive.
He wouldn't ruin her life twice.
He wanted to put the past behind him, he wanted peace and if Clarice was still his, then he meant to win her back.
Clarice was called to the house that evening and this is the scene of when she first saw him:
"Clarice spoke his name so softly it was scarcely audible and two large tears welled up in her eyes and spilled over into her pale cheeks. In a moment she was in her husband's arms, sobbing uncontrollably and repeating his name over and over."
She then withdrew from him. In spite of her husband's miraculous return, he was still the man who had abandoned her for another woman, allowed her to believe him dead, to mourn for him, to be alone for four years. She should not permit herself to bury these facts because of sentiment.
Julian told Clarice that he was a Government agent. He'd stumbled on something important that resulted in the death of Terese and also threatened his life.
It was deemed best by the Government to disappear permanently.
So he died.
But those weren't the only reasons he'd agreed to plan to die.
He'd had reached a point in their marriage where he was coming to detest it.
His intention was to free them both.
He never meant to come back.
Clarice told him about John and that the night before she'd agreed to be his wife.
She loved him, she said.
She told him that he should not suppose that he could suddenly reappear and their lives would go as if nothing had ever happened.
She would not go back to a marriage that was a travesty before he even left.
He said he was sorry for everything but she was still his wife and a divorce would ruin her, and she would also lose the children to him.
Everything was on his side because back then women had little rights.
Clarice was greatly unsettled by his return, she was angry, confused, but not ready to fall into his arms.
Clarice had always believed him the most beautiful man she ever seen but she was not in love with him any more.
A man of great wealth who had a reputation with the ladies.
Their union was the wish of both their families and the two youths were inclined toward each other.
The first year of their marriage was the most glorious of Clarice's life until disillusionment had shattered her dreams.
She could no longer deny the evidence of his unfaithfulness.
Tears, bitterness and arguments became a daily occurrence. The intensity of her reaction to her husband's indiscretions would make his behaviour worse rather than better.
Clarice gave him many chances and he had betrayed her again and again.
It was an impossible situation.
By the fourth year of their marriage, Clarice already had two sons and she was pregnant with the third child, when she was informed by the Government that Julian and his mistress Terese, were passengers on a ship sailing for Canada when it went down on the open seas.
There were no survivors.
Four years went by. Clarice became engaged to John, a gentleman farmer.
The next evening, Clarice's brother came home and the butler told him there was a man waiting to see him in the book room.
He went in and there was Julian, not a ghost, not an imposter, but Julian very much alive.
Julian told him he was a spy for the Government and four years ago someone had uncovered him and murdered Terese and his own life was in grave danger.
The Government reassigned him in Canada and it suited him well enough to go.
Four years later the war was over and the Government sent him a message that he could return home if he so wished.
Julian asked the brother if Clarice remarried. If she did he would leave without letting her know he was alive.
He wouldn't ruin her life twice.
He wanted to put the past behind him, he wanted peace and if Clarice was still his, then he meant to win her back.
Clarice was called to the house that evening and this is the scene of when she first saw him:
"Clarice spoke his name so softly it was scarcely audible and two large tears welled up in her eyes and spilled over into her pale cheeks. In a moment she was in her husband's arms, sobbing uncontrollably and repeating his name over and over."
She then withdrew from him. In spite of her husband's miraculous return, he was still the man who had abandoned her for another woman, allowed her to believe him dead, to mourn for him, to be alone for four years. She should not permit herself to bury these facts because of sentiment.
Julian told Clarice that he was a Government agent. He'd stumbled on something important that resulted in the death of Terese and also threatened his life.
It was deemed best by the Government to disappear permanently.
So he died.
But those weren't the only reasons he'd agreed to plan to die.
He'd had reached a point in their marriage where he was coming to detest it.
His intention was to free them both.
He never meant to come back.
Clarice told him about John and that the night before she'd agreed to be his wife.
She loved him, she said.
She told him that he should not suppose that he could suddenly reappear and their lives would go as if nothing had ever happened.
She would not go back to a marriage that was a travesty before he even left.
He said he was sorry for everything but she was still his wife and a divorce would ruin her, and she would also lose the children to him.
Everything was on his side because back then women had little rights.
Clarice was greatly unsettled by his return, she was angry, confused, but not ready to fall into his arms.
Clarice had always believed him the most beautiful man she ever seen but she was not in love with him any more.
May 31, 2021
Meh.
Basically, the book has two sub-plots/tropes going on - the 'romance'/infidelity/broken marriage one and then we have the high intrigue/treason/suspense thing. The ‘romance’ is maddening in itself but the other is a killer - of the kill-all-brain-cells variety.
Basically, the book has two sub-plots/tropes going on - the 'romance'/infidelity/broken marriage one and then we have the high intrigue/treason/suspense thing. The ‘romance’ is maddening in itself but the other is a killer - of the kill-all-brain-cells variety.
September 1, 2019
Don't. Read. This. Book.
If this book were a lifeboat and you were on the Titanic? Choose blessed death in the mercifully icy waters of the North Atlantic.
I did ponder giving it a second star for its quasi-historically accurate attitudes about marital infidelity for men as well as a married woman's non-existent rights, but it's also supposed to be a romance novel, for crying out loud, and should know better than to sacrifice romance for accuracy.
Here's the deal: our unfaithful "hero" deserted his pregnant wife and two children (as well as his father, brother, and sister) for *handwave* spy reasons. For English spy reasons, he made it appear he had run off to Canada with his latest mistress (who was a French spy) and died when the boat was supposedly sunk by the French. He was happy to leave at the time because his wife's tantrums over his repeated infidelities were making him miserable at home. Better to abandon his children than deal with a shrew...or, y'know, keep it in his pantaloons.
Her sister -- yes, HER sister -- supports this view by suggesting that the heroine nagging her husband about his cheating only encouraged more cheating. Let's be clear: no one is denying he was unfaithful during the first four years of their marriage when they were together. Upon his return, the louse simply attributes his past behavior to the "fast set" he was running with at the time...and *handwave* spy reasons.
Now that the war is over and his spy reasons have evaporated, he has returned home because he missed his wife and is hoping to reconcile with her if his "widow" hasn't remarried in the four years he's been gone. If she has remarried, he claims he'll slink back into obscurity rather than expose her to the shame of bigamy. (Coincidentally, the heroine had just gotten engaged the evening before to a gentleman farmer.)
Our heroine cries in the hero's arms upon his return, but she has no interest in resuming their marriage of four years before. He was a horrible husband and she wants a divorce. My brain nearly explodes at this point when he taunts her that she can't get a divorce because she has no cause against him: "...were you thinking of an annulment or divorce? On what grounds? Desertion would be difficult now, with me here..." If he had been decent enough NOT to fake his own death, she could have divorced him for desertion during his absence. Because he was "dead," she didn't need to. Now that he's back, she can't?? Seriously, this spiral is going to kill me.
As the book progresses, this prince among men repeatedly makes it clear that if they do separate, he will be keeping their children. You know, the children he abandoned for four years and would have abandoned forever if only the heroine had been clever enough to remarry before he returned.
Then, after the jealous wife spots the hero kissing a previous lover in public and decides to pay him back in kind with the OM-fiancé, the cheater slut-shames her. She is a whore for being unfaithful to him out of revenge. While he's raining down epithets, she does point out his hypocrisy by comparing her actions to his known infidelities four years earlier and suspected infidelity now, but that argument is simply ignored.
In the end, she assumes the blame for his current cheating because she refused to have sex with him after his return: "by absolutely refusing to be a wife to you I must have forgone my claim to your fidelity. It wasn't reasonable to expect you to adhere to nine months of celibacy while I sought to know my mind, but I didn't think of that then."
Yes, how ridiculous any woman would be to assume that a man who declares his love could remain faithful for a whole nine months if she is denying him sex. Also, I think this pretty much makes clear that she doesn't remotely expect him to have been faithful during his four absent years, a topic that's only lightly touched on in a highly coded fashion when she asks him if he had been to any balls in America.
Oh, and *handwave* HEA.
I can't even put the cheater's contrition tour tag on this one because there is no contrition. There is also no romance.
If this book were a lifeboat and you were on the Titanic? Choose blessed death in the mercifully icy waters of the North Atlantic.
I did ponder giving it a second star for its quasi-historically accurate attitudes about marital infidelity for men as well as a married woman's non-existent rights, but it's also supposed to be a romance novel, for crying out loud, and should know better than to sacrifice romance for accuracy.
Here's the deal: our unfaithful "hero" deserted his pregnant wife and two children (as well as his father, brother, and sister) for *handwave* spy reasons. For English spy reasons, he made it appear he had run off to Canada with his latest mistress (who was a French spy) and died when the boat was supposedly sunk by the French. He was happy to leave at the time because his wife's tantrums over his repeated infidelities were making him miserable at home. Better to abandon his children than deal with a shrew...or, y'know, keep it in his pantaloons.
Her sister -- yes, HER sister -- supports this view by suggesting that the heroine nagging her husband about his cheating only encouraged more cheating. Let's be clear: no one is denying he was unfaithful during the first four years of their marriage when they were together. Upon his return, the louse simply attributes his past behavior to the "fast set" he was running with at the time...and *handwave* spy reasons.
Now that the war is over and his spy reasons have evaporated, he has returned home because he missed his wife and is hoping to reconcile with her if his "widow" hasn't remarried in the four years he's been gone. If she has remarried, he claims he'll slink back into obscurity rather than expose her to the shame of bigamy. (Coincidentally, the heroine had just gotten engaged the evening before to a gentleman farmer.)
Our heroine cries in the hero's arms upon his return, but she has no interest in resuming their marriage of four years before. He was a horrible husband and she wants a divorce. My brain nearly explodes at this point when he taunts her that she can't get a divorce because she has no cause against him: "...were you thinking of an annulment or divorce? On what grounds? Desertion would be difficult now, with me here..." If he had been decent enough NOT to fake his own death, she could have divorced him for desertion during his absence. Because he was "dead," she didn't need to. Now that he's back, she can't?? Seriously, this spiral is going to kill me.
As the book progresses, this prince among men repeatedly makes it clear that if they do separate, he will be keeping their children. You know, the children he abandoned for four years and would have abandoned forever if only the heroine had been clever enough to remarry before he returned.
Then, after the jealous wife spots the hero kissing a previous lover in public and decides to pay him back in kind with the OM-fiancé, the cheater slut-shames her. She is a whore for being unfaithful to him out of revenge. While he's raining down epithets, she does point out his hypocrisy by comparing her actions to his known infidelities four years earlier and suspected infidelity now, but that argument is simply ignored.
In the end, she assumes the blame for his current cheating because she refused to have sex with him after his return: "by absolutely refusing to be a wife to you I must have forgone my claim to your fidelity. It wasn't reasonable to expect you to adhere to nine months of celibacy while I sought to know my mind, but I didn't think of that then."
Yes, how ridiculous any woman would be to assume that a man who declares his love could remain faithful for a whole nine months if she is denying him sex. Also, I think this pretty much makes clear that she doesn't remotely expect him to have been faithful during his four absent years, a topic that's only lightly touched on in a highly coded fashion when she asks him if he had been to any balls in America.
Oh, and *handwave* HEA.
I can't even put the cheater's contrition tour tag on this one because there is no contrition. There is also no romance.
February 10, 2017
Julian Rowne has been dead for many years when he shocks his brother-in-law by turning up in his bookroom,very much alive.
Returning to the country and and family he abandoned,his return is met by shock and anger by his wife Clarice,Lady Rowne.
I cant admire a "hero" who not only let his wife and children believe he was dead for four years none the less leaving his wife as she was heavily pregnant.Spy buisness or not that was horrible behavior.
"Did you by any chance know that Clare was breeding when you left?” he asked.
Yes.”
Yes,' " Peter mimicked. ”That's all? Just like that? 'Yes'?”
Julian said nothing.
Are you even interested in the outcome?”
I feel sure you'll tell me.”
It was a girl, called Julia. After you.” Peter threw up his hands in a gesture that might have been disgust or defeat and was in fact a little of both. "What do you mean to do now? See her?”
That depends, doesn't it? You still haven't told me if she has married again.”
p 13
Does it mean that you have suddenly become the ideal
husband who never even looks at another woman?” she asked
with a watery* laugh.
He answered her with a smile. "I doubt if I'm capable of
that much perfection.”
p 69
*what on Earth is a watery laugh? Fluid on the lungs?
Returning to the country and and family he abandoned,his return is met by shock and anger by his wife Clarice,Lady Rowne.
I cant admire a "hero" who not only let his wife and children believe he was dead for four years none the less leaving his wife as she was heavily pregnant.Spy buisness or not that was horrible behavior.
"Did you by any chance know that Clare was breeding when you left?” he asked.
Yes.”
Yes,' " Peter mimicked. ”That's all? Just like that? 'Yes'?”
Julian said nothing.
Are you even interested in the outcome?”
I feel sure you'll tell me.”
It was a girl, called Julia. After you.” Peter threw up his hands in a gesture that might have been disgust or defeat and was in fact a little of both. "What do you mean to do now? See her?”
That depends, doesn't it? You still haven't told me if she has married again.”
p 13
Does it mean that you have suddenly become the ideal
husband who never even looks at another woman?” she asked
with a watery* laugh.
He answered her with a smile. "I doubt if I'm capable of
that much perfection.”
p 69
*what on Earth is a watery laugh? Fluid on the lungs?
May 24, 2012
I liked it but I'm still not sure I believe in the HEA!
Clarice and Julian are cousins – not sure how close – that have been married for a total of eight years. Four years of their marriage they were together, but Julian constantly cheated on Clare. She would get so upset and possessive about his constant infidelities and they would argue thereby making his home life a living …. With their volatile marriage seeming to be at an impasse an opportunity presents itself to Julian, an undercover agent, where he can get away and be “dead” for all intents and purposes. He jumps at the chance and walks away from the breeding Clare, his other two children, and his family. Julian doesn’t intend on coming back…ever! He lets Clare and his family think that he has left them to run away with his mistress, only for the lovers to “die” at sea! Four years later, Julian has returned and it seems he would like to finish some unfinished business and lets it be known that he is no longer in pursuit of that avenue, but he would like to obtain his wife and children again. Well unless she has remarried then he will walk away.
Julian never meant to hurt her yet later on he claims he will not intentionally hurt her again which implied that he did so before. Clare’s own sister seems to find a way to blame Clare for Julian’s cheating. He left because of the state of their marriage – which was like that because he ran w/ a fast crowd and his government habits were hard to break. Julian claimed that while he was gone he thought of her a lot but he didn’t plan on returning ever. So why did he return now? I’m wondering if he knew what was going on at home via his buddy and his messages. Maybe he got caught up in the mess of a r/s w/ her and didn’t know how to fix it so he cut and ran and of course it didn’t hurt that he knew the identity of the villain despite what he fibs about to Clare.
Julian claims that he has changed but Clare believes that he just wants his family back so he can be comfortable again and avoid the scandal of divorce as well. Julian offers a compromise, but at the end of the compromise she will not get the kids. He can’t let another man raise the heir – did I mention that he didn’t plan on coming back and he knew that there was a possibility that she would remarry. Did he truly care about the kids or were they a means to an end?
Clare believed that Julian wouldn’t go back on his word yet it is pointed out to her that he did so w/ their vows. Julian feared for his life/safety when he left as well but he didn’t fear for his family’s, it seems. If the villain knew his identity it wouldn’t be hard to get to the family and by Julian’s own claim they villain was willing to do just about anything to maintain his identity.
Clare sucked in the character judgments as well; Julian was a rake, OM was a gold digger, and brother……
Julian very easily lies and misleads others so why wouldn’t he do so w/ her too. He distrusts Clare as well and I’m not sure why? His buddy got messages to him in America/Canada so did he know Clare was seeing OM is that what brought him back as well? Why wasn’t he at the other house like he told her he would be? Who was the strange man? Why was the OW there? Why were they going to the store? And he kisses her “lightly and lingeringly” and then claims he would have kissed his sister or hers the same way BUT he didn’t! I checked and when he greeted these women he did not greet them like that.
This man gets caught kissing OW but won’t explain to Clare as she has already determined he has taken a mistress – why wouldn’t she he had so many times before. One would think he would want to reassure his estranged wife not pull-the-you-need-to-trust-me card when he hasn’t even been back that long! When Clare lets Julian believe the worst of her he calls her names and says he could understand if she did for love. But he never cheated for love and did those OW cheat for love? Double standards abound.
Clare seems to trust Julian more than he trusts her and she doesn’t buy into what her brother says about him and yet some of what he says could be true. How do we truly know that Julian is what and where he says he was or that he didn’t do what her brother was saying? Julian lies about divorce as well and Clare lies to brother about letters which makes you wonder how someone knew so much about things later on.
J says, “It is the greatest pity that the depth of your pocket does not equal the deviousness of your mind. Fortunately, mine does.” That makes me wonder about his r/s w/ Clare as well. Julian continues to stand by his reasons for leaving Clare those years ago, but Clare chooses to paint him in a different light. Later he confesses in front of Clare that he knew ID of villain years ago and she says nothing!
Julian doesn’t believe that Clare didn’t betray him, but when she confesses her love for him and immediately he believes and trusts in her love now! If she loves him then of course he must trust her oh and btw betrayal not in her nature yet he believed she betrayed him not five minutes before. Then he further compounds it by saying her loving heart wouldn’t let her betray him yet he believed that she had a few minutes ago.
I’m not sure why he kissed the OW. Basically it was rash and he claimed he would have kissed his sister or SIL the same way and yet not once in this book did he do that – I went back and looked too! Then Julian is all excuse giving of her for thinking that he had taken up w/ OW. Why? He knew their history and he didn’t care then either. It was like he never even considered what she would think when she saw that until the end after she admits her love of him.
I guess it comes down to I don’t trust him he seemed to fib about so many things and I saw no real reason for those fibs, IMHO. Failure for the romance and HEA, otherwise very interesting novel although I still need more from Julian and more of his POV as I felt like he didn’t want to change the status quo. It was like he wanted his cake and to eat it too!
Clarice and Julian are cousins – not sure how close – that have been married for a total of eight years. Four years of their marriage they were together, but Julian constantly cheated on Clare. She would get so upset and possessive about his constant infidelities and they would argue thereby making his home life a living …. With their volatile marriage seeming to be at an impasse an opportunity presents itself to Julian, an undercover agent, where he can get away and be “dead” for all intents and purposes. He jumps at the chance and walks away from the breeding Clare, his other two children, and his family. Julian doesn’t intend on coming back…ever! He lets Clare and his family think that he has left them to run away with his mistress, only for the lovers to “die” at sea! Four years later, Julian has returned and it seems he would like to finish some unfinished business and lets it be known that he is no longer in pursuit of that avenue, but he would like to obtain his wife and children again. Well unless she has remarried then he will walk away.
Julian never meant to hurt her yet later on he claims he will not intentionally hurt her again which implied that he did so before. Clare’s own sister seems to find a way to blame Clare for Julian’s cheating. He left because of the state of their marriage – which was like that because he ran w/ a fast crowd and his government habits were hard to break. Julian claimed that while he was gone he thought of her a lot but he didn’t plan on returning ever. So why did he return now? I’m wondering if he knew what was going on at home via his buddy and his messages. Maybe he got caught up in the mess of a r/s w/ her and didn’t know how to fix it so he cut and ran and of course it didn’t hurt that he knew the identity of the villain despite what he fibs about to Clare.
Julian claims that he has changed but Clare believes that he just wants his family back so he can be comfortable again and avoid the scandal of divorce as well. Julian offers a compromise, but at the end of the compromise she will not get the kids. He can’t let another man raise the heir – did I mention that he didn’t plan on coming back and he knew that there was a possibility that she would remarry. Did he truly care about the kids or were they a means to an end?
Clare believed that Julian wouldn’t go back on his word yet it is pointed out to her that he did so w/ their vows. Julian feared for his life/safety when he left as well but he didn’t fear for his family’s, it seems. If the villain knew his identity it wouldn’t be hard to get to the family and by Julian’s own claim they villain was willing to do just about anything to maintain his identity.
Clare sucked in the character judgments as well; Julian was a rake, OM was a gold digger, and brother……
Julian very easily lies and misleads others so why wouldn’t he do so w/ her too. He distrusts Clare as well and I’m not sure why? His buddy got messages to him in America/Canada so did he know Clare was seeing OM is that what brought him back as well? Why wasn’t he at the other house like he told her he would be? Who was the strange man? Why was the OW there? Why were they going to the store? And he kisses her “lightly and lingeringly” and then claims he would have kissed his sister or hers the same way BUT he didn’t! I checked and when he greeted these women he did not greet them like that.
This man gets caught kissing OW but won’t explain to Clare as she has already determined he has taken a mistress – why wouldn’t she he had so many times before. One would think he would want to reassure his estranged wife not pull-the-you-need-to-trust-me card when he hasn’t even been back that long! When Clare lets Julian believe the worst of her he calls her names and says he could understand if she did for love. But he never cheated for love and did those OW cheat for love? Double standards abound.
Clare seems to trust Julian more than he trusts her and she doesn’t buy into what her brother says about him and yet some of what he says could be true. How do we truly know that Julian is what and where he says he was or that he didn’t do what her brother was saying? Julian lies about divorce as well and Clare lies to brother about letters which makes you wonder how someone knew so much about things later on.
J says, “It is the greatest pity that the depth of your pocket does not equal the deviousness of your mind. Fortunately, mine does.” That makes me wonder about his r/s w/ Clare as well. Julian continues to stand by his reasons for leaving Clare those years ago, but Clare chooses to paint him in a different light. Later he confesses in front of Clare that he knew ID of villain years ago and she says nothing!
Julian doesn’t believe that Clare didn’t betray him, but when she confesses her love for him and immediately he believes and trusts in her love now! If she loves him then of course he must trust her oh and btw betrayal not in her nature yet he believed she betrayed him not five minutes before. Then he further compounds it by saying her loving heart wouldn’t let her betray him yet he believed that she had a few minutes ago.
I’m not sure why he kissed the OW. Basically it was rash and he claimed he would have kissed his sister or SIL the same way and yet not once in this book did he do that – I went back and looked too! Then Julian is all excuse giving of her for thinking that he had taken up w/ OW. Why? He knew their history and he didn’t care then either. It was like he never even considered what she would think when she saw that until the end after she admits her love of him.
I guess it comes down to I don’t trust him he seemed to fib about so many things and I saw no real reason for those fibs, IMHO. Failure for the romance and HEA, otherwise very interesting novel although I still need more from Julian and more of his POV as I felt like he didn’t want to change the status quo. It was like he wanted his cake and to eat it too!
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October 20, 2025
This was written in a rather formal way, and a more likely way that was communicated back then, so you don't really get an emotional upheaval in their conduct or communications, but nevertheless it was engaging. Not so if you don't like this type of writing. But it had depth to it. I would have given it higher stars, but for me, the whole spy genre became the dominant feature and not so much the hero and heroine's relationship. But it wasn't as stodgy as some reviewers expressed. You could tell that the hero had definitely changed and loved his wife at the end. You could tell he tired of exploiting his government position and really wanted to settle down. He realized the value of his own family.
August 15, 2024
The author's Hs are always cheaters, like so many Regency Romances, I don't know why they adore cheaters and hate the hs, it's the way I'm seeing. It's supose to show that they are great prizes because all the whores/sluts/dold-diggers want them and the end they choose the h after cheating them all the way until the end of the book. They are the dirt.
The h here is one of the worst cheaters that I saw. He should have been killed not only him but all the awful heroes like them.
The h here is one of the worst cheaters that I saw. He should have been killed not only him but all the awful heroes like them.
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