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The Wedding Journey

by Carla Kelly

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Apr 14, 2026 05:34PM

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Forget Me Not (The Gents, #1)

by Sarah M. Eden (Goodreads Author)

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Sandra Moreira said: " I have some fascination about the 18th century, with all the history, customs and traditions and I loved this book very, very much!!

And obviously fell in love with the Gents! 😉

Julia's is a woman who remained a closed in herself, since childhood, beca I have some fascination about the 18th century, with all the history, customs and traditions and I loved this book very, very much!!

And obviously fell in love with the Gents! 😉

Julia's is a woman who remained a closed in herself, since childhood, because of all she suffered, all the deaths and departures she sees as a abandon. She remains a closed person, preferably staying at home, with no friends or family, because she feels that everyone had abandon her. Sometimes, she gave me the feeling that she should step up to her game, but who am I to know how it feels like to lose so much people and not crawl back to myself, to a place where there's no pain... yes, there isn't anything else, but no pain nevertheless. With Lucas and the Gents she opens up to the world and she no longer believe it's better to stay lonely with her books. She begins to trusting her childhood friend again.

Lucas, well Lucas was a handsome (despite there aren't great physical descriptions) adventurer, who thinks that the way to a great and complete life it's through adventures, trips and good times spend with his friends, so he forgot his childhood friend, the one remaining, but his always thinking of her, why we doesn't go back to see her?! You will have to read it and see if you stay satisfied with the answer 🤔

An only remark, it's a pity that the author didn't explore the apparel of the period a little more, this was a time with so much colour and textures that a I should like to see that side a bit more.

After all I have other remark 😉, it was nice to see more or at least some of the sexual relation between the couple, the questions behind the fact that the marriage didn't been consumed certainly passed through their minds. Specially between the talks with L. and the Gents. I understand the author didn't want to put sex in the story but never ever mentioned it felt strange and that's a minus in the story.

I really think I found a new favorite writer, loved the way the characters were built, the funny remarks of the Gents, the dialogues, after all the writing itself. Despite the total lack of steam, sex, etc between the couple. Sometimes I would like to read this kind of author approach to the theme! This book kept me with a smile on my face and a lot of giggles!! Just sweet, fun and loving! ...more "

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

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Sandra’s Quotes

“If you are losing your leisure, look out! -- It may be you are losing your soul.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: hobbies, leisure, me-time, virginia-woolf

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“Sooty shearwater? What even was a bird?!”
― India Holton, The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love

tags: beth-pickering, humorous-quotes

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“But instead he found himself fighting back the desire to buy some beeswax polish and offer to polish her furniture until it shone. And the fact that this wasn’t a metaphor disturbed him considerably.”
― India Holton, The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love

tags: devon-lockley, love-quotes-and-sayings, man

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“Why? It’s because I love you, damn me to hell. Because I’ve always loved you. Because I loved you when you were with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don’t deserve you, but I love you, anyway.”
― Julia Quinn, When He Was Wicked

tags: love

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“To my unsuspecting love.
When I look into your eyes, I lose all sense of time and place. Reason robbed, clear thought erased, I am lost in the paradise I find within your gaze.
I long to touch your blushing cheek, to whisper in your ear how I adore you, how I have lost my heart to you, how I cannot bear the thought of living without you.
To be so near to you without touching you is agony. Your blindness to my feelings is a daily torment, and I feel driven to the edge of madness by my love for you.
Where is your compassion when I need it most? Open your eyes , Love, and see what is right before you: that I am not merely a friend, but a man deeply, desperately , in love with you.
Longing for you.”
― Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke

tags: regency-romance

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