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Wow, John Saxon is a judgmental asshole! He definitely didn't show this side of himself in White Orchids. He is such a snob that I had to laugh when he realized his mistake of wooing a stranger whom he thought was a Christian aid worker but turned out to be a worldy Wainwright! His prejudices caught up with him in a most delicious way. HA! This will be hard reading if I hate the "hero" so much already!
— Nov 09, 2022 06:42AM
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Mary Elizabeth is an absolute delight! Her cousin Sam is adorable, too. I kinda want to the rest of the book to be nothing but their adventures by the sea. But since it won't be...I hope Mary Elizabeth doesn't completely lose her backbone in her desire to win over the sanctimonious John Saxon.
— Nov 10, 2022 06:35AM
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Sequel to White Orchids, starring the dude who converted the hero of WO and the hero's cousin. Apparently our converter falls head-over-heels in love with the cousin at first site and proposes marriage to her before actually, you know, talking to her. Strange proposal, indeed!
— Nov 09, 2022 05:39AM
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Honestly, the series as you describe it sounds infuriating. It hits so many of my berserk buttons. But I like watching you enjoy it!
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Laura wrote: "Honestly, the series as you describe it sounds infuriating. It hits so many of my berserk buttons. But I like watching you enjoy it!"I don't know that I'd call it "enjoyment," with this book at least. I favorited a couple of reviews that I agree with about the attitudes of these characters being absolutely awful. Camilla in the first book was super proud and seemingly unaware of her pride while she sat around judging everyone who wasn't exactly like her. John Saxon is both proud AND sanctimonious, so seeing him basically fall flat on his face when his assumptions were burst was rather satisfying. He's already in my personal doghouse but I'm willing to give this another ~50 or so pages to improve. The heroine and her spunky cousin definitely have potential in this one.
Born-again Christianity is my least-favorite flavor, and mercifully it's not one that GLH has used in the other books I've read thus far. I'm hoping it's an abberation...or I might just end up enjoying her historicals, as opposed to her contemporaries (WO & this were both written in the mid-1930s).
