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Title: With This Ring (Signet Regency Romance) by Carla Kelly ISBN: 0-451-18685-0 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful!
Comment: This was my first 'short' regency romance and my first Carla Kelly book. I enjoyed it tremendously. The writing is fluid (thank you!), the story is original, and the characters are believable and well-developed. I cried for the soldiers who died. The descriptions of death and disease as a result of war were simple, but so real that you can't help but feel it. But mostly I chuckled and laughed out loud at Lydia's thoughts and actions. And thankfully, Major Sam Reed is no cardboard hero. He is brave and compassionate, but also somewhat of a liar (for certain reasons, he tells his family he married a nonexistant woman named Delightful Saunders and had a nonexistant child with her and talks Lydia into marrying him to save his tail!). I highly recommend this book! Very original. Very well-written. I had almost given up reading romance after some rather excruciating experiences with a hero and his manroot and another hero who was over-sexed to say the least. Well, I'm off to look for her other books!
Rating: 4
Summary: Enjoyable, touching story of two misfits
Comment: Again, Carla Kelly shows her distaste for the shallow world of balls and Regency characters obsessed only with clothes, money and titles; Sam and Lydia are two characters who find the world in which they live empty of any real feeling. Lydia hates accompanying her younger and more beautiful sister to social occasions, and Sam, despite being an Earl, insists on staying in a makeshift army hospital with the badly injured and dying men he commands. He meets Lydia when she and her sister join those Society men and women who visit the hospital; much to Lydia's disgust, her companions only want to stare. She, on the other hand, helps. And ultimately her insistence on helping out causes a major rift with her family...
I liked this less than other Kelly books, such as Mrs Drew Plays Her Hand and Reforming Lord Ragsdale; there is something in those two books which is simply haunting and unforgettable. In this book, I found Lydia's family members to be little more than one-dimensional caricatures, something which is certainly not the case in her other books.
I also couldn't understand why, after the mail coach was robbed, Sam didn't send for his friend, who *he* knew lived nearby. Instead, as he grew more ill, Lydia was forced to take desperate measures... all because, for some unknown reason, he didn't want his friend to know he was in the area. Silly, that.
So, overall, a rating of good, but...
Rating: 3
Summary: Good book, but with reservations...
Comment: This is even a very good book -- it started out really, really well, with the plight of the neglected soldiers of Waterloo & the heroine's efforts to help them; then somehow as it moved along there was something lacking about the characters & the story toward the end. Maybe it was the silliness of their having to pretend to have met in Spain & to be a family for the benefit of the Hero's family. I agree with the reviewer who said the heroine's family were like caricatures. I found myself skimming toward the end without really caring.
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Title: The Lady's Companion by Carla Kelly ISBN: 0451186842 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: One Good Turn (Signet Regency Romance) by Carla Kelly ISBN: 0451204824 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 05 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Reforming Lord Ragsdale (Signet Regency Romance) by Carla Kelly ISBN: 0451184653 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Summer Campaign (Signet Regency Romance) by Carla Kelly ISBN: 0451158369 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Mrs. McVinnie's London Season (Signet Regency Romance) by Carla Kelly ISBN: 0451165772 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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