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Lost in a Royal Kiss. I enjoyed having a gentleman doctor for a hero. It was a bit different and put a new spin on the problems faced in an aristocratic relationship. He was also a good man, which is why I initially doubted his attraction to Bathsheba.
His first interaction with her came when she was at her meanest. Snarkiness and bluntness are one thing; needless, undeserved insults are another. Once she mellows out, though, the book improves. Bathsheba eventually becomes moderately likeable, if not endearing, and grows as a character. I also loved that Bathsheba is not afraid of loving smex. There is chemistry between them and it was always hot hot hot! So as you can see, this book started a bit rocky for me but by the end I just couldn't stop reading.
This is a great story, with lots of twist and turns and enough suspense to surprise you in the end. I give My Favorite Countess 4 Bookies Sep 30, Lisa rated it really liked it. This is actually my first Vanessa Kelly book. My Favorite Countess is a historical romance and a continuation of sorts from some of Vanessa's other books.
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I think you can feel a sense of this reading the book but it didn't interfere much with the story. Widowed Bathsheba is in a bad way. She's almost out of money and is struggling to maintain appearances as The Countess of Randolf. Her husband was killed and left her mountains of debt and two estates to maintain. She is full of secrets as well. Her husband abused her and she has a secret sister everyone thinks as dead among other things.
Dr John Blackmore is a accoucher or a male midwife. He has some secrets of his own as well. John meets Bathsheba at a dinner party right before Bathsheba is to head back to London to search for a rich man to wed to save her. Although Bathsheba treats everyone to her sharp tongue he is still intrigued by her. Instead of heading to London Bathsheba learns that her sister who already suffered a terrible fever years ago that left her permanently impaired is sick again.
She runs off to stay with her and 4 days later arrives back at her place is the country with the same terrible fever. Dr Blackmore comes to the rescue. You're not really sure at all you are going to like Bathsheba. She kind of abrupt and mean and if you haven't read the previous book she was in you still get the sense she did something pretty bad to someone. Slowly as the book progresses you find out who she is behind all that sometimes nasty demeanor. Why she is like that and that it isn't really who she is. John i think is the only man who could find the real Bathsheba and he feels like she needs his help no matter what she says.
They kind of keep bouncing off one another until all their secrets finally come out. Bathsheba redeems herself to old enemies and to herself in the end. John makes some revelations about himself and Bathsheba as well. You wonder how their going to work it out at all. I think i need to go back and check out her back list for the titles that went with this one. Jul 05, Vina Raintree rated it it was amazing.
Ceritanya mengalir dengan menakjubkan. Vanessa Kelly termasuk pengarang baru yang diterbitkan oleh penerbit Indonesia. Sayangnya buku yang ternyata adalah edisi Straton buku ke-3 ini diterbitkan yang pertama. Sempat curiga saat baca ada kejadian kejadian tipikal hubungan buku sebelumnya. Tapi overall buku ini bagusss banget.
Dimulai dari John Blackmore- seo Ceritanya mengalir dengan menakjubkan. Dimulai dari John Blackmore- seorang dokter yang dikenal sebagai malaikat kematian- tidak berhasil menyelamatkan nyawa dalam persalinan ibu dan bayi seorang Irlandia-kemudian mendapat kecaman dan tuduhan dari si ayah.
Berlanjut ke seorang janda cantik muda bernama Bathsheba-jarang pernah denger ada nama seaneh ini- Countess Randolph yang mestinya kaya raya menjadi miskin setelah berbagai macam investasi buruk. Bathsheba berniat mencari suami untuk memperbaiki kemiskinan yang dialaminya sekarang. Tadinya sih begitu tujuannya. Sampai dia bertemu dengan John Blackmore. Sekali lihat saja ya ada ketertarikan yang besar diantara mereka. Bathsheba yang notabene sebenarnya adalah perempuan agak angkuh jadi seperti agar-agar dan bisa merona kembali seperti gadis muda.
Yah satu hal berlanjut ke hal lainnya- Intinya Bathsheba agak ragu juga nerima lamaran John. Selain John itu nggak seberapa kaya karena dia adalah dokter yang cenderung suka jalan jalan di perkampungan kumuh dan memberikan jasanya secara gratis tapi juga Bathsheba memikirkan tentang adiknya yang sakit dan membutuhkan biaya perawatan di pedesaan. Kejadian Meredith saat melahirkan itu point klimaksnya.
Jun 08, Amanda Ryan rated it liked it. My Book Pimp offered to hook me up with it, and I accepted because of the review this person wrote. The kicker of this book is that our heroine, Ms. Bathsheba is really, really very hard to like. The things she says…yikes. Bathsheba is most likely the antagonist in a typical romance. So it was interesting to watch her tough and antagonizing shell melt away around John. Blackmore has the patience of a frickin saint. She presents her bad-ass side as a facade to hide her deep hurt and deceit from her previous and deceased husband.
Blackmore excavates her burrowed emotions and manages to coax her, very slowly, out from behind her mask. But he gets bitten many, many times. I was curious about the history of medical care in the regency time period, and this was an interesting, if not horrifying, look into it. Overall, My Favorite Countess was a fun, fluffy read. Oct 31, Trudy Miner rated it really liked it. However, while she was there, her nephew, the new Count of Randolph, convinces her to attend some of the local festivities which she's sure will bore her to tears. At one such event, Bathsheba meets Dr.
John Blackmore, a well-known London physician who was also visiting in the area. Immediately smitten with the beautiful Bathsheba, John pursues her but she will have nothing to do with him even though they are attracted to each other.
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But life has a way of changing things and upon their return to London, both find that they need to depend on each other. Soon it's Bathsheba coming to his defense and then no longer can she deny her feelings for John. I didn't read the book where Bathsheba first made her appearance so I had no preconceived notions about her; however, she was pretty shallow in the beginning except for her love for her sister and her absolute fear of being poor again. John is a man of principal, devoted to seeing women in the stews have access to maternity care; this is costing him his medical standing among the more conservative doctors of his time.
That these two got together makes for a really good love story! Nov 14, Eric Renoult rated it really liked it. May 12, Kara-karina rated it really liked it. Very good read, with few minor flaws. It was fascinating to read about a doctor in Victorian era, especially about a man-midwife accoucher. The characters had layers and were willing to compromise for each other which is always a big plus in my book. The author managed to avoid some of the most horrible cliches in historical romances, and I really wanted to explore the world and the characters she described further.
John Blackmore, a physician, and not some rich corinthian in disguise rebelling a Very good read, with few minor flaws. John Blackmore, a physician, and not some rich corinthian in disguise rebelling against his family. He is also not a rich bachelor. He's got a modest income. Bathsheba is an impoverished countess, who isn't a prude but not the wanton society believes she is.
She is desperate to find a rich husband to help her family to stay out of debt although she is not obliged to do it. They can help themselves. Sheba has also had her weaknesses, she is araid of all sorts of illnesses and has to fight her fear because she loves John and wants to understand what he does and why he does it. She is not stupidly brave, but she's got courage and kind heart.
She also admits freely that she doesn't want to be poor and needs security for her and her family which I found very much in character with spirit of time. Overall, a very easy pleasurable and interesting book. I would be happy if Vanessa Kelly writes about a friend of John Blackmore, who is an another doctor: Une femme, qui plus est. May 10, Gaile rated it really liked it Shelves: This is a erotic novel with a great plot!
Bathsheba needs to marry a fortune to settle her debts after her marriage to an abuser ends with his death in an accident. Untitled John Blackmore is from an ancient moneyed family but Bathsheba doesn't know that. Doctors were not considered prestigious people at that time. Although both fight their attraction they give in every time only to have something else come between them. John wants to practice for free in the slums. Meanwhile there are jealous p This is a erotic novel with a great plot! Meanwhile there are jealous people determined to ruin him. Lady Bathsheba Randolph has her own secrets.
This is quite a romp with comedy, danger, human failings and erotic romance all woven cleverly together. My only complaint with this novel is the author's naming of the heroine. No one living at that time would have name their daughter Bathsheba. I wish authors of Regencies would take more time and thought on naming their heroines.
What may sound romantic to the author may put the reader completely off. Another name such as Sheila would not have put me off the novel so much but all the way through reading this, the name of the heroine kind of messed up an otherwise excellent novel for me. Jan 28, Krista rated it really liked it Recommended to Krista by: I particularly enjoyed that the heroine is the one who starts off seeming like a [jerk] and the hero is a thorough do-gooder who helps her become her best self.
I love me some bad boy heros, but I've read too many stories lately where it was the other way around so this was a great change of pace. I liked that the heroine becomes a better person without totally changing her personality. I also liked that the hero has a profession doctor, and he specializes in what will become obstetrics instea I particularly enjoyed that the heroine is the one who starts off seeming like a [jerk] and the hero is a thorough do-gooder who helps her become her best self.
It was interesting to read about some of the medical practices of the time, even if I have a niggling feeling that some of that information is not entirely accurate. Nothing was so wrong that it made me want to tear my hair out, except for the mismatch between the heroine's RED hair and the clearly yellow-haired, not even strawberry-blond woman on the cover. Why do publishers do that?! I haven't read any of the other books in this series yet, but the references to previous events were explained briefly and clearly enough that it didn't get in the way at all.
May 16, Catherine rated it liked it. My Favorite Countess Overall, I enjoyed this book. The hero is everything a hero should be However, I found the character of Bathsheba rather annoying, she is so physically perfect and stunning! As the book progressed, I began to appreciate her good qualities, though, and genuinely wanted things to work out well for her future. She felt faint and weak so many times I actually thought she was pregnant, and was My Favorite Countess Overall, I enjoyed this book. She felt faint and weak so many times I actually thought she was pregnant, and was quite disappointed that she wasn't!
I hope this is not a spoiler. As for the sex scenes, well, the first time the sex was described was fine, but I got a bit bored with the subsequent descriptions. They seemed to do the same things but in a slightly different sequence.
In my opinion the author might just as well have said "Once again they had steamy, sticky sex till both were sated. Her books have finaled in numerous contests, and she was named by Booklist as "one of the new stars of historical romance. Vanessa is beginning a new Scottish historical romance series called Clan Kendrick, a spin-off from her last book, The Highlander's Princess Bride. Find her on the web at www. Other books in the series. The Stanton Family 4 books.
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