Friendship and Folly: The Merriweather Chronicles Book I

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Dialogue is witty especially Cedric and the author can write authentically of the Regency period without those jarring modernisms which so frequently creep in in the hands of less-skilled writers.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. I am a life long fan of Jane Austin, and while I like the modern romances set in her time period I never thought to read a faithfull recreation of her language and style such as this.

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I am astonished, it was flawless. And what is more, it is spell binding, I was glued to my kindle and couldn't put it down. The twists and turns of a best friend who is interferes with the best of intentions, was wonderfully done, a lightly done tale without endless padding that will make you bite your lips next time you think you know what is best for someone else.

If you are looking for a bodice ripper romance this is not for you. It is a gentle tale of regency manners and misunderstandings. I enjoyed this book so much. It resonated of Jane Austen but reflected on other aspects of the culture at that time. A good story line kept me interested till the end. I particularly liked the inclusion of Methodist influence which gave a different atmosphere to the book without making it stuffy. And this is one. Although I think the author is American, she seems to have completely avoided those little discrepancies that are a giveaway to a Brit.

I fell in love with the Parry family and Ann is a fallible but engaging protagonist. My only disappointment is that although this is advertised as the first of the Merriweather Chronicles, no more seem to have appeared. I hope its appearance for the Kindle means another is on its way. See all 12 reviews. Would you like to see more reviews about this item? Most recent customer reviews.

Published on 9 June Published on 15 May Published on 22 April She's too pious, too nervous and weepy and just so annoying! I really wanted to slap her. Lenox is the most horrible unnatural mother. She's maybe supposed to be a Lady Katherine type but she's cruel and heartless. Even Lady Katherine could extol upon the virtues of her daughter.

The only character I felt I knew and liked was Sir Warrington. I do appreciate the author's attempts to publish the manuscript she found in her grandmother's trunk but this book is badly in need of Jane Austen's editor and that lady's wit and good sense.

I'm surprised and not by the unabashed endorsement of the other reviewers. While Friendship and Folly is certainly an enjoyable read it is by no means a five star book, at least not when compared to truly good writing. But I can totally see this author getting better, more polished and really achieving writing worth of fandom.

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The book's best attribute is its characters, especially Ann and Clive from whom the funniest lines and the most human frailty come from. I also enjoyed the unhurried descriptions and tangents the story takes now and again. The writing style is evocative of Austen and Heyer but not even approaching the level of these literary giants. Though I'd definitely read another book by the author. I liked it very well. And I might even reread it, which is the highest compliment I can pay it.

The three things I took issue with are as follows: The romance is not center stage. It's not even on stage.

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So much so that I had to reread a few incredibly long run on sentences up to three times. I wish Ann was the heroine, she is much more the stuff heroines are made of than Julia. I don't know how to classify it, it's not romance, comedy of manners, drama, comedy. It's good, I just don't know what it is.

Go ahead, buy it, you'll enjoy it. For those who care the language is clean and the bedroom door firmly shut. See all 67 reviews. Most recent customer reviews. Published 1 year ago. Published on August 19, Published on August 11, Published on January 26, Published on October 5, Published on October 1, Published on November 23, Published on November 3, Published on October 12, Published on September 14, Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.

Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. The Merriweather Chronicles Book I. Determined that my family was not going to lose such a link to its heritage on my watch, I soon appointed myself editor, and began devoting my spare time to typing those fading individual scripts into Times New Roman, and obediently Americanizing or modernizing all the words to which Spell Check objected. In the county of Warwickshire, just near enough to Stratford to take a proprietary interest in its immortal Bard, lies the principal seat of the Earls of Meravon.

Merrion, while he may have lacked honors, was not wanting in resource: James I was only too pleased to swell the privy purse with Merrion bounty--or booty, as some sticklers persisted in sneering behind their fans--and as the royal gratitude took the form of a barony, Lord Merrion had no complaints to make either. Thereafter he retired to his Warwickshire property, feeling that he had done well by his family name, and that it would be for posterity to build upon the foundation he had laid, preferably in the form of a castle fraught with turrets.

Posterity, however, was negligent: The Hall, completed in , was a severely geometrical structure, designed by Hooke, and without so much as a portico to redeem its austerity. The Merrions were in general a handsome family, with a tendency toward dark hair and light eyes, which, when one studies the portraits of the various spouses selected over the generations, seems almost to have been deliberately cultivated--though descendants decry this as a base suspicion.

Be that as it may, by the time of the fourth Earl, dark eyes were confined to distant cousins, and one may be tolerably sure that a Merrion mother, presented with a fair-haired infant, must have struggled with the sensation of having somehow failed either her ancestors, or her in-laws. It is this fourth Earl with whom we have to deal, though even as I begin my tale his dark hair has long since turned gray, and his blue eyes are frequently obscured by brows which, always marked and ominous, had of late years been inclined to sprout impetuously in all directions.

Julian Merrion was perhaps best described in the words of one who loved and endured him for years, his eldest granddaughter, Julia--who, as it happens, is also the heroine of this instructive little chronicle: I understand that as a boy he was remarkably sweet-tempered, until his brother died, making him the heir, and some officious individual convinced him that an earl had to possess a distinguishing characteristic, or be forever neglected in the annals of history. Many have discovered the tedium of maintaining active unreasonableness for long periods of time, and his lordship was no exception.

With the help of his wife--a lady possessed of an excellent understanding, and a spirit of implacable peacefulness--he was eventually able to exchange loud and senseless recalcitrance, for a more subdued willfulness, without loss of face. But correcting a fault without ever admitting its existence is a slow process at best, and most of his eight surviving children had ceased, very early on in their lives, to expect anything approaching rational thought from their father.

Seven of them had scattered to the four winds of marriage, army, law and clergy, and returned home only occasionally, and never without ready access to a carriage. Lady Frances, alone of all his daughters, did not fling herself into matrimony at the first combination of a good-natured smile and a handsome competence to meet her eye. She dwelt, instead, with seeming complacency at Merriweather, snipping roses and being gracious, until a certain Mr.