Loved it. One of this author's best! The hero was exceedingly human in his absolute utter frustration with the heroine throughout the book. Frequently made me laugh out loud - the genuine-ness of his exasperation. A lot of fun to read!

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Good book, although I prefered Balogh's Slightly serious better. The main female character in this book is whiney and bossy. I wasnt really endearing....

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Loved this book. This is the first of the Simply Quartet series revolving around the teachers of Miss Martin's School for Girls. The remaining three books, in order, are: "Simply Love", "Simply Magic" and "Simply Perfect".

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First book in the "simply" series and it is simply wonderful! I have been sidetracked with paranormal books and some of the historial books have not given me the escape I like to experience when I read. THIS book did. It could have been the typical "opposite attract" story but instead it pulls you in and you want the happy ending more than the characters do. Plus it has the added fantasy of being pursued, and pursued and pursued until you have to give in...ahhhh, gotta love that!

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I thought the hero was too good for the heroine, but I loved the book overall. Balogh never misses!

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Mary Balogh is one author I can rely on to provide a charming story. This isn't one of them. This story is fairly turgid and overblown. At least one hundred pages could have easily been cut with no loss. The characters were fairly uninteresting. So many unlikely things happened in this story that I had trouble finishing the book.

Viscount Lucis Marshall and Frances Allard, a teacher in Bath, meet during a terrible snowstorm. When they take rooms in a fairly shady country inn, they share a night of passion. I thought that was so unlikely as to be ridiculous. Of course, they part the next day because of their responsibilities. Lucis has made a promise to his grandfather to marry soon and Frances is a dedicated teacher in a boarding school. Naturally, they meet again. Eventually, Lucis offers for Frances and she turns him down, again and again. But Frances has a secret. By the time the secret is revealed, I couldn't have cared less.

I just found out that this series is about the teachers of Miss Martin's School for Girls. Obviously, this one is about the music teacher, Frances Allard. I've already read the last book of this series and wasn't impressed with it either.

SimplyQuartet
** 1. Simply Unforgettable (2005)
2. Simply Love (2006)
3. Simply Magic (2007)
4. Simply Perfect (2008)

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Good, believable characters; holds interest

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This book was so disappointing. It's full of cliches and ridiculous behavior. You have the virgin schoolmarm who is beautiful but doesn't know it and the high society rake who must marry a high born lady to pacify his grandaddy. These two conveniently get stranded together (without chaperone) during a snowstorm and within what seems like hours decide to have sex because, well, you can only make so many snowmen in a day, eh? Did I mention that she was a virgin? But the worst sin of this book is the fact that the writing is so freaking boring. This author usually excels at characterization and character motivation but this time it feels like she wrote it while on auto-pilot and it makes me so very sad.

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