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Web of Love (Web, Bk 2)
Web of Love - Web, Bk 2
Author: Mary Balogh
An enchanting beauty is torn between past love and present passion. — LOVE -- IN THE PRESENT TENSE — Enchanting young Ellen Simpson had been deeply in love with her husband Charles.  Though many years older, he was everything she wanted in a husband -- strong, gentle, kind, good-humored, and warmly devoted.  After his tragic death, she w...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780440243052
ISBN-10: 044024305X
Publication Date: 6/26/2007
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 211 ratings
Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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TruckerBarbie65 avatar reviewed Web of Love (Web, Bk 2) on + 52 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 6
I have skipped almost the first 1/4 of this book because I am finding it so hard to read. The way this book is written, my imagination can't even seem to put any emotion into the parts the characters "speak". They seem so emotionless. Almost like robots.

The first 1/3 of the book consists of the heroine telling her first husband how much she loves him...over and over and over and over again.

Phrases are repeated constantly...it's like she needed some filler.

When the characters are speaking to each other, face to face, they repeatedly say the other persons name. Example: "Oh, Charlie, you look wonderful." "You don't expect me to dance, do you, Ellen?" "No, Charlie, I know you don't like to." Who talks like that? You're looking at the person. Why do you need to say their name?

Needless to say, I do not like this book...and I haven't even finished it.
reviewed Web of Love (Web, Bk 2) on + 4 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
This is one of Mary Balogh's older books that was recently rereleased. I usually read her books with great enthusiasm, but I find this one wasn't as quick a read. Ellen and Dominic fall in love after Ellen's husband and Dominic's best friend, is killed at Waterloo. Although I liked the characters a great deal, it felt like the timing of the romance was off. It is hard to believe that they would get together when Ellen is so recently widowed, and Dominic can't even rise from his bed! Also, if you have read Balogh's book Slightly Tempted, you may feel as if you are reading some of the same material.

This is the second in the Web series, following the story of the Raine family.
reviewed Web of Love (Web, Bk 2) on + 1217 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Ellen Simpson loves her much older husband, but he dies at Waterloo. Their longtime friend, Lord Eden, is seriously hurt at the same battle, but Ellen nurses him back to health, & they consumate their mutual attraction.
She is wracked with guilt & they try to stay away from each other when they return to England. But true love must run its course - eh? If you like this author, this is typical of her genre (It was a bit too lengthy and repetitive for me, though)
lilysgigi28 avatar reviewed Web of Love (Web, Bk 2) on + 15 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
fun suspenseful very entertaining
reviewed Web of Love (Web, Bk 2) on + 48 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
very good book, made me have to read all of the WEB books.
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dizz avatar reviewed Web of Love (Web, Bk 2) on + 646 more book reviews
I see many reviewers have disliked this book because it isn't as tightly written as more modern romances are. I say it's worth reading because at this longer length we get more of Balogh's idiosyncratic but polished writing style (she was an English teacher) and that's good for the brain :)

Readers should bear in mind that this is the second book in a trilogy, but unlike most modern trilogies, it doesn't exactly go forward in time; instead each book covers many of the same events but seen from different points of view. I like the trilogy and consider it a classic - but readers used to the bangbangbang fast cut get to the good parts style of writing in vogue now might well find it tedious.

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