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I think Loretta Chase is Miss Wonderful herself. Her books are wonderful and her writing is brisk and engaging. I love her characterization of Alistair and Mirabel. Mirabel is a great character and is another strong heroine. Their romance had a nice pace and the love scenes were warm and sweet.
On the negative side, Alistair is written as such a self-centered, superficial dandy it is hard to imagine why anyone, and especially Mirabel, would give him the time of day. It is all resolved and explained in the end - but his personality as the rather vain and somewhat feminine-sounding (in his deep focus on fashion) is off-putting for me. She balances it with his physical injury and war heroism, which is the only way you could get away with a character like this, but I was still troubled by him.
Good book but not my favorite.
On the negative side, Alistair is written as such a self-centered, superficial dandy it is hard to imagine why anyone, and especially Mirabel, would give him the time of day. It is all resolved and explained in the end - but his personality as the rather vain and somewhat feminine-sounding (in his deep focus on fashion) is off-putting for me. She balances it with his physical injury and war heroism, which is the only way you could get away with a character like this, but I was still troubled by him.
Good book but not my favorite.
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