Splendid
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4.2 • 102 Ratings
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
Based on the phenomenal growth of Quinn's popularity, and her four-week stint on the New York Times bestseller list with Romancing Mr Bridgerton, it's the perfect time to revisit Ms Quinn's 'splendid' storytelling.
American heiress Emma Dunster has always been fun-loving and independent with no wish to settle into marriage. She plans to enjoy her Season in London in more unconventional ways than husband-hunting. But this time Emma's high-jinks lead her into dangerous temptation...
Alexander Ridgely, the Duke of Ashbourne, is a notorious rake who carefully avoids the risk of love...until he plants one reckless kiss on the sensuous lips of this high-spirited innocent...and condemns himself to delicious torment. Little does he know that his passion has touched the very soul of the lovely enchantress...and committed them both to a lifetime of splendid ecstasy.
Customer Reviews
For first book was splendid
She’s talks about it being her first book and not her best work but I was hooked and read in 2 days . Now moving to get next one
Great start
For a first book, this is amazing. However, the most interesting parts of the story always involved the side characters, who I personally found infinitely more interesting than the two main characters. Emma was a decent character, but the female leads from a lot of Julia Quinn’s later works are much more complex and better written. Alex is a misogynist, which is kind of expected for the regency period, however the other male leads in other Julia Quinn books seem to have a very modern view of women, and when they don’t it feels like it’s for the sake of historical accuracy, so it’s quite easy to ignore. However Alex views women in a very negative way throughout the book for a very stupid reason, and never apologises for it or makes much an effort to change his ways, he just annoyed me for most of this book. This book isn’t bad, and great for a first book. Just wasn’t her best work to date, understandably.
Splendid
I can hardly believe this book was by
Julia Quinn. Mawkish, improbable, and too obviously written for the American readership. The English don’t have sidewalks, we have pavements. - so many other differences I can’t remember them now’! And do Americans always
drink whiskEy and not just whisky?otherwise the book was quite exciting. The usual slush.