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Minx (Blydon Family Saga) (Blydon Family Saga)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Piatkus Books (2008-07-03)
ISBN: 0749939141
EAN: 9780749939144
Paperback: 400 pages
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Customer Reviews
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quality guaranteed
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-04-22
Minx was very well written but I am biast as love all JQ books. She writes with real passion but what I especially loved about this one was the treatment that she gave the hero & his interaction with the heroine. Just the dialogue which was very simply delivered but to the point was very effective. Made the 2 of them bounce off the pages. Even though Henry had a very limited upbriging she spoke her own mind & had her own beliefs & as she was so refreshing Dunford could not help but fall in love with her. The development of his feelings was a joy to read. Pure quality this......
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Charming
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-05-06
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
After brief, but brilliant, appearences in both 'Splendid' and 'Dancing at Midnight', William Dunford returns for a starring role of his own. Wealthy, handsome and irrepressibly charming, Dunford has always been a much sought after member of the 'ton', but when he comes into an unexpected title, life as he knows it is about to change. And not just because he's now even more eligible.
Henrietta ('call me Henry, everybody does') Barrett has been running the Stannage estate for years. She loves the life she leads, loves Stannage Park, love Cornwall and isn't about to let some society fop saunter in and ruin everything. So, even though Dunford is far from what she expected, she launches a campaign to drive him screaming back to London.
But Dunford isn't so easily fooled, and he sets about charming his young estate manager in a counter offensive of his own. For a young woman who wears breeches and lacks any knowledge of how to be a young lady, it's so nice for Henry to have someone pay attention to her. When he buys her new dresses, seeming to care for the person inside, she is so overwhelmed by his thoughtfulness that she can't help falling a little in love with him.
Dunford finds himself equally charmed by his little estate manager - until he discovers that she's his ward. Duty and responsibilty, both new concepts to him, crowd in to ruin the easy friendship that has grown between them.
Yet, when he drags Henry to London, it is him rather than her who soon begins to regret it.
This tale of transformation - from country hoyden to society miss, and carefree rake to responsible landowner - manages to combine humour, humiliation, love and heartbreak as both main characters discover that their previously perfect lives have in fact been flawed all along.
This tale is sweet and charming - although Henry's transformation is a little too quick and smooth, and as other reviewers mention, the 'conflict' is quite pointless - but in traditional JQ style, it's still enjoyable. For lighthearted Regency, you can't go far wrong.
(Oh, and fans of Ned Blydon should get hold of the 'Where's My Hero?' anthology, to see him find a HEA of his own.)
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Light and enjoyable read
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-08-21
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Henry is an independent woman but also insecure outside her domain in Cornwall. She wears mens clothing and knows nothing of the ton. Dunford however, upsets her life and security but arriving to view his unexepcted inheritace - Stannage Park - Henry's home. Initally she sets out to scare him off but after they make friends and he discovers she is his ward! he takes her to London.There begins the ugly ducking - beautiful swan story. And old one but always enjoyable to read (I am such a romantic!) As the other reviewers siad there are a number of misunderstandings. However, the only critisism I have is that they resolved the last conflict awfuly quickly. I just felt it needed more pages to adequately resolve. But a great book. I give it 4 stars in its genre.
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A wonderful book which I gobbled in one sitting
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-01-13
9 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
I disagree with the other readers with regard to the "conflict". Misunderstandings are all part of the genre. The characters are warm, fully developed and very funny. Move over Catherine Coulter - a new contender is entering the ring!
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Okay..
Rating (3)
Date: 1999-08-20
4 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
I agree with the previous reviewer.. the conflict was unnecessary.. it seems contrived. Sometimes placing this 'conflicts' seem to belong in a Mills and Boons novel. PS I liked the hero but grew irritated with the heroine
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Retail Price: £6.99
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