- Hardcover: 598 pages
- Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (April 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1410425452
- ISBN-13: 978-1410425454
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.5 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 771 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: An Impossible Attraction (Mass Market Paperback)
The first Brenda Joyce book I read was The Perfect Bride and I truely enjoyed it. I've enjoyed others about the de Warenne family too, but this book left me cold. The hero is truely unlikable and the story is trite. The side story about the dowager duchess was more compelling than the main story. The steamy scenes were not steamy, they were rushed and forgettable. The hero commits the cardinal sin of being unfaithful multiple times, after having been with the heroine. To top it all off, although the ending is predictable, the hero never actually gets around to saying those three most important words. I actually went back and read the ending again thinking maybe I'd just missed it but no, they were not there. We know he feels it but the heroine never hears him say it. Did you forget that part Ms. Joyce, or just run out of time?
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3.3 out of 5 stars (31 customer reviews) 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Really wanted to like it but the heroine was just too weak, 2.5 stars,
By Melissa - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Impossible Attraction (Mass Market Paperback)
In the past I have hugely enjoyed Brenda Joyce's de Warenne novels. This family had brave heroes and heroines and their mates were interesting and likeable. This author's latest novel, An Impossible Attraction, does not meet these standards, instead the heroine is weak and the hero too controlling.Heroine Alexandra Bolton is a Victorian Cinderella, totally duty bound to her father and two sisters after the death of her mother. To her credit her sisters are kind hearted but her father is a wastrel and a drunk but Alexandra is forgiving of his misdeeds and worse an enabler, making excuses for his actions. She is set to marry an older gentlemen, hand picked by her father but her plans are interrupted by hero Stephen Mowbray, the Duke of Clarewood, who assists her at a ball when her father proceeds to get drunk. She is attracted to the handsome Duke immediately. Stephen pursues Alexandra. She is flattered but determined to marry her older gentleman but when vicious gossip causes problems for her she turns to Stephen who is willing to make her his mistress but not his wife. Stephen is duty bound to his estate and in many ways to the ghost of his hard hearted father. I had a difficult time warming up to Stephen as he was incredibly stubborn and arrogant. Alexandra went through phases in this novel. She began this story as a martyr for her family, then became independent (I liked this part of her story best, when she tried to make it on her own) then back to being an uncertain irrational woman. Several times she shakes and trembles around the hero and this is not in passion but in terrible anxiety. She is almost immobilized with fear around him and cannot answer simple questions. What I did like in this story was the blooming romance between Stephen's mother and a rough rancher from California. This tale was sweet and the growing feelings between these characters were very nicely written. Theirs was a romance with maturity (and not just because they were an older couple) and respect. Stephen and Alexandra's romance was rather on the boring side. Alexandra was too frightened of her feelings for Stephen and he seemed distant from Alexandra for most of the novel. I never understood why he liked her and why she was championed so heartily by his family. 14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
I can't believe I read the whole thing.,
By Old Latin teacher - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Impossible Attraction (Mass Market Paperback)
I would give this one star but it seems so mean-spirited. And if I were to listen to the advice of the father of Bambi's friend Thumper, I would not be writing this review at all. I am hard-pressed to find something good to say about this book. Maybe the obvious warm affection and loyalty among the members of the de Warenne clan? That's good. But not enough to make this cliche-ridden story with one-dimensional characters worth reading. I like to read a romance for the romance and developing love between H and H. I failed to find anything but lust in this one. How the silly heroine decided she was in love with the irrational hero is beyond me. There was no attempt by the author to allow the reader to see their immediate physical attraction to each other develop into a deeper relationship. This review is probably not a useful one. Apparently I just needed to vent.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Boring read from a good author,
By ng "romance reader in nyc" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Impossible Attraction (Mass Market Paperback)
I used to really like Brenda Joyce, even some of the earlier de warenne stories... this one unfortunately was dull to the point of me not wanting to finish. I eventually got through it, but skimmed probably the last 75 pages.
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