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Studious Lady Daphne prefers her books over men, so when Lord Alexander Heathercott assumes his good looks will win her over, he'll soon realize how far he'll have to go to unlock her heart...

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1.0 out of 5 stars don't waste your time, Nov 17 2003

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S. Wartell "suzeeq9" (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lady Daphnes Diary (Paperback)

It feels a bit like piling on, but I must concur with most of the other reviewers of this book. It is dreadful.
I don't care how sheltered a child Daphne was, her over-reaction to seeing her brother-in-law committing adultry was just way over the top. I re-read the first chapter twice trying to figure out if there were more to the story - if for example, he had accosted her - but there is no indication of that. So the starting premise is utterly unbelievable to me. Nevertheless I pressed on, to encounter a hero who is one of the shallowest creatures in the world. The characters are inconsistant in their attitudes and behaviors, tedious in their opinions, and all together make for a very discouraging read. I kept hoping the story would take a turn for the better, but it never did.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful ninny and a brainless libertine???, July 7 2003

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B. S. Andrews "barbiesa" (Toledo, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lady Daphnes Diary (Paperback)

The heroine is a twenty-five-year-old spinster who is still traumatized ten years after seeing her wastrel brother-in-law commit adultery. Now if it had been SHE who had been the recipient of his adulterous attentions, I could understand how the experience might have warped her emotionally to such an extent that she would refuse to marry. But only a silly ninny would react in such a dramatic way TEN YEARS LATER to what she saw that day in the folly. You can almost hear the organ play whenever she refers to "the Secret" (note the capital S) that she fears will turn any potential husband against her.

The hero isn't credible either, being a rake and a libertine with the reputation of going after only the most beautiful women. After determining that Daphne is the most beautiful woman in existence--and that her background is somewhat doubtful--he determines to make her his mistress. It is only when his father--at the request of her dying grandfather--insists that he marry her that he even begins to consider the possibility of marriage to anyone, and then suddenly, he is in love and excited about having a family.

Why the hero's father--a duke--would comply with the grandfather's request to the extent that he would order his son to marry a girl with a murky background is another problem that is not adequately explained. The multitude of pregnancies and impending births at the end is rather overdone; I'd much rather see more development of the hero and heroine's relationship at that point.

Except for the references to characters in Ms. Oliver's other books, I would not have believed that this one was written by the same person. Could this be a case of identify theft?

And then there are the errors in referring to the titles of various noble characters, but one sees those in many of these novels.

But by far the biggest problem is that the most interesting character in this silly Regency is the diary!

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1.0 out of 5 stars What a twit, Sep 9 2002

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Patricia Walker (Lisbon, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lady Daphnes Diary (Paperback)

I bought this book on the strength of my previous enjoyment of Oliver's Corinthian series and on the interesting premise of the "dear Diary" device. However - I'm surprised I bothered to finish it. I can't believe in a heroine who is such a twit, nor in her equally silly relatives - it's as if they didn't really ask her what happened to her at 15; in these day's of realism and with many other authors tackling difficult subjects, I would have found this plot a LOT more interesting and believable if anything bad had acutally happened TO Daphne, rather than her just witnessing something shocking to her upbringing and expectations. Plus Alexander is a real jerk with his search for "beautiful" women. I found I didn't care at all what happened to the two of them. I read this book to the end to find out what happened to the secondary characters (from previous Oliver books that I enjoyed).
Don't waste your time and money on this one.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not up to calibre
I have to concur with the other reviews on this book. Daphne was a completely ninny, not at all up to the usual par of an Oliver heroine. Read more

Published on Aug 11 2002 by Talera Ristain

1.0 out of 5 stars *What* has happened to Patricia Oliver???
I have to concur with the other reviews here. This is one of the worst books I've read in a long time. Read more

Published on July 29 2002 by Dr W. Richards