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3.0étoiles sur 5
good and bad, Aoû 7 2003
When I read the back cover of this book I was intrigued. The thought that two people could be so instantly attracted made me wonder what exactly this story would entail. I was annoyed to find out it was just a more condensenced version of a not very original story.Tess Warfield is and heiress, Nicholas Talmage is a wealthy man who is struggling to find a wife to appease his grandmother. The problem is that their two families have been fighting since Tess's great-grandfather abducted the soon-to-be wife of Nicholas's own grandfather. It's not as good a story as it sounds or could have been. Shirlee Busbee, like any author, writes to somewhat of a formula and you can see that this book is truly an almost annoyingly precise compact version. Characters are not developed enough and are not very complex, situations (especially the few ending scenes) are insultingly simply and the reader would have to be fairly naive to think they were even plausible. Foreshadowing also seems to have lost some of its subtly here. Tess's resemblence to her great-grandmother and Nicholas's resembles to woman's former lover and hoped husband to be is repeated over and over and it didn't take much to have the basic plot of the story figure out in a few chapters. The chemistry between Nick and Tess is interesting but there is no conflict between the two. They are drawn together and for the most part accept it. They marry and then proceed to unravel the "mystery" of what happened to Nick's grandfather and Tess's great-grandmother who supposedly ran away together with the Talmage diamonds. The read has it figured out pretty quickly what happened to the pair as well as a few of the other supposed plot twists thrown in. Such as the identity of the "Mr. Brown." A spy Nick has been hunting out. This is not a bad light read but it's definitely not one of Busbee's best. The chemistry and love scenes are there but the book fizzles half way through.
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