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Just Like Heaven (Smythe-Smith Quartet, #1)

Julia Quinn

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Jun 07, 2017 Adrienne rated it really liked it

Shelves: type-ebook, lib-nypl, 2017-new

Definitely one of the best executions of the known-since-childhood-and-then-one-day! trope I've ever read. I think the one day! part could have been more drawn out and better built, but it really worked for me overall. Julia Quinn is really good at writing lovely men, something that I actually better understand now after hearing her talk about this. She is also great at building up interesting heroines--here, a loyal, family-driven Honoria.

I'm also now wondering if I should re-read the Bridgerto ...more

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Apr 30, 2012 Nadine in NY Jones rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-romance, era-regency

My first Kindle book! Quite delightful, exactly what you expect from Ms Quinn. The perfect airplane read :-)

In this one, we have Miss Honoria Smythe-Smith, who has known Earl somethingorother Marcus for most of her life, since he's been best friends with her brother from school days. They realize they are attracted to each other, he injures himself (involving a fake mole hole Honoria dug, and a sloppy valet) and requires round-the-clock care from her, they fall in love, they don't admit it to ea ...more

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Feb 16, 2011 Sara ♥ rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, 2011, historical

This book was really cute, but there just wasn't enough action for me, you know? Like a LOT of their love story is internal... and I guess I wanted to see them interact more... in different circumstances.

Okay, so Honoria Smythe-Smith is a Smythe-Smith. She plays violin... badly, and she knows it. But it's a family tradition that she's proud to be a part of, so she smiles through, despite causing Mozart to roll over in his grave. But that doesn't matter so much yet.

Marcus Holroyd, Earl of Chatter This book was really cute, but there just wasn't enough action for me, you know? Like a LOT of their love story is internal... and I guess I wanted to see them interact more... in different circumstances.

Okay, so Honoria Smythe-Smith is a Smythe-Smith. She plays violin... badly, and she knows it. But it's a family tradition that she's proud to be a part of, so she smiles through, despite causing Mozart to roll over in his grave. But that doesn't matter so much yet.

Marcus Holroyd, Earl of Chatteris, has never really had any family around (just a father who ignored him), and he just doesn't really know what to say to people, how to interact, etc. He's shy. So when he met Daniel Smythe-Smith, who came from a VERY LARGE family (4 or 5 siblings and a TON of cousins), and was very socially comfortable, he latched on (in a non-leach way). Daniel invited him to come home for holidays, etc., and he always went, and he really enjoyed the time he spent with the S-S family. Daniel's little sister, Honoria, was constantly trying to tag along with Daniel and Marcus, and they called her "Bug" growing up. (She was the youngest in her family by like 6 years, so she was kinda alone a lot, too.)

But then after school, Daniel ended up getting in a duel and seriously injuring the other guy and that guy's dad went berserk, and Daniel had to flee to the continent. And just before he left, he asked Marcus to watch out for Honoria and make sure that she doesn't end up marrying anyone crappy (which she doesn't know). So for the last two years or so that Honoria's been out, she's seen Marcus around a lot, but he mostly scowled a lot in her direction (at the men hanging around with her). Anyway, where am I going with this? But they haven't REALLY spent time together. And this description is getting out of control. Suffice it to say, Marcus becomes very very ill and Marcus has no family (his dad's dead by this point) and Honoria and her mother go to his house to tend to him. And during the course of his recovery, he and Honoria end up falling in love.... But there are complications (of course)... And there has to be a Smythe-Smith concert in there, too.

Anyway, like I said... it just didn't move very quickly. The first 100 pages are kinda setting things up to get the hero and heroine together, then the next 150 pages, Marcus is sick and confined to bed, and then the last 100 pages, there's finally some stuff that happens. The concert, etc. in London. It was good. I liked it... I just would have liked the proportion being a bit different. And I really quite liked Marcus. I like the idea of a shy guy who ISN'T out sleeping with every woman under the sun before he gets married. A reformed guy is lovely, but I'd rather a guy who isn't a womanizer, thank you very much. :) ...more

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Mar 16, 2013 Sara ♥ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: romance, audiobook, challenge-audio-2500-2019, 2015, 2019, historical, 2013, regency-georgian, england, 2017

November 18-19, 2024

Wanted to read something lovely for my birthday! :)

March 4-6, 2020

One of my favorites....

June 7-8, 2019

I just love Honoria and Marcus!!! ♥♥♥

March 17-18, 2017

February 1-2, 2015

I love this book.... I think it's my favorite in the series....

April 29-30, 2013

Couldn't stop myself from listening to this one again, even though I just did like a month ago! :)

March 16-17, 2013

WOW. I wrote a LOT in my other review, and I'd hate to take away from it, so here's the link. The narrator was ...more

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