Christmas Angel – Company of Rogues 3 – Jo Beverley
Jun 15, 2018 14:27:10 GMT -7
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Christmas Angel – Company of Rogues 3 – Jo Beverley
Rating 4.0 / 5.0
Heat 4/10
Genre – Regency
This is my first Jo Beverley book (except for one DNF). I quite enjoyed it. The H is recently back from Waterloo (about one year maybe) and looking for a wife. He thinks himself unable to feel romantic love, so he is looking for a wife that won’t fall in love with him. He chooses a woman who is thought to be deeply mourning her late husband.
They immediately become engaged but choose to read the banns and wait the entire three weeks. It’s a rocky period of time for them. It almost gets called off at least once. The h has two children (11 and 6) who she worries about. She wants them to be happy in their new life too. All the characters were well done in this book. The kids were very important to the story and the strain they could put on a romantic relationship was realistically portrayed.
I’ll be honest and say I prefer a little more heat in my romance but it wasn’t the lack that bothered me so much as the constant building of tension with little to no resolution. There were only two scenes and one was a disappointment, to the h at least.
The fact that I had not read the two stories before this one in the series bothered me. It may not bother others but both previous couples appeared and hinted at the trials and tribulations of their own stories. I like this book enough that I will try to find the first two and read them.
Rating 4.0 / 5.0
Heat 4/10
Genre – Regency
This is my first Jo Beverley book (except for one DNF). I quite enjoyed it. The H is recently back from Waterloo (about one year maybe) and looking for a wife. He thinks himself unable to feel romantic love, so he is looking for a wife that won’t fall in love with him. He chooses a woman who is thought to be deeply mourning her late husband.
They immediately become engaged but choose to read the banns and wait the entire three weeks. It’s a rocky period of time for them. It almost gets called off at least once. The h has two children (11 and 6) who she worries about. She wants them to be happy in their new life too. All the characters were well done in this book. The kids were very important to the story and the strain they could put on a romantic relationship was realistically portrayed.
I’ll be honest and say I prefer a little more heat in my romance but it wasn’t the lack that bothered me so much as the constant building of tension with little to no resolution. There were only two scenes and one was a disappointment, to the h at least.
The fact that I had not read the two stories before this one in the series bothered me. It may not bother others but both previous couples appeared and hinted at the trials and tribulations of their own stories. I like this book enough that I will try to find the first two and read them.
