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I was so swept away by this well-written story of two lives that I will probably just start babbling. But I will *try* to be coherent in exploring my love for these people and the gradual development of themselves and of the great love they would come to share.

Gabriel, now 35, lived a wretched young life and was sent away to sea at the age of 8. The horror continued, and he learned to survive. Upon reaching his majority, he received an anonymous bequest that ultimately enabled him to attain enormous wealth and success.

Verity, 26, plain, had one season but 'did not take' She's now relegated to the role of spinster and poor relation, demeaned and treated as a drudge by her family.

In a true moment of serendipity, these two souls meet.

Thus begins a moving, sometimes humorous, often heart-wrenching, story of how - just by being - Verity teaches Gabriel that there is one honest woman without wiles or artifice. And Gabriel, from experience born of a tortured childhood and youth, imparts spine to Verity and teaches her to really 'see' people.

We are engaged in a story that kept me intently reading page after page. Obviously, we come to know these two people well. But those surrounding them are also drawn in satisfying detail. There are no loose ends, and the piece is period-perfect.

Gabriel and Verity.....soulmates.

Beautifully written. Beautiful story.

I love this book. (end of babble) :)


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Fallen Angel Signet Regency Romance Charlotte Louise Dolan 9780451175014 Books Reviews

What an amazing story!

Usually when you read romance you`ll "hear" the voices of both the hero and the heroine but they will not be that different from one another - probably because they are both the voice of the author. In Fallen Angel the voices of Verity and Sherington are very different from one another and it makes for both great humor and great romance when you hear the inner changes in both characters.

Sherington is a very strict man, a man who imagines himself devoid of emotions and who wants a wife who does not manipulate, as he assumes all women do due to his relatives` and his mistress` machinations. He meets Verity and finds her to be honest and selfless and wants her to fall in love with him so they can marry. Verity is honest and selfless but she has relatives who are everything but. They are using her as the poor relative she is.

I loved seeing Sherington find more and more sides of Verity that he liked and I loved seeing him realize that he was in love with her. He was hilarious in his lack of politeness and his narrowminded drive to secure Verity as his wife. Verity was a great heroine, common and quite the gray spinster but she had a backbone when it came to Sherington. She quietly put him in his place even though she was in love with him very quickly.

This book is 20 years hold but has been rereleased as an ebook. It did not seem old, by far, but also didn`t have sex dripping down on every page as many romances written today have. It was a clever and smart book and one I can recommend to anyone who wants to laugh a little while reading and to anyone who likes to read quality romance.

And I`m off to check out more books by Charlotte Louise Dolan. She`s a new acquaintance to me.
Fleeing London after an argument with a spiteful aunt, Gabriel, the Earl of Sherrington, runs across a woman stranded at a burned out coaching inn. Despite his inclination to ignore her and keep moving, something about Miss Verity Jolliffe's straightfoward request and lack of feminine wiles compels him to drive her the short distance to her family's home. After a lengthy discussion of sheep, they arrive at her family's modest home, where Gabriel discovers an ill-tempered family to rival his own.

Upon picking her up for their return trip, he asks her why she should go to the trouble of caring for such a bunch of ungracious louts, as they'll certainly never mend their ways. When she explains that love is not given with the expectation of getting something in return, or with the aim of changing a loved one's ways, Gabriel has an idea. Marrying Verity would net him the perfect wife. She doesn't natter on about fashions or gossip and by her own admission she'd never try to manipulate him with her love. He resolves to court her when they reach London. He'll turn up the charm, make her love him and get both the perfect wife and revenge on his distasteful heir apparent in one fell swoop

While I guess it was just another jaded rake seeks biddable miss regency, I really liked the characters. Gabriel was an arrogant alpha, which I normally despise, but I found him completely likeable. Something about his brusque, brutal honesty endeared him to me. Sure he was domineering and demanding, but he was pretty clear about it. He says to himself that he's deceiving Verity, but I'd hardly rate "being a bit nicer than usual while courting a girl I fully intend to marry" as a grand deception. He's pretty much himself - a forceful personality who plays to win - from the start. All he leaves out is why he's courting Verity. So while he may not have initially been motivated by love, he's still not planning a bait and switch. He can tell himself he's a callous businessman just trying to close a deal, but only a man totally smitten gifts a heirloom cookbook to a woman who's said she loves managing a household.

For her part, Verity rather likes the big jerk just the way he is. I should have thought her a Pollyanna doormat for how she just took her family's ill treatment of her in stride. Somehow, she managed to look strong doing it. I'd guess it's because she didn't excuse their behavior or let it alter how she looked at herself. They were boorish, but they were her family, and 26 year old spinsters don't get a lot of options in the housing department. It made sense that she'd be attracted to the demanding but forthright Gabriel. After years of being manipulated by her family's false smiles and hollow praise as though she were some half-wit, she finds his open demands quite refreshing. When he also treats her like an actualized person by grumpily urging her to stand up to her family and stop being so damn meek, she's a goner.

They make a fine pair - he the hard-nosed power broker and she the quietly determined peace maker. I couldn't help but enjoy the book, well-worn premise or not.
I was so swept away by this well-written story of two lives that I will probably just start babbling. But I will *try* to be coherent in exploring my love for these people and the gradual development of themselves and of the great love they would come to share.

Gabriel, now 35, lived a wretched young life and was sent away to sea at the age of 8. The horror continued, and he learned to survive. Upon reaching his majority, he received an anonymous bequest that ultimately enabled him to attain enormous wealth and success.

Verity, 26, plain, had one season but 'did not take' She's now relegated to the role of spinster and poor relation, demeaned and treated as a drudge by her family.

In a true moment of serendipity, these two souls meet.

Thus begins a moving, sometimes humorous, often heart-wrenching, story of how - just by being - Verity teaches Gabriel that there is one honest woman without wiles or artifice. And Gabriel, from experience born of a tortured childhood and youth, imparts spine to Verity and teaches her to really 'see' people.

We are engaged in a story that kept me intently reading page after page. Obviously, we come to know these two people well. But those surrounding them are also drawn in satisfying detail. There are no loose ends, and the piece is period-perfect.

Gabriel and Verity.....soulmates.

Beautifully written. Beautiful story.

I love this book. (end of babble) )