It’s such a good feeling to read a story from an author who not only understands this but also incorporates it into in her story. Because, however close one became to another person, one never became that person.Īhhhh. There were no certainties when one was married. They would have to want to be happy if they were to be so. Marriage was a living, dynamic relationship that must keep growing if it was to survive. Here’s one of my favorite bits from the story: I just love when stories show so clearly that while external circumstances play a role in the shaping of who we are, the stories that we tell ourselves about who we are are equally important too. That the trajectory of this marriage of convenience mirrors the path that the heroine takes as she comes to terms with who she was, and who she has become is one of my favorite parts about the book.
The interactions that Balogh makes us privy to between the heroine and her family with whom she’s had a fractious past rang true. We come to know that she is one who likes to keep herself emotionally aloof from those around her. lack of a martyr-ness and “goodliness” despite the offer he makes that made me warm up to him right away. Right in the beginning the hero, “who commanded respect entirely through the kindliness and integrity of his character,” realizes that here was a woman “whom, belatedly, he wished to know.” There’s something about that.
The hero was a friend of the heroine’s brother whose death has left our heroine destitute. It’s a marriage of convenience trope and one that is excellently executed (and since this was the third marriage of convenience trope that I read from Balogh I suspect it’s a favorite of hers). I want to talk a little bit about A Promise of Spring which features a heroine who is ten years older than the hero. Her characters have a story that is uniquely theirs. The number one thing that stands out for me across all these four stories is how different their protagonists are from each other! As a lover of historical romance who’s become weary of the sameness that pervades the genre, Balogh’s earlier books seem like a breath of fresh air. I want to go hunt up all her old books now!) (I’m pretty sure I’ve read some of Miss Balogh’s recent works too (I think it might be from the Simply series) but either I wasn’t in the right frame of mind for them or they didn’t hit the sweet spot in the way that her earlier books seem to be doing. Oh reader! I think I have found my new favorite regency romance author! I want to talk about Mary Balogh! I finished An Unlikely Duchess and ooh, I just loved it!īefore delving into An Unlikely Duchess though I quickly want to mention the three other Mary Baloghs that I’ve read and enjoyed in the recent past: A Christmas Bride, The Temporary Wife and A Promise of Spring.
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