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Ambersley (Lords of London, #1)
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This historical English countryside childhood romance story has been lurking on my kindle for a few years. I finally randomly read it and it was weird, quick read.
Cross dressing girl pretends to be a boy for more then a decade with some secret bastard missing child scenarios.
So we get an evil stepmother type that tries to ruin everything and damages all the children in her entourage so perhaps it was good that the missing heiress 'Johnny' lives with the kindly gardener's family while growing up although she is very very young when she does eventually marry the new Duke, Lord Derek Vaughan. Lady Johanna is lost in the woods after a fatal fire kills all her family and most of the servants when she is four years old, which would be the only excuse that the neighborhood wouldn't immediately identify the child so when Derek is searching for her for many many years while building a friendship with the gardener's 'son' at the Duke's estate, Ambersley. Evil stepmother does her evil plotting thing and Derek figures out that Johnny is actually a woman (well, teenager young lady) and then the romance part of the story begins about 2/3 into the book.
The story had a lot of drama, death threats and fire, but I still found a it missing any stakes that made me worry about the characters.
288 pages and kindle freebie
2 stars
Cross dressing girl pretends to be a boy for more then a decade with some secret bastard missing child scenarios.
So we get an evil stepmother type that tries to ruin everything and damages all the children in her entourage so perhaps it was good that the missing heiress 'Johnny' lives with the kindly gardener's family while growing up although she is very very young when she does eventually marry the new Duke, Lord Derek Vaughan. Lady Johanna is lost in the woods after a fatal fire kills all her family and most of the servants when she is four years old, which would be the only excuse that the neighborhood wouldn't immediately identify the child so when Derek is searching for her for many many years while building a friendship with the gardener's 'son' at the Duke's estate, Ambersley. Evil stepmother does her evil plotting thing and Derek figures out that Johnny is actually a woman (well, teenager young lady) and then the romance part of the story begins about 2/3 into the book.
The story had a lot of drama, death threats and fire, but I still found a it missing any stakes that made me worry about the characters.
288 pages and kindle freebie
2 stars
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July 23, 2015
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July 23, 2015
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July 23, 2015
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