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Although I enjoy Amanda Quick and have well over two dozen of her books, I rated this just okay because I found myself putting it down frequently and it was into the third day before I actually completed reading it. I suspect I need to stick to the books with one word titles. I read this work along with "Wicked Widow" and "With this Ring". As with the Wicked Widow, the characters were involved in a mystery that is surrounded in the "ancient philosophy and the fighting arts of Vanza". The work is characteristic and pure Amanda Quick- strong women, able men with honor and seemy underbellies with nasty villians. The readable text and vivid descriptions, dialogue etc are interesting and difficult to predict so that the reader is never really bored, but Vanza is presented as a cheap imitation of Kung Fu and I have never been a Bruce Lee fan.
The second detraction is that the hero and the heroine are involved in an association that drags with the pretense that there is no attraction and there is a power push-pull that gets a little old until the very end because each does not acknowledge the connection. At one point when the hero wants to search an apothecary shop late at night and refuses to let her accompany him. She threatens to go without him. No intelligent female, no matter how brave, is going to rattle through the slums of London on a foggy night, all alone. And in this book, the nights are always foggy. Since the "season" is generally in late spring/early summer that bit is a tad too convenient to be believable. I will admit that I prefer them to either acknowledge the personal relationship early and work together on the mystery while trying to keep the attractions from interfering, or to be that odd couple that knows what the other is thinking, just disagrees on how to proceed. This book is only one of a few that actually puts the heroine in trousers to climb in and out of dark alleys and climb through tunnels and so that is fun.


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I Thee Wed Vanza Amanda Quick 9780553574104 Books Reviews

Great read as usual
This is my favorite Amanda Quick book. I decided to purchase it for my kindle after my paper back book fell apart from me reading it so many times. I love that the H is kind and has integrity. And the h is spunky and realistic. These are people that I would actually like to meet. I would definitely recommend this book.
I love the Amanda Quick novels! Her stories are great suspense and romance!
I read this in less than 24 hours - started at 8 PM one night, and finished at noon the next day (and did get some sleep, bathe some kids, do some grocery shopping,etc. in between!) SO...it's not a taxing read (great literature) by any means, but I'm embarrassed by how much I enjoyed it. Unlike others, I do find the chemistry totally believeable between the main characters - and I liked the story very much. I'm a mystery lover, so I will admit the mystery is a bit weak - however the rest of the story is a terrific read.
Just love the way the story has mystery suspense & a romantic almost old fashion love story you do not want to put the book down
This is a book that had potential but was sadly left lacking. Unlike the early novels of her career Amanda Quick (Jayne Ann Krantz) seems have forgotten the setting she was writing in for historicals.

Spoilers Below

Eddison is the wealthy bastard grandson of a titled Lady Victoria Exebridge. We never learn Lady Victoria's title or any mention of what distant relative inherited the family title after Eddison's wastrel father croaked. Supposedly his grandmother retained the estates and has no other family. Instead, all we learn is that Eddison spent his childhood ostracized by his paternal family only to go off to the Far East and acquire a fortune that saved his grandmother from bankruptcy and delivered him to social acceptability. A governess' bastard child would not have been accepted in the ton no matter how much money he had, especially when it was known he had acquired that wealth in trade.

I cannot fault Emma's circumstances. Poorer ladies of the ton did seek positions as paid companions and as such bordered on the realm of acceptability. You could have a Cinderella story with them and yes they did fall victim to creeps like Chilton Crane. But Emma seems to forget how Society would truly perceive her faults in reputation while blathering on about getting her employer's reference.

And thus we have a decent story brewing until the novel uses the precept of their false engagement and bedtime indiscretion to cover a murder. If Emma (the paid companion) had been discovered in the bed of a gentleman during a house party they would be obliged to marry on the spot. Not able to conduct a public courtship in London Society. The fact that Emma doesn't acknowledge that but instead spends much of the book going on about the situation as if its a job and needing a reference shows quick's forced disregard of the social norms.

The love scenes, unfortunately, have adopted Quick's moniker... brief and inconsequential. After bringing the characters together in their first intimate encounter, the author quickly abandons the idea of it. Instead the characters consume themselves with the mystery rather than the complications of a very real romantic relationship between them and effect on virtue. Emma allows herself to be seduced and then we're supposed to believe she can continue to think of her situation as a part time employment?

Reading this novel makes you long for the days of Jared & Emily (Seduction) which had a wife seeking her husband's love and trust. Or Lucas & Victoria (Surrender) which had a fortune hunting husband falling in love with his intended victim. Even the similarly Gothic mystery of Sebastian & Prudence (Dangerous) had a selection of amateur investigators who fall prey to love (and see the couple married mid-way through when the couple's intimacy threatened their reputations).

This novel would have been much better if Eddison had been the legitimate grandnephew who inherited the family title & fortune, and if Emma had been obliged to marry him soon after the events of Ware Castle. Perhaps string out the romance question with an agreement that the marriage would be in name only and the couple would part after a divorce.
Once again I became entangled in the world Ms. Quick created. The mystery was exciting and as I tried to solve it I guessed wrong more than once. The love story believable and just as exciting as the mystery. Another tittle for my read again list.
Although I enjoy Amanda Quick and have well over two dozen of her books, I rated this just okay because I found myself putting it down frequently and it was into the third day before I actually completed reading it. I suspect I need to stick to the books with one word titles. I read this work along with "Wicked Widow" and "With this Ring". As with the Wicked Widow, the characters were involved in a mystery that is surrounded in the "ancient philosophy and the fighting arts of Vanza". The work is characteristic and pure Amanda Quick- strong women, able men with honor and seemy underbellies with nasty villians. The readable text and vivid descriptions, dialogue etc are interesting and difficult to predict so that the reader is never really bored, but Vanza is presented as a cheap imitation of Kung Fu and I have never been a Bruce Lee fan.
The second detraction is that the hero and the heroine are involved in an association that drags with the pretense that there is no attraction and there is a power push-pull that gets a little old until the very end because each does not acknowledge the connection. At one point when the hero wants to search an apothecary shop late at night and refuses to let her accompany him. She threatens to go without him. No intelligent female, no matter how brave, is going to rattle through the slums of London on a foggy night, all alone. And in this book, the nights are always foggy. Since the "season" is generally in late spring/early summer that bit is a tad too convenient to be believable. I will admit that I prefer them to either acknowledge the personal relationship early and work together on the mystery while trying to keep the attractions from interfering, or to be that odd couple that knows what the other is thinking, just disagrees on how to proceed. This book is only one of a few that actually puts the heroine in trousers to climb in and out of dark alleys and climb through tunnels and so that is fun.