I can't wait for Edward's story!! We have Kleypas' Devil in the Spring out in April followed by this in May. Springtime is going to be glorious!! (Sigh. But so far away.)

I wish I could say the book was as good as its ending…Should I base my rating on my feelings at the end of the book?I could easily tell you that I finished The Girl With The Make-Believe Husband (geez, that’s a mouthful) with a big smile on my face. There’s even a chance I could say that the ending left me satisfied and excited for more. I’d even go as far as to say that that ending was a 5-star ending. Unfortunately, I can't rate a book on the ending alone. For most of this journey, I wanted to...

This came highly recommended but I wasn't quite as in love with it as I hoped. In fact, out of all the Rokesbys books, this was my least favorite.In general, though, I've enjoyed this series of prequel Bridgerton books far more than the actual Bridgeton books.The gist is that our heroine, Cecilia, crosses an ocean and lands on the shores of 'Merica in the middle of that war we had with the British back in the day. Why? Because her brother, a soldier in Her Majesty's Army, was injured and has gon...

I have to get back to this one someday when I get a print copy. My library only had an audible and I honestly don't know how y'all stand it! Someone else reading to me? They read too slow. They put on stupid voices and accents. They read wrong. And, then when there is some smut and some English chick is reading it aloud to me? The wrongness tripled.I got about halfway through and it was okay-ish, but I didn't like that the heroine continued lying to the hero for so long. The dude was injured, le...

This review was originally posted on Addicted To RomanceThe Girl with the Make Believe Husband is a story I will admit that I was nervous about, especially since I haven't read the first book in the series. But then I heard some great things about this one, and decided that I really needed to try it out. I will say that I really stuggled with this one pretty much the first half of the book. I just couldn't get interested in the story that much, but then once I hit between the 50-60%, then I was

3.5 stars ✨ Forced proximity. Amnesia. Fake marriage. Oh what tangled webs we weave... I liked this story okay. A bit slow paced, and then the last 1/3 or 1/4 it picked up and got interesting. I did adore Edward Rokesby though and I loved how even though the marriage was fake (on part of the heroine lying), they still truly fell in love with each other.

Review to come! But for now, suffice it to say that this author just writes such sweet, funny, swoony dialogue and delightful, clever and subtly insightful prose that I'd happily devour nearly anything she writes :)

(ARC provided by Edelweiss and publisher for honest review)Unputdownable! I don't know how she keeps doing it, but JQ outdid herself one more time! The main couple was lovely. Cecilia is such a relatable heroine. And Edward is the very definition of charming. They both had fantastic chemistry.I loved how JQ made such a far-fetched story completely believable. There was no unnecessary drama and no forced conflict. I think Cecilia's actions were entirely justified and Edward's reactions were compl...

ARC provided by Edelweiss and publisher for an honest review.I have enjoyed Julia Quinn's books in the past but have had problems with several of her stories having slow pacing and being on the dry/dull side. Unfortunately this one fell in the later camp. This story I found to be quite slow the first third to half of the book and not very engaging or intriguing enough of for me, sadly.Cecilia Harcourt leaves the English colonies and heads to America in search of her brother. Her brother fought i...

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband (Rokesbys, #2), Julia Quinn Julie Pottinger, better known by her pen name Julia Quinn. The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband is book Two in the Rokesbys series. This is the story of Cecilia Harcourt and Edward Rokesby. With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlanti...

Good gosh this book. THIS BOOK. I had a really lovely experience with it, and I can’t tell you how much I ended up loving The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband. It’s poignant, emotional, and heartbreaking in its utter gorgeousness. I’m not up to date with all of Julia Quinn’s books, but for me, this is the best story that she has ever crafted.With any romance that involves amnesia and one person lying about the nature of their relationship, there’s this fear that it will lead to unnecessary dra...

I was exasperated by the halfway point that the entire conflict revolved around Cecilia lying about being married to Edward. That never changed. Further, she never does come clean. And when Edward finds out, he goes all manipulative liar out of anger. In other words, there's no communication. No respect. And the only love expressed is the "I'm doing this for your own good" variety. So it's immature and selfish and they even go to extremes to get there.It's a good thing the plot made sense to com...

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband was a disappointment for me. In short, it was full of lies and short on joy.I will be the first to admit that I love Julia Quinn novels. However, this series has been an enormous disappointment to me. I think I may need to take a break from Quinn novels for a while. I know this is an unpopular opinion since people love JQ and think her writing is light and funny. In most cases, it is. Some of her novels are on my favorites shelf forever. I even own two copi...

This was a buddy read with a bunch of girls from the Historical Romance Book Club. Pretty much everyone rated this 3 to 4 stars, but honestly, this did not work for me. I disliked it about as much as The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy so if you liked that one, chances are you might enjoy this one, too. So, unpopular opinion alert: I did not like this book. It pains me to say this about something that comes from one of my all time favorite authors whose books I have re-read countless times beca...

2 Dissapointed Stars A huge Dissapointment after Book 1 of this series :/ This book was mediocre at best :/ Nothing new or different about this read at all.This story has been done a hindered times over in many other better ways.The plot moved forward slowly with barely tolerable,boring leads and heck of LIES from the heroine (which ends up causing unnecessary angst..in my opinion the hero would have definatly helped her out if she had just told him the truth Atleast 20% into the book).Nothing

Edited to add steam stats 11/20/21:Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:(view spoiler)[Pg 82 - kissPg 136 - kissPg 224 - fingering orgasm for her, followed by sex (missionary, virginity loss for her)Pg 300 - oral for her followed by sex (missionary)Total pages 373 (hide spoiler)]Book takes place in 1779Original review 8/18/18: This book has a very sweet and gentlemanly hero! He is fighting the war in the colonies and becomes injured. When he awakens he finds he has a wife, but cannot recall month...