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An interesting book, there everything in this story lies,intrigues, love, murder, suspense are the essence of story. Mrs. Carlyle wrote a love story with a lot of issues and characters so many that is the reason why do joy gave 5 stars. The first 30 pages is a drag and I was tempted to stop reading, but I continued and then the story started to develop and getting better. It is a complex story to many characters and a issue after issue. I like it worth the money because is regarding a marquis Rannoch who by mistakes a raining day he founds a house where he receive for one night because weather condition. Angeline is an older woman around 27 and the head of 4 children who keep outside her family from others. The issue here that she is hidden from her father's family but when the family shows up were no dangerous at all. Then they disappear without no reason at all. I will very annoy because they do not reason to show in the story. The real story the romance between Evangeline and Elliot Robert(Rannoch) he does not tell them he is marquis. He was accused of the death of his fiancé, he becomes a Praia, rogue them others characters shows and the issues started to develop and emerge getting more important. Does not let wrong. The story is complicated and those readers who look a easy and lightly story this not your book. This book is for readers who loves romance with suspense, , family with issues but loves each other and struggle against all adds. The sex scenes are hot but with emotions and good taste. For those readers this book is for you. I going to read the other book of Mrs Carlyle.


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My False Heart Sonnet Books Liz Carlyle 9780671040543 Books Reviews

I really enjoyed this book but, as I got further into it Evie annoyed me. I don't like female h's that take hissy fits and don't or wont listen.I don't know why the author gave her this personality trait. She was supposed to be a mature woman who dealt with difficult issues. She did however improve. Elliot got 5 stars for patience and Evie lost one. That is all I am going to say, no one wants to read the whole story; this is a review not a preview. Yes I liked the overall story line a lot and would recommend you read it.
First off, many people will like this book. I liked it. I'm not unhappy with the book. For me, it felt like a really good author's early book before they really hit their mature writing stride- almost there but not quite. Liz Carlyle is a pretty good writer and this book shows a great deal of promise- but, there is a disconnect somewhere in the book's later half that fails to fulfill the books' early promise. I looked at some other reviews, curious to see if anyone else feels the same, and it appears that the book is a much better fit with other readers so take my review with a grain of salt. It is NOT a bad book- I read it all and I mostly enjoyed it. I thought the book had too many similarities to Loretta Chase's "Lord of Scoundrels"- though that is an excellent book to pay homage to. The latter half just wasn't as good as the first half and I was somewhat disappointed. I thought the books' pace was a little poky, at times, too. And, some of the plot lines were annoyingly dropped or resolved outside the narrative.

The set-up of the book had a lot of promise. Elliot, the hero, had an somewhat original and interesting characterization. He reminded me a lot of Loretta Chase's hero in "Lord of Scoundrels"- a sentimental favorite of mine. He had this remarkable mix of innocence and stupidity and arrogance and spite. It made for a complex character. And, he was very, very redeemable. In fact, not much redemption was required. His character was essentially sweet. This book had some of the same issues that Chase's book had- the hero comes off as a bit of a moron for failing to see good fortune sitting right in front of him and failing to act reasonably at every opportunity. His ruse, at the beginning of the book, had a sweet element of discovery and innocent enjoyment- it was worthy. But, his tortured internal monologues about the ruse and what a sorry human being he was? Too many. The longer those went on, the more pointless and unoriginal it became. His wildly varying temperament. Hmm- at times, it was a solid aspect to his character. I liked him when he was with Evangeline's family- I liked his sweetness, his flirting, his arrogance in firing her staff, his discombobulation. I even liked how he met with Evangeline's hostility- drunkenness, wheedling those near and dear, sweetness, and arrogance. Then, there were times when his character was wobbly. I didn't like the whole rake thing. Yes, he was a rake. We got that, totally, in the first twenty pages. But, here we've got this rapidly reforming rake playing with kids and having tea with his daughter- it seemed so wobbly to then have him being a lout with his friends or his constant low self-esteem, inner harangues about his terrible-ness. It just didn't strike the right balance with me. Perhaps, that is personal preference.

The latter half just wasn't as good as the first half. This I blame on two things The Cicely sub-plot and the fact that once the characters had married, they didn't really have that much further to go in their relationship so there wasn't much true character growth in the latter half of the book. The Cicely sub-plot was way more interesting in its set-up! Way more interesting. The latter half of the sub-plot mostly excluded the main characters, tried to be ambiguous, and had an overly melodramatic resolution. And, did anyone actually care about Baron Cranham? I thought Elliot should just stay at home and leave Cranham to his own devices. The relationship between Elliot and Evangeline in the latter half of the book was less interesting. They had both, in substance if not words, had resolved their major conflict. He completely redeemed in character- the minor obstacles that were thrown in the lover's path were unworthy. When you know the character's thoughts, then those little plot points are somewhat empty and a waste of time and space. It just seemed like the author had wound up the romance half way through the book and she stretched it out.

As to the poky pacing- I think that occurred when the author was trying to stretch out the romance or the Cicely subplot further than there was substance to support the narrative. The first half of the book had a decent pace, it is only in the second half it slowed down and at the times the author was trying to bridge one of her plot points. Yes, she tried very hard to construct a decent and complex mystery (think Stephanie Laurens- another author who gives a lot of time and attention to mysteries in her romances) but she didn't do it effortlessly. That isn't a criticism- like I said, this seems like an early novel from a talented author. It just seems like she plotted her mystery as being bigger than it was so, in some spaces, it had to stall while the romance or character developments caught up.

As to dropped plot lines- I personally dislike this. I feel annoyed that I get invested in a plot line and the author drops it. What happened with Michael and the Grandmother! You get this miraculous resolution in the form of Lady Howell's inexplicable confession of the entire relevant back story but I can't have a few sentences about how the nasty grandmother fell into a pigsty?

So, it is a good book. Really. It just isn't amazing. But, then, most books I read aren't amazing and I really shouldn't hold against the author. I think the first half just got my hopes up very high and the latter half just didn't compete. So, there was some minor disappointment. But not as much disappointment as a bad book.
Liz Carlyle is hit or miss with me. I liked "The Devil You Know". This was a miss. World weary roue' and a sexually open minded artist just didn't work for me. Elliot wanted to be different and gets his chance to be better with Evangeline and her family when he finds himself lost in the countryside. When she finds he was lying to her, she didn't take it (which I liked)... until they had sex. It annoyed me no end how he could be so involved in the lives of her brothers and sisters yet ignore his own child. They fall hard and fast for each other but it felt forced. He would need to go home only for them to pine for each other. So, the time together was sparse. Then there were the other plot drivers that took away from the romance. And my biggest gripe... calling each other by name every other paragraph when they are speaking to each other and with no one else around. It is such an aggravation for me as a reader.
An interesting book, there everything in this story lies,intrigues, love, murder, suspense are the essence of story. Mrs. Carlyle wrote a love story with a lot of issues and characters so many that is the reason why do joy gave 5 stars. The first 30 pages is a drag and I was tempted to stop reading, but I continued and then the story started to develop and getting better. It is a complex story to many characters and a issue after issue. I like it worth the money because is regarding a marquis Rannoch who by mistakes a raining day he founds a house where he receive for one night because weather condition. Angeline is an older woman around 27 and the head of 4 children who keep outside her family from others. The issue here that she is hidden from her father's family but when the family shows up were no dangerous at all. Then they disappear without no reason at all. I will very annoy because they do not reason to show in the story. The real story the romance between Evangeline and Elliot Robert(Rannoch) he does not tell them he is marquis. He was accused of the death of his fiancé, he becomes a Praia, rogue them others characters shows and the issues started to develop and emerge getting more important. Does not let wrong. The story is complicated and those readers who look a easy and lightly story this not your book. This book is for readers who loves romance with suspense, , family with issues but loves each other and struggle against all adds. The sex scenes are hot but with emotions and good taste. For those readers this book is for you. I going to read the other book of Mrs Carlyle.