Sherry has the most incredible skill to create powerful angst. Watch out, hopeless romantics!This was a difficult book to rate. On one hand, I loved it.The characters were the most realistic I've read in a while, with flaws and qualities, and there I say, more flaws than qualities and several demons both had to exorcise to move on and just be happy.And what demons! I couldn't help feeling deeply every single thing Louisa and Felix, our protagonists, felt.The hopeless hope that our feelings are going to be reciprocated, someday, the anguish of loving someone who doesn't love us back, the despair of realizing how enslaved we are by what we feel, the pain of watching the one we love put so many barriers between us that it seems we'll never reach him, the fear of becoming someone old and bitter.All this I felt and so much more, therefore I couldn't possibly be indifferent to this book.Like I said, the author is very talented at provoking powerful emotion and making us feel every bit of its intensity.On the other hand, there were some times where I thought everything was just too much.I didn't like the fact Louisa and Felix kept hiding behind ugly motivations and using that as an excuse for everything they did.Louisa kept pretending she was just interested in his money, which may have been in part true in the beginning, but not after she got to be around him.Also, she kept hiding behind her sexual desire for him to avoid facing her real feelings. She couldn't hold his hand, because that would pass the wrong idea, but she sure could screw the living daylights out of him.I understand how Felix would feel used and discarded.But hey, he did the same as well. He was just so cold and cruel sometimes, not thinking about anyone else and doing everything in his power to get what he wanted. But at what cost?Nothing was ever easy with these two and, sometimes, it sickened me what they did to each other.That is also part of what I loved in the book, though, so it's really complicated.Read the book and you'll see for yourself. Felix, Marquess of Wrenworth, is determined never to succumb to love after witnessing the chilly war zone of his parents' marriage; Louisa Cantwell is equally determined to make a practical match to provide for her family. They both excel at reading people, so they suss out each other's intentions upon initial introduction, and find in each other someone they don't hve to don society trappings for. They descend past honesty into frankness and even familiarity; attraction doesn't follow, it precedes the whole sequence.I feel like Thomas rarely ends with the wedding as the happy ending; if anything, marriage often offers new obstacles in the relationship. Some of the balking was a little too telegraphed for me to be patient with it, but I liked Felix and Louisa's interactions, which tended toward the acerbic, both when they were getting along and not. I wasn't quite convinced by the shared interest in astronomy (although it was nice to see an outside hobby), but both the first fast courtship and the second slower one were well-written enough to win me over.
Do You like book The Luckiest Lady In London (2013)?
Marriage Arrangement. Lumayan sih, tapi rasanya critanya kurang panjang. Hahaha
—dixie
The end wasn't as good as the first part of the novel.
—sheena
It was ok a very slow read not enough excitement
—stelutza_aly
