Once Upon a Marquess (The Worth Saga #1)

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The last man Judith Worth wants to see again is Christian Trent, the Marquess of Ashford the man who spent summers at her family home, who kissed her one magical night and then heartlessly ruined her father But when a tricky business matter arises, he s the only one she can ask for help With any luck, he ll engage a servant to take care of the matter, and she won t even have to talk with him.But Ashford has never forgotten Judith He knows she will never forgive him for what he s done, but when offered the chance to assist her, he arrives in person His memory of Judith may have haunted him, but it pales in comparison to the reality of the vivacious, beautiful woman he rediscovers Throughout his life, he has always done what is correct But now, he finds himself doing something utterly wrong falling in love with the one woman he can never have. Free Download [ Once Upon a Marquess (The Worth Saga #1) ] By [ Courtney Milan ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I ve never read a Courtney Milan book I ve heard lots of good stuff about this author though and when I saw this book go up on Netgalley I about broke my finger requesting it.I may need an Netgalley intervention quicker than I thought I used to read historical romance, and I liked it at the time I think I ve read too many stabbing, killing and porny mayhem books...I m a tough critic when it comes to historical romance, but Courtney Milan always delivers I m serious Always Her latest book begins a new series, The Worth Saga, which follows a family who have been ruined by a scandal It is typical Courtney Milan stuff, and by that I mean a very high quality, slow burn romance, an intelligent, independent female MC, and a host of multidimensional and interesting characters This is a second chance romance, which sometimes is tricky for me I tend to like m I m a tough critic when it comes to historical romance, but Courtney Milan always delivers I m serious Always Her latest book begins a new series, The Worth Saga, which follows a family who have been ruined by a scandal It is typical Courtney Milan stuff, and by that I mean a very high quality, slow burn romance, an intelligent, independent female MC, and a host of multidimensional and interesting characters This is a second chance romance, which sometimes is tricky for me I tend to like my characters to meet each other during the course of the story, and when characters already know each other, sometimes I fe...3.3 starsLook, I m a Milan fangirl, so I kind of feel like you ll have to pry my Milan books from my cold bony dead fingers but I do get what you all were saying about this book Have you ever put something together and then turned around to discover there are still some parts left in the bag Ikea, not for noobs Well, I feel like Milan had this problem but instead of hiding the evidence in a blackhole drawer, she jammed them into any nook and cranny she could find We have the Worth family wh 3.3 starsLook, I m a Milan fangirl, so I kind of feel like you ll have to pry my Milan books from my cold bony dead fingers but I do get what you all were saying about this book Have you ever put something together and then turned around to discover there are still some parts left in the bag Ikea, not for noobs Well, I feel like Milan had this problem but instead of hiding the evidence in a blackhole drawer, she jammed them into any nook and cranny she could find We have the Worth family whose father was found guilty of treason, especially scandalous because he is an Earl, and hung hangs himself in jail The eldest brother is found guilty of knowing ... Review written May 21, 20163 1 2 Stars Nice enough but not impressive as a CM rightly should be Luckily a fabulous and simply perfect audiobook narrator in RLBook 1A new series The Worth Saga from an author whose historicals I usually higly appreciate Downloaded this first part a month ago and I was at last listening to the 9 hrs audiobook narrated by one of the very best Rosalyn Landor Once Upon a Marquess is the oldest sister in the Wo Review written May 21, 20163 1 2 Stars Nice enough but not impressive as a CM rightly should be Luckily a fabulous and simply perfect audiobook narrator in RLBook 1A new series The Worth Saga from an author whose historicals I usually higly appreciate Downloaded this first part a month ago and I was at last listening to the 9 hrs audiobook narrated by one of the very best Rosalyn Landor Once Upon a Marquess is the oldest sister in the Worth family, Judith s, and her older brothers old best friend Charles Trent s the Marquess of Ashford , struggling love story A mostly serious, with lighter funnier parts, nevertheless quite slowly neatly told second chance romance There is a black and terribly sad past, injustices that are hard to forgive, broken hearts and lost loved family Status, honor, truth and old unresolved secrets We start, as so often in romances in a enemy to lovers place She took a bite Oh, God Bread The difference between dry, indigest...Actual rating 4.5 Love was a knife, and try as you might to hold it properly, it would always twist in your grasp, cutting your fingers.I ve just finished the most wonderful book These are the first and foremost words I want to repeat again and again when talking about this book At first, I wanted to start my review explaining how Courtney Milan is extremely talented, which she is, and how complicated my relationship with her books, which it is, but I decided I don t want to go into self philo Actual rating 4.5 Love was a knife, and try as you might to hold it properly, it would always twist in your grasp, cutting your fingers.I ve just finished the most wonderful book These are the first and foremost words I want to repeat again and again when talking about this book At first, I wanted to start my review explaining how Courtney Milan is extremely talented, which she is, and how complicated my relationship with her books, which it is, but I decided I don t want to go into self philosophy of exploring the nature of my relations with this author No, I just want to talk about how wonderful and beautiful and heartfelt this book was How complex and vulnerable characters were How easily it was for me to connect with them and sympathize with them This book is not your typical historical romance I d say 70% of it is a historical fiction with mystery and the last 30% are sensual and breathtaking beauty of a relationship between MCs.Do you want a story with exciting myst...4.5 stars EASILYIt was no surprise that he d fallen in love with Judith again He d never fallen out of love with her, and over the years, she d becomeMore beautiful More capable More sure More of everything he respected She d become so much that she scarcely had need of him And so begins a brand new series from Courtney Milan Courtney Milan, as we all know, is a writer who writes really complex and realistic characters and relationships with a deeply rooted social justice edge 4.5 stars EASILYIt was no surprise that he d fallen in love with Judith again He d never fallen out of love with her, and over the years, she d becomeMore beautiful More capable More sure More of everything he respected She d become so much that she scarcely had need of him And so begins a brand new series from Courtney Milan Courtney Milan, as we all know, is a writer who writes really complex and realistic characters and relationships with a deeply rooted social justice edge The Worth Saga is a culmination of everything we have come to know about her writing, and also shows how much she has evolved as a writer She has always had great concepts for her characters and relationships, but sometimes her execution has floundered But I think she has come to a point with her writing that I ca...I love the previous books by Ms Milan, but, I m sad to say, this is not as good as those The writing strives hard to be witty see the cats obsession, the swans, the baby elephants , but it soon becomes annoying and interrupts the flow of the story.Also both hero and the heroine are mildly annoying in their enimity freindship...My biggest problem with this book is that it felt forced, and Courtney Milan s stuff has never felt forced to me before I can tell she really struggled with this one I feel like I would have been able to tell even if I hadn t read her newsletter where she confessed that Once Upon a Marquess had given her tons of trouble, to the point where she basically had to scrap it and start the book over not to mention the author s notes where she hints at itvaguely.There was just too much she was My biggest problem with this book is that it felt forced, and Courtney Milan s stuff has never felt forced to me before I can tell she really struggled with this one I feel like I would have been able to tell even if I hadn t rea...Courtney Milan s writing style hasn t changed much, it s still multi layered and complex Her characterizations are precise as always, and they touch the human nature with all its emotions on a very precise level, which few others can claim to do This also can be said of the plot and the structure of the story it s engaging, the mystery part stays mysterious until I was satisfied that it was time to solve it, and the side characters and overall atmosphere weren t flat but rather dimensional A Courtney Milan s writing style hasn t changed much, it s still multi layered and complex Her characterizations are precise as always, and they touch the human nature with all its emotions on a very precise level, which few others can claim to do This also can be said of the plot and the structure of the story it s engaging, the mystery part stays mysterious until I was satisfied that it was time to solve it, and the side characters and overall atmosphere weren t flat but rather dimensional And after all this praise and reassurance of the author s talent, it s time to point out what went wrong for me And as it is most often the case with my favourite authors the writing et cetera is good, but the main characters didn t appeal to me They had a sweet past, so this one definitely falls into t...dnf 45%What a disappointment Once upon a time Courtney Milan was one of my favorite HR writers Not any Nothing worked for me in this story Based on characters conversations, they, along with the story, can be transported to modern times with just a little adjustment to their attire or the transportation they used The sprinkled socio political drivel was off putting Over the top dialog was bogged down with too much cleverness and became tedious and annoyingly cute It seems the autho dnf 45%What a disappointment Once upon a time Courtney Milan was one of my favorite HR writers Not any Nothing worked for me in this story Based on characters conversations, they, along with the story, can be transported to modern times with just a little adjustment to their attire or the transportation they used The sprinkled socio political drivel was off putting Over the top dialog was bogged down with too much cleverness and became tedious and annoyingly cute It seems the author tries too hard to make every phrase, every sentence so clever that the narrative becomes overloaded and heavy And the charactersThe he...

Once Upon a Marquess (The Worth Saga #1)
  • English
  • 14 January 2018
  • 277 pages
  • Courtney Milan
  • Once Upon a Marquess (The Worth Saga #1)