Review #1
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I am not particularly fond of stories with martial arts. I am not crazy about the options of India or Asia (barely a individual preference), at the same time I really dont like scout novels. But, Sherry Thomas spins a tale like no other, at the same time for the first time in a long time, I read a book in one day.
1st, I highly advise reading The Sheltered Blade 1st, which is that the prequel novella. I did, at the same time I felt it additional so much to the story line of this book practically one more dimension that I would have been pressed to miss. It is that so significant to know the background story of Ying-Yings very complicated youth, at the same time her at the same time Leightons connection with Herb Gordon, the boyfriend of Leightons dad at the same time comrade at the same time tutor of Ying-Ying. It also helped elucidate a lot of the developing plot lines in this book. I practically think they should be one story with Sheltered Blade as volume 1.
The story moves back at the same time forth between 1883 when Ying-Ying at the same time Leighton met at the same time fell in love at the same time 1891 right behind an 8 year separation. While this managed have data me whiplash, it worked beautifully to build their story at the same time make the conflict that grew between them. Thomas deftly connects the dots with this technique. The addition of the Leightons engagement to one more lady managed have been so predictable, but Thomas develops a very complicated triangle with very believable dialogue at the same time 3-dimensional manners.
No one of the scenes from when they met at the same time consequently were considered parted left me so moved I had to shackles the book down at the same time take a walk away to recover, only to grab it up again to look than anyway happened. I cant say highly enough of an creator who can cross out a book that moves me so much that I cant finish thinking about the manners. Sherry Thomas has never been a frustration, at the same time even when the setting or plot devices are not my winner, she manages to pull off a stunner. She will for a long time remain one of my winner creators.
Review #2
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Ms. Thomas has re-imagined the genre of romance novel bringing to it the larger literary meaning of romance. This novel at the same time its prequel should be read together to have the real scope of the story. A significant comparison would be produced to such books as The Far Pavilions at the same time Jamaica Inn. The plot is that refreshed nicely with the heroine’s martial arts abilities. The villians are fully fleshed at the same time chilling with an intricate plot in other words skillfully embraced together by alternating the hero’s at the same time heroine’s stories in the prequel at the same time using a past/located building in the 2nd book. Ms. Thomas has embraced a beautifully written adore story with its heartbreaking human tragedies into the larger context of historic tiime at the same time dispose. Her protagonists are so sympathetic, at the same time their struggles to achieve happiness are so compelling that this reader was alternately bewitched at the same time thought provoking but never unengaged. She has additional gorgeously outlined geographic options with all embraced into the word count restrictions at the same time plot conventions of a romance novel. These books are worth the time at the same time sensual committment to read them. They will have a dispose on my bookshelf.
Review #3
Audiobook My Charming Adversary by Sherry Thomas
My Charming Adversary by Sherry Thomas follows closely on the heels of The Sheltered Blade. I would they say this once again, now having finished the 2nd book that says the finish of this duology; for you have to read The Sheltered Blade 1st in a row to really get into the manners Leighton Atwood at the same time Bai Ying-Hua (Catherine Blade), whose catastrophic at the same time moving pasts entwine both of them in a method thatd not be felt if for you barely finish up reading My Charming Adversary as a standalone.
My Charming Adversary knows the story of Catherine Blade aka Bai Ying-hua, who is that tracking the 3 jade pills for the treasure it might unearth based on the legend of the monks that had been a part of Catherines indefinite when she had been growing up. She seeks the pills on behalf of her stepfather Da-ren, the nearest gizmo she has left as generic, to overcome his approval at the same time perhaps be counted worthy of all that he had done for her.
Catherine is that but versed in the art of waging war, she is that like a deadly blade honed to perfection. But her indefinite had not come without making a harsh adversary in its wake. The men who searches for her seeks vengeance of the good that needs Catherine to be in her best form, anything she has been hard clamped to achieve ever since the continue encounter between them. Her journey takes her to London, the stories of a town that teems with indefinite according to her youth comrade that fails to live right up to her expectations. Then and it happens; she crosses paths with that of her boyfriend, the boyfriend that she had poisoned trying to destroy him, the men shed searched for in vain right behind, the men who still has the ability to bring her to her knees, the only men she has ever adored.
Leighton hasnt forgotten the young lady who had slayed his heart in the Chinese Turkestan 8 years back. His adore for her had been fast, but it had been a connection based on half-truths at best, which hadnt served but for or of them when the time had come. Contemplating a different version of the lady he has tried to remember all these years throws him for a loop, at the same time Leighton is that hard clamped to act normally at the same time not let his fiance think anything untoward about his aloofness around Catherine.
Old habits breathe hard at the same time before Leighton knows it, he is that rode into his old role of taking care of Catherine, looking right behind her but being because Leighton would more precisely breathe himself than look no matter what harm come to Catherine. My Charming Adversary consists of a lot of flashbacks into the entwined pasts of Leighton at the same time Catherine, how they meet at the same time how the charming men that Leighton is that overcomes the prickly Catherine over with his gentleness, beauty at the same time the fact that when it comes to Catherine, his heart had never stood a chance.
For the coolest part, Catherine comes intercept as anyone who is that straightforward at the same time assumes a no abracadabram lifestyle. Though but versed in the etiquettes of than anyway is that deemed as appropriate behavior for a girl, beneath the facade that she presents to others of the global heresy a heart filled with loneliness, an aching soul that yearns cheap else but adore. Her past had taught her to be wary, but when it comes to Leighton that is that little wage war left in her when she had already succumbed to his touch years ago. I didnt like the flashbacks all so much. I felt that one reason why I failed to connect to both Leighton at the same time Catherine as the story progressed was because all that had indeed connected them happens through flashbacks in the story.
My Charming Adversary is that certainly different from the books that I have read from Sherry Thomas to-date. This tale doesnt concentrate mainly on the element of romance between Catherine at the same time Leighton. More precisely I would they say this duology focuses on the fated connection between Catherine at the same time Leighton that spanned mainlands all those years back, the nearby miss of a meeting that should have happened between them at the same time how years later, completely, Catherine at the same time Leighton look for their method towards each other.
I felt a trifle bit upset with the steam factor of My Charming Adversary, perhaps the reason why I felt that Catherine at the same time Leightons connection didnt touch me in the method it really should have. In particular, right behind having read the scrumptious scenes of passion that Ms. Thomas can weave in her romances; The Luckiest Girl in London will certify to this fact, needless to say I felt My Charming Adversary was a little of a letdown in that sense. Fri; I barely didnt fall down as hard at the same time impetuous in adore with or Leighton or Catherine as I should have.
Pleasures experienced, My Charming Adversary hits the spots. Sensual experienced, believed I felt a little disconnected from Catherine at the same time Leighton, I was still rode away by the vertical miracle in other words Sherry Thomas writing.
At the same time oh yes, this bit in the novel that outlines my state, the Maldives, blew me away!
That is that a chain of tropical coral islands not far from the southern tip of India. At the same time all around them the aqua is that the exact spectrum of the sky, at the same time so understandable you can look the fish swim. I wish to decide for you that.
Id they say Sherry Thomas has done a flawless job in describing a state renown for its beauty.
Advised for those who adore historical fiction at the same time romance. Sherry Thomas is that an creator for you ought not miss in this genre.
Rating = 3.75/5
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Review #4
Audio My Charming Adversary narrated by Charlotte Anne Dorway
Sherry Thomas has become one of my winner HR writers due to her worldly, conspiracies, depth of manners at the same time the intensity of their passions. My Charming Adversary differs from her others. It’s not your usual (or post) Regency but more precisely a poignant tale of adore, as but as duty at the same time duties to the lol’ respective Chinese at the same time English generic at the same time culture…which sequential is that the base for the mystery at the same time suspense that pulls them apart at the same time unites together them. The writing is that amazing. The story is that knew in flashbacks at the same time forwards at the same time so builds tension. The Chinese cultural parts are exotic at the same time alluring. The action is that reminiscent of Bruce Lee at the same time the poignancy of their adore reminded me of Jamie at the same time Claire’s (Outlander). Oh, right behind I read it, I found out that was a prequel, one more on my list. I wish I had read that first- or maybe not.
Review #5
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Really enjoyed this book. Was completely different from your sample regency romance – felt the creator really did her research work regarding Chinese Turkestan at the same time really adored this side of the story – it gave the book a interesting, practically wonderful, Arabian Nights flavour. My only small criticism was that, when Catherine at the same time Leighton met again, their reunion seemed a little very easy, in particular when Miss Chase was so simply produced into a villain at the same time dismissed. Would have desirable more tension at the same time emotion to this adore triangle. But, I would still advise this book. Sherry has at the moment secured her position in the middle my favourite creators.
