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possessed Amalie by the moon's sultry glow and sent her to the whitehot limits of ecstatsy, But by day, her husand, Julien Declouet, remained aloof, Who was this myserious man whose languid caress and sweet seduction she craved Yet deep in her heart, she knew the answer.
Her midnight lover was not her husband, but his handsome cousin, Robert, "From the Paperback edition. " This book was terrible. I've read worse but it was also boring as fuck,
The heroine was like plain oatmeal, There was nothing about her that was actually interesting or make her real to me, She was boring and bland, Completely forgettable.
Also the sex scenes were boring and so unrealistic omg, Sarah will tell you all about it sitelinkhere,
Amalie Declouet's husband, Julien, is such a gentleman by day but leaves her alone at night, Then, one night, a handsome man enters her bedroom and makes wild, passionate love to her all night, every night, Still, by day, Julien is a gentleman, In Creole society of the time, arranged marriages are common and Amalie wonders if this the way it's going to be until she begins to suspect Julien's cousin, Robert.
Eventually, Amalie discovers the truth, Then Julien disappears and is found murdered, Robert is the chief suspect but the truth is stranger than fiction, Can Amalie and Robert find true love
This is a reread because when I read it before, I loved it so much.
It's been on my Keeper Shelf since then, MINOR SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW,
I found it really hard to keep going with this one, I downloaded a four pack of Jennifer Blake books called the Southern Plantation Series for my Kindle, Midnight Waltz was the second book in the series,
Reading the synopsis I thought this book would have promise, however, I found I wanted to constantly skip through the long detailed descriptions and step by step narrations of Amelie's daily life.
The whole situation with Robert just confused me, I felt their midnight relationship just started out of nowhere and made no sense, I knew it wasn't Julian from the beginning, so I'm not sure how Amelie couldn't figure it out, What really made her think it was him, I mean if he talked to her couldn't she tell the voice wasn't right.
All together I thought the book was a mess with a few moments that got me turning the pages,
I can't even finish this, It's just ugh. An incredibly dull book with an unbelievable premise based on the heroine's monumental stupidity, No woman would be that dense, Once, maybe but repeatedly mistaking another man for your husband facepalm HOW DUMB ARE YOU His smell, his voice, his cadence of breathing, the way his hands feel these things would all be familiar, regardless of whether you've consummated the marriage skintoskin.
The author compounds Amalie's idiocy by repeatedly assuring the reader how her husband amp his cousin whose name I already forget look so similar that they could almost be twins.
How convenient! Though apparently hair color, height, amp breadth of shoulder are sufficient to fool her brain the fact that they have completely different personalities, mannerisms, amp attitudes makes no nevermind to Amalie once the lights are out.
But FFS. No room is THAT dark, I could understand her unwillingness to pitch a fit amp lose the material security of her marriage, but her ignorance regarding Julian's completely obvious amp the mistaken identity of her lordly lover was ridiculous.
The remaining prose was a slog of highly detailed amp completely uninteresting infodumps regarding architecture, interior decorating, housekeeping, clothes, amp routines.
The only semiinteresting conflict revolved around the "noble slave" concept the merits of highly educated, pampered favorites vs their issues returning to general slave society, amp even that was handled with clumsy backandforth dialogue between the H/h.
Overall: boring, boring, amp more boring, I need to learn
to let books go when I'm notfeeling them and this is the start of doing so.
There was nothing bad about this book I'm just bored and nothing much really is happening to keep my interest, I find Jennifer Blake to be VERY descriptive and sometimes I start staring off into space instead of reading, I liked Robert and Amalie though,
I might come back to it when I don't have a million other books to read, Well, that sure ended with a bang, Can't post the review until later in July for new publication date, Sorry.
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"Women in the Creole portion of Louisiana did not attend burials, though they might be present at the mass for the should of the dead.
They could give birth in a welter of gore, tend the incontinent elderly in their last days, and witness, not to mention clean up after, the bodily degradation caused by most illnesses but they were, of course, far too delicate to sustain the sight of their loved ones being lowered into the grave.
" I really enjoyed the book as a whole, There were some portions that were not enjoyable, I'm fan of a good misunderstanding or unneeded confusion that must be worked through and brought to resolution, The Amalie/Julien/Robert aspect was most interesting, Yet, that's the reason I gave the book three of five, I felt that went on far too long before being brought to resolution,
Ms. Blake has a way of describing Louisiana as no other, Being a native of Louisiana and having a family that goes back several generations in that state, Ms, Blake definitely captures the mystique and language that is the old south,
Elegí este libro por su argumento, y es que la historia apuntaba a una historia de esas donde las cosas no son lo que parecen con eso de que el esposo era frío con ella durante el día, pero muy apasionado por la noche, y claro, no me quedó más remedio que ponerme a leerlo para ver que le pasaba a esta chica que estaba tan confundida con su marido hasta el punto de no saber si es la misma persona o no.
Y me diréis, cómo puede ser que no reconozca a su marido Pues en cuanto vas conociendo a Amalie ves que es algo muy fácil, porque nuestra protagonista es una chica ingenua que lleva muy poquito tiempo casada, solo tres meses, pero aún es virgen, aunque ella piensa que sí ha consumado el matrimonio pues su marido ha dormido con ella en alguna ocasión.
Así de inocente e ingenua es la pobre chica,
Pues en la oscuridad de la noche, las puertas que comunican con el cuarto de su marido se abren para dejar paso a un hombre apasionado cuyo comportamiento difiere mucho del que Julien tiene con ella a la luz del día y eso hará que nuestra protagonista empiece a hacerse preguntas algo incómodas, aunque no creáis que eso lo hace desde el primer momento, que la chica es muy ingenua y le cuesta horrores ver las cosas como son, aun cuando empieza a sospecharlas, prefiere cubrirse de un velo de ignorancia y obviar lo obvio para no tener que enfrentarse a las consecuencias de sus sospechas.
La historia nos sitúa en St, Martinville, Luisiana. Aunque no se nos indica el año en concreto, pero por comentarios de los protagonistas sabemos que es poco antes de la Guerra de Secesión.
Amalie es una chica que estuvo prometida y muy enamorada, pero las sucesivas muertes de su padre, madre, y finalmente su prometido, y el estricto periodo de luto entre cada una de ellas, ha hecho que haya llegado a la avanzada edad de veinticuatro años sin tener marido, por lo que su tía le arregla un matrimonio con un joven de la región.
Estamos en una época donde los matrimonios concertados están a la orden del día y Amalie solo ve un par de veces a su futuro esposo antes del matrimonio.
Después de la muerte de su prometido se había conformado con su soltería, pero la promesa de hijos hace que acepte la unión con un hombre que apenas conoce.
Pues la historia al comienzo es bastante lenta, pero luego mejora, el suspense sobre el marido es bastante evidente desde la primera página, pero luego se le añade un asesinato, la sospecha de culpabilidad de varios de los protagonistas, el rechazo social, un amor imposible y la trama comienza a tener algo más de chicha donde hincarle el diente.
Los personajes se ven abocados a una situación que a la larga resulta insostenible y que, como es lógico, termina por explotarles en las manos.
El estilo de la autora es ampuloso y algo recargado, aunque adecuado para el contexto histórico en el que se encuentra la obra, quizá sea por la época en la que se escribió, pero que me ha resultado muy extraño, y es que he leído muchas historias de época con un estilo más desenfadado y moderno y no estoy muy acostumbrada a este estilo tan recargado, me frenaba un poco la lectura, pero eso sí, ha sido genial para ampliar mi vocabulario.
Narrada en tercera persona por un narrador omnisciente y con, para mi gusto, un exceso de descripciones y pocos diálogos, lo que hacía la lectura algo aburrida en ocasiones.
Aunque para ser sincera, como a la mitad del libro la cosa comienza a tener algo de acción y mejora un poquito.
Como os decía la autora nos muestra un retrato realista de lo que debía ser la vida de la época las convenciones y las reglas sociales, están muy bien retratadas en este libro.
Un mundo de hacendados y esclavos, donde empieza a brotar las ansías de libertad, Aunque no es muy de mi estilo en género románticohistórico le doy un/,
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