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I am a great fan of all her books and try to collect as many as I can. a promise of Spring delighted me as the Charactors appear in other of her novels, indeed carries on the pair into the web series. I enjoyed this book so much it is well written and her storyline is easy to follow. Perry and Grace are well suited even if it would seem to be a marriage of convenience at the start. But turns into a love match, even with the difference of age. Grace is such an interesting woman,she has so much love to give but loosing her son no one to give it to until Perry comes along. I have read it 3 times since getting it and I still enjoy it so much

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A Promise of Spring Mary Balogh 9780451164049 Books Reviews

There are 2 things that make Mary Balogh such a great writer (to me). First is her ability to create stories with original plots and conflicts. Never once have I started a Balogh book knowing, just from pure experience as an avid Regency reader, what her story is going to be about or how the conflict is going to be resolved. With so many Regency romance novels out there, that alone is a very huge feat. A Promise of Spring is a story about the marriage between a woman matured through the years by very painful experiences and a man 10 years her junior. Given that in the period she writes, marriages between women and men much much older than them were the norm, the backward approach Balogh takes in this novel is a pure original.
The second thing that makes Balogh such a wonderful writer is her ability to delve into the characters' beings, to portray them to the reader in a way that makes them real and believable. Her characters are never EVER flat. She deftly takes us into the minds and the hearts of her players each and every time, so that we the readers can understand and sympathize with them and their dilemma. That's why her stories are always so moving (I couldn't name a single Balogh title that didn't form tears in my eyes), because we feel what the characters feel. Or perhaps it's the other way around--Balogh creates her characters so fully, so convincingly, giving them all the emotions and vulnerability of a normal human being like you or me, that the characters are no longer just players in a fiction--they are the representatives of real people, they feel what WE feel. In that, we get the sense that the author understands us, which in turn makes it that much easier for us to empathize with the characters in her book.
This is vintage Balogh at her finest. The reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is that I reserve that for the extra EXTRA good books that not only have depth of character and originality but also wit and humour, something Balogh's books tend to lack. Which isn't to say that this book isn't worth the read--it is!
I'm a huge fan of Mary Balogh and have read dozens of her books. Surprisingly, I found this one to be one of my favourites. The premise is rather original and always a favourite of mine (although in real life all couples that I have known where the wife is several years older than the husband have eventually divorced, it is still nice to have a fantasy about a happy ending in such a situation). The characters are multifaceted, well drawn, imperfect and relatable. Like most readers, I occasionally wanted the hero to man-up, so to speak, but I have to respect the author's vision and the fact that the hero stayed true to himself in respecting another person's free will. My only complaint was that after spending the whole book in anticipation of the scene where they would finally declare their love to each other and all those mistaken assumptions about each other would end, the too-light, easy ending was a bit of a let-down. However, it does not take away much from the otherwise wonderful book.
Slow and sweet romance. No bodice ripping, no BDSM.

Grace is left alone when her brother dies saving a young child so Perry, her brother's best friend, offers for her. Surprising issue is she is ten years older. Despite being a MOC, it is a surprisingly passionate one.

Perry is a natural born flirt and completely at ease with women without being an obnoxious womanizer. He sounds like the eternal younger brother. Grace is VERY buttoned up and distant owing to a past tragedy scandal. She had a baby out of wedlock who died at four.

The story heats up when in an effort to mend bridges, Grace and Perry visit her family. While there, the evil, skeevy Gareth rears his arrogant self. He is the dark side of the alpha hero arrogant, manipulative, entitles and selfish. He plays the our-passion-is-too-strong-to deny card but Grace does not want to play.

A foray into London society and back to the old estate, evil Gareth follows the couple.

There is a lot of back and forth with the H and h of does he/she love me. It gets a little tedious.

All in all a thumbs up with the caveat that this is a nice gentle romance, the old grey mare kind of romance. Perfect for a rainy day.

Sex/love scenes are discreet, but not quite fade to black.
A typical Mary Balogh story. I love her story telling style. I wanted to learn about the Lampman's story after reading the Gilded Web.
This has to be the only book by Mary Balogh that I was a little disappointed. It was slow in some places and others I couldn't seem to keep my interest. But it did end with all the emotion you want.
I am a great fan of all her books and try to collect as many as I can. a promise of Spring delighted me as the Charactors appear in other of her novels, indeed carries on the pair into the web series. I enjoyed this book so much it is well written and her storyline is easy to follow. Perry and Grace are well suited even if it would seem to be a marriage of convenience at the start. But turns into a love match, even with the difference of age. Grace is such an interesting woman,she has so much love to give but loosing her son no one to give it to until Perry comes along. I have read it 3 times since getting it and I still enjoy it so much

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