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Just really, really lovely. It's a story of two damaged souls who help each other begin again.

The hero was horribly injured in the Peninsular Wars. He feels he has been made untouchable.

The heroine worked as a governess, where she was raped, left pregnant, and abandoned by her family.

Neither the hero's nor the heroine's trauma is recent. They both survived and have built new, productive lives for themselves. But, though they are okay, they both long for more.

Benevolent friends introduce these lost souls to one another, and they slowly awake to the possibility that they can more than simply survive. They can dream.

Wonderfully brave and lovable hero. He's great. Lovely (though hesitant) heroine. A great rootable pairing.

My only strong criticism is the pressure on the heroine to forgive the family who abandoned her when she needed them most. I don't know how or why she should forgive them. I was also uncomfortable with her rapist's relatives claiming kinship with her son against her wishes. And yet it says something about her worthless family that at one point I found myself hoping that when the story stressed reunion with family that it would result in her being more open to her rapist's family rather than a reunion with her own family. At least her rapist's cousin and sisters believed her when she said she had been raped, protected her where they could, and supported her so that she could regroup and build a life for herself. Her biological family abandoned her for ten years. Why should she make any effort to reconcile? Why shouldn't they be required to make some effort?

But that is a side issue. The central romance is beautiful.


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Simply Love Simply Quartet Mary Balogh 9780440241973 Books Reviews

Simply Love is a historical romance and is the story of two troubled souls who meet,find love and in that journey they start to heal.

Anne Jewell is a teacher at an all girl school in Bath, England. She is a fine teacher well liked by both students and teachers and also an unwed mother the results of a rape nine years before. Sydnam Butler is the steward of a remote seaside manor in Wales owned by Wulfric Bedwyn,Duke of Bewcastle, Sydnam lives a reclusive existence. He is the youngest son of an Earl, wealthy in his own right but a man with many demons, a man of deep sorrows and passions. During the war he was captured by the French and brutalized, leaving him crippled with one eye, and half his face disfigured. The handsome man he once was is now a shell of a man who cuts himself off of society and a man children call monster. Anne first spied him in the deepening dusk of evening --- a lone figure of breathtaking strength, his handsome face branded by his pain. Yet he senses in Anne a kindred soul, and between these two wary hearts, desire stirs. Unable to resist the passion that has rescued them both, Anne and Sydnam share an afternoon of exquisite lovemaking. Suddenly the unwed mother and the war-scarred veteran must make a decision that could forever alter their lives.

This is a wonderful story and an outstanding romance. Mary Balogh once again shows her talents in writing about topics that are very sensitive. She weaves a very believable story of healing, understanding and forgiveness, while creating a love story that is timeless. Simply Love is a stand alone book but is part of her Simply series, it is book 2, also characters from other series, Bedwyn series, do make an appearance now and then in the story. Sensual level I would put at a 7, Ms Balogh writes passion, and the reader feels the hot and sizzle but she is not graphic in her sex descriptions. I highly recommend this book to read again and again.
I purchased this story based on reviews. It was not my favorite love story of the Miss Martin's School teachers, but it was not the worst either. I liked Miss Martin's story the best and Susanna's was a close second.

This novel tells the love story of two wounded souls who found comfort in each other's arms. Our heroine was raped by the son of a former employer. When she found herself with child, he would not marry her. Her fiancé rejected her and would not communicate with her. Her family told her it would be best if she didn't come home for a while. Her younger sister marries her fiancé. Though the author does not specifically state this- It is implied that Anne's fiancé and sister have been lovers while Anne was working as a governess in another town. Sarah's eldest son and Anne's son are both 9 years old. Anne mercifully finds work as a teacher and she and her son enjoy a simple life in Bath for several years. YES, suspend belief for a moment and imagine an unwed mother in Regency England living and working at a school for girls. Imagine most of the paying families continuing to send their innocent daughters to be taught by her. You have to suspend belief or this story won't work at all.

Our hero is the younger son of a peer who loses his right arm, right eye, and the normal features of half his face while serving during the Napoleonic Wars. Although he is a peer and wealthy, he has taken the job of a duke's steward and secluded himself in Wales.

There are certainly a few tender and romantic moments in this book. It was refreshing to see the hero and heroine return to visit their families after years of separation.

The heroine spends quite a bit of time feeling sorry for herself and avoiding people because she thinks they will not accept an unwed mother. Thankfully, she doesn't protest as much as her colleagues when it comes to marriage. I have grown weary of the books with heroes who must repeatedly beg the heroine to marry them before the proposal is accepted.

I don't know how realistic it is to have a duke's family and the heroine's son's father's family welcome an unwed mother and her illegitimate son into their fold and treat her and her son as equals. But novels aren't always based in historical truth, are they?
Just really, really lovely. It's a story of two damaged souls who help each other begin again.

The hero was horribly injured in the Peninsular Wars. He feels he has been made untouchable.

The heroine worked as a governess, where she was raped, left pregnant, and abandoned by her family.

Neither the hero's nor the heroine's trauma is recent. They both survived and have built new, productive lives for themselves. But, though they are okay, they both long for more.

Benevolent friends introduce these lost souls to one another, and they slowly awake to the possibility that they can more than simply survive. They can dream.

Wonderfully brave and lovable hero. He's great. Lovely (though hesitant) heroine. A great rootable pairing.

My only strong criticism is the pressure on the heroine to forgive the family who abandoned her when she needed them most. I don't know how or why she should forgive them. I was also uncomfortable with her rapist's relatives claiming kinship with her son against her wishes. And yet it says something about her worthless family that at one point I found myself hoping that when the story stressed reunion with family that it would result in her being more open to her rapist's family rather than a reunion with her own family. At least her rapist's cousin and sisters believed her when she said she had been raped, protected her where they could, and supported her so that she could regroup and build a life for herself. Her biological family abandoned her for ten years. Why should she make any effort to reconcile? Why shouldn't they be required to make some effort?

But that is a side issue. The central romance is beautiful.