- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Harlequin, Mills & Boon (7 Aug 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0263867943
- ISBN-13: 978-0263867947
- Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 10.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 546,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The plot of this story is a real romantic classic - heroine's heart has been secretly lost to her childhood friend and it's only after they're parted for a while and time takes its toll that the hero realises what he's had all along.
And the characters in 'The Transformation' should tick all the right boxes, too, with the spirited heroine coming back from following her father to the Napoleonic wars and the careful yet intelligent hero bowled over by her and anxious to recapture their closeness of youth, and of course that little bit more...
Unfortunately, it doesn't achieve its promise of a great read. Firstly, it's written in a style that I found quite stilted and hard to get into. Second, the characters never really seemed to come alive, and I struggled to believe they could even have been friends, let alone have any kind of romantic feelings for each other. Though I understand Beth the heroine is playing extra careful around the man she's loved for years (Philip, the hero), I still never got the impression that there was any kind of feelings involved. Not so great in a romance story! Then there was a couple of irritants - phrases like 'None the less' repeated and repeated, and some proofreading errors that jarred.
Finally, for the second half of the book, I felt as though you weren't just reading Beth and Philip's story, you were being set up for the second in the pair of books about a completely different character, who kind of overtakes Philip in his own story! Then instead of finishing this book with hero and heroine, you are taken into a epilogue which is totally focused on this other hero character, and nothing whatsoever to do with this story!! And though the author does explain at the beginning of the book that this is the first of two stories about people who've been involved in the Peninsular Campaign, and she's obviously introducing the main character of the second tale here, that shouldn't have been allowed to dominate this first story so much, as I felt it did, particularly when you're closing a book supposed to be about 'The Transformation of Miss Ashworth' centred on a character who's neither her nor her hero!
And the characters in 'The Transformation' should tick all the right boxes, too, with the spirited heroine coming back from following her father to the Napoleonic wars and the careful yet intelligent hero bowled over by her and anxious to recapture their closeness of youth, and of course that little bit more...
Unfortunately, it doesn't achieve its promise of a great read. Firstly, it's written in a style that I found quite stilted and hard to get into. Second, the characters never really seemed to come alive, and I struggled to believe they could even have been friends, let alone have any kind of romantic feelings for each other. Though I understand Beth the heroine is playing extra careful around the man she's loved for years (Philip, the hero), I still never got the impression that there was any kind of feelings involved. Not so great in a romance story! Then there was a couple of irritants - phrases like 'None the less' repeated and repeated, and some proofreading errors that jarred.
Finally, for the second half of the book, I felt as though you weren't just reading Beth and Philip's story, you were being set up for the second in the pair of books about a completely different character, who kind of overtakes Philip in his own story! Then instead of finishing this book with hero and heroine, you are taken into a epilogue which is totally focused on this other hero character, and nothing whatsoever to do with this story!! And though the author does explain at the beginning of the book that this is the first of two stories about people who've been involved in the Peninsular Campaign, and she's obviously introducing the main character of the second tale here, that shouldn't have been allowed to dominate this first story so much, as I felt it did, particularly when you're closing a book supposed to be about 'The Transformation of Miss Ashworth' centred on a character who's neither her nor her hero!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
a pleasant well-written romance
13 May 2011
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The story: basically the hero in his youth chose the wrong person to marry.
The heroine (younger than the hero) ran off to her father, who was in the
military, where she did many acts of great kindness, e.g., digging out musket
balls from soldiers that the surgeons ignored after triaging then into the
category of likely not surviving. The story starts six-years later when the
heroine returns to her father's estate. The heroine's father is dead and she is
independently wealthy. The hero owns the neighboring estate. After many
twists and turns everything turns out well for the hero and heroine.
There are a number of likeable characters besides the hero and heroine, e.g.,
there is a nice romance in the background between the heroines friend and the
owner of another neighboring estate.
The heroine is quite solid and human. I like that the heroine has a spine and
does not melt into a quivering defenseless puddle when the hero touches her
hand (as happens in too many romances). Altogether this is a very pleasant
four-and-a-half star read.
The heroine (younger than the hero) ran off to her father, who was in the
military, where she did many acts of great kindness, e.g., digging out musket
balls from soldiers that the surgeons ignored after triaging then into the
category of likely not surviving. The story starts six-years later when the
heroine returns to her father's estate. The heroine's father is dead and she is
independently wealthy. The hero owns the neighboring estate. After many
twists and turns everything turns out well for the hero and heroine.
There are a number of likeable characters besides the hero and heroine, e.g.,
there is a nice romance in the background between the heroines friend and the
owner of another neighboring estate.
The heroine is quite solid and human. I like that the heroine has a spine and
does not melt into a quivering defenseless puddle when the hero touches her
hand (as happens in too many romances). Altogether this is a very pleasant
four-and-a-half star read.
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