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“This is Mary Balogh at her riveting best.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber
Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy. Content in a quiet life with friends and family, the young widow has no desire to marry again. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoops her up in his arms after a fall, she feels a sensation that both shocks and emboldens her. Hugo is a gentleman in name only: a war hero whose bravery earned him a title, a merchant’s son who inherited his wealth. He is happiest when working the land, but duty and title now demand that he finds a wife. Hugo doesn’t wish to court Gwen, yet he cannot resist her guileless manner, infectious laugh, and lovely face. He wants her, but will she have him? The dour ex-military officer who so gallantly carried Gwen to safety is a man who needs a lesson in winning a woman’s heart. But through courtship and seduction, Gwen soon finds that with each kiss, and with every caress, Hugo captivates her more—with his desire, with his love, and with the promise of forever.
“[Mary Balogh] writes with wit and wisdom. . . . The Proposal is both moving and entertaining and the beginning of what promises to be an outstanding series.”—Romance Reviews Today
“A historical romance of unusual thoughtfulness and depth.”—Publishers Weekly
Includes a preview of Mary Balogh’s The Arrangement
- Sales Rank: #156642 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Dell
- Published on: 2013-05-28
- Released on: 2013-05-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x 1.02" w x 4.20" l, .35 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 384 pages
- Great product!
From Booklist
When Gwendoline Grayson, Lady Muir, pays a visit to an old acquaintance on the Cornwell coast, she never imagined a sprained ankle would open the door to romance. Let alone with Hugo, Lord Trentham, who was born a commoner, made a lord for his heroic leading of a “forlorn hope” in the Peninsular War, and became wealthy due to his late father’s business acumen. Though appearing to live ideal lives on the surface, each is hiding horrible emotional wounds for which they blame themselves. Hugo needs a wife so he can fulfill his father’s wish and find a suitable match for his sister. His plan is to find a woman of his own class and live a simple life, but when his sister expresses interest in hobnobbing with the ton, Hugo proposes a mock engagement to Gwen. Balogh’s richly dimensional characters are so very real as she makes the reader feel part of life and a great variety of relationships during the Regency era. --Diana Tixier Herald
Review
“This is Mary Balogh at her riveting best. Everyone loves a wounded hero, and Balogh introduces us to an unforgettable one who discovers the healing power of love.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber
“[Mary Balogh] writes with wit and wisdom. . . . The Proposal is both moving and entertaining and the beginning of what promises to be an outstanding series.”—Romance Reviews Today
“A historical romance of unusual thoughtfulness and depth.”—Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Mary Balogh is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books, including the acclaimed Slightly and Simply novels, the Mistress trilogy, and the five titles in her Huxtable series: First Comes Marriage, Then Comes Seduction, At Last Comes Love, Seducing an Angel, and A Secret Affair. A former teacher, she grew up in Wales and now lives in Canada.
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144 of 147 people found the following review helpful.
Touched and engaged me
By A. Reid
Mary Balogh's books are not always perfect for me - the beginning of this one seemed exposition heavy as she is obviously setting up a new romance series - but, good heavens, when she hits her stride that woman touches my heart. I grin like an idiot, tear up, lose track of everything around me. I can't pull myself away. She draws me in completely.
This romance is unusual in a lot of ways. The hero is a gruff, socially awkward introvert; the heroine, while more traditional in some ways, is a widow in her 30s with a pronounced limp. Both of them have traumas in their pasts that they have each been working in their way to overcome, and both have been living life in a kind of holding pattern as they work their way towards recovery. The chemistry between them is, to me, electric - fueled, I believe, by the fact that in spite of their visible differences, they are similar at the core. Devoted, dutiful and brave, they suffer in silence. In the course of their courtship, they learn to speak to each other, to themselves, to others.
Without wanting to give too much away, I'll say that those who enjoy rollicking adventures would probably do better to look elsewhere. There are no highwaymen or spies lurking in the shadows. The biggest challenges this couple have to overcome are internal. The adventure is emotional. To put it bluntly, there's a lot of navel-gazing here. But this didn't bother me; I found the lead characters very well-rounded, well-realized people, and I invested heavily in the outcome. They could not themselves have been rooting any more for their happily-ever-after than I was.
I enjoyed their tale tremendously. To those who like emotionally complex, character-driven romance, I recommend.
57 of 60 people found the following review helpful.
From the Mary Balogh Recipe Files
By Ann Elliot
Regency romances are much like the locked-room type of mystery story. There are only so many options and the rules of the genre must be obeyed. Mary Balogh is a master of Regency novels. She uses limited story elements wisely, and can probably use them to create an infinite number of tales.
In "The Proposal," she has chosen to explore guilt, one of her favorite themes. Both Hugo, the hero, and Gwen, the heroine, suffer from deep regrets and survivor's guilt. There is also the theme of class distinction -- in this instance, she is of the aristocracy and he is middle class. To that mixture, fold in the strong, silent personality of the hero and the heroine's very conscious cheerfulness and refusal to give in to self-pity. Stir in Balogh's penchant for characters making love outdoors. Balogh uses those selections from her author's bag of tricks over and over, but always in different combinations.
"The Proposal" has a tried-and-true Balogh plot: a couple find mutual attraction, make love, and then spend the rest of the story sorting out their emotions and learning about each other to arrive back at intimacy at the end of the book.
Some Balogh books are heavy on pathos. Others are light-hearted. This one treads a sort of middle path between the two.
There is some feeling of deja vu as bits of other Balogh novels waft through the story. For instance, the "I am going to marry the first woman I see" ploy from "The Ideal Wife" resurfaces, but here it is a joke among the hero and his friends rather than a basis for the novel.
Whether or not a reader enjoys this book will depend upon how that person likes the ingredients in Balogh's current confection. I enjoyed the book. There are evil people, bitter people, kind people, insightful people, and annoyingly self-pitying people among the characters. Just as there are in real life. I know people just like that and prefer them to, say, the psychotic madman featured in many romance novels. I've never met one of those in real life.
Only Hugo seemed too much of a one-note personality. He is morose, blunt, and scowling. Gwen finds that there is much more to him than that, but it takes her a long time. And, at the end, he has changed a bit but about 80 percent of the time he is still morose, blunt, and scowling. That was the off-tasting morsel in the little dessert of a book for me.
50 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
On the whole, it worked very well for me
By Marcy L. Thompson
While Mary Balogh is one of the more consistent writers of Regency Historical novels, I worried about this novel before I read it. It bears the burden of being both the first book in a new series and the thirteenth set in the milieu occupied by the heroine. Either of these factors can be a drag on a novel, for different reasons, and it's not hard to imagine why having both present at the same time could really drag a book down.
The first novel in a series, especially one like this, where the main group of characters has an annual meeting at which they all show up and spend time together, has to establish the series setting (is it the marriage stories of the six Bedwyn siblings? the unexpected romances of a group of teachers at a select seminary for girls? the stories of a family centered around what happens to ae earl's family when the earl dies young and the title goes to the son of a vicar living in genteel poverty in a remote village?). At the same time, the novel has to stand alone as a good story on its own.
The thirteenth story in a group of connected characters has the problem of serving both new readers and those who have read the previous twelve books. People like the brother of the heroine and her favorite-cousin-who-was-raised-with-her-as-a-sister have to make sense to people who have never read the previous books, while still ringing true for returning readers. In fact, the one part of the book I did not like was almost certainly an attempt to deal with this issue. At one point, the heroine decides to tell her cousin-raised-as-a-sister the full story of her first marriage, which she has until now kept a closely guarded secret. As someone who really likes the cousin-raised-as-a-sister, I wanted to see this conversation, but in thinking about it, that would have been difficult, since any such depiction would almost certainly either unbalance the book, while trying to tread that line of letting new readers know enough about Lauren (the cousin) to make the scene plausible without making it much longer than its importance to the story warrants. I would have loved to have seen that conversation, but it's probably for the best that it took place off-stage.
These introductory comments are meant to indicate the burdens that this book had to bear because it is not only the story of Grwndoline and Hugo's courtship. There were a lot of people hanging around who needed to be present in this story, as their tales will come later in this present series. And there were an amazing number of people on-stage or referred to who have already had their stories told. What's more, some of these characters are important in this book, and they have to act in ways that move this story forward while still maintaining plausible continuity from how they behaved in earlier books. It's a lot of extra stuff to fit into a book that also has to tell a good story in itself.
Luckily, Mary Balogh is up to the challenge, although I have to say only "just barely!" Occasionally, the whole thing threatens to collapse under the weight of all the expectations it has to manage, but for the most part, the book manages to focus on the main characters, as is appropriate for a romance novel.
As usual for this author, both leads are very human, with strengths and flaws, and both as suffering the after-effects of earlier traumatic times in their lives. When they meet, neither much likes the other, and even when they realize that first impressions are wrong, and they do like many things about each other, they each have good and compelling reasons why they cannot ever marry. It's been a long time since Mary Balogh wrote a book where the "reasons" holding people apart were not actually barriers that have to be worked through. In this case, there are class issues as well as the guilt each carries from earlier events in their lives. Hugo has responded to his guilty feelings about being a war hero by burying much of his personality beneath a strong sense of duty and a somewhat dour persona. Gwen has simply chosen to respond by ensuring that she never finds herself in a similar quagmire by not remarrying.
Once it's established that these are the hero ad heroine, of course, we know that they will have a happy ending. The strength of the book lies in the unfolding of Gwen's and Hugo's secrets, to themselves and to one another. As usual, both of them are somewhat at fault for their misunderstandings, and both of them have to take risks to achieve the intimacy they finally find.
There are, as other reviewers have noted, some revisiting of themes from other books. I wasn't bothered by most of them, as they were twisted and tweaked. For instance, in The Ideal Wife, the hero swears he will marry the next plain and quiet woman he sees, and he does. In this book, the same suggestion is made as a joke to the hero in the first part of the book, and it is partly his determination not to choose a wife in that way that drives the early part of the plot. There are several other plat elements that Balogh has used to good effect in previous books, which are reused here. I suppose that when you have written as many books as this author has, in a genre with fairly narrow conventions, such reworking is inevitable. Fortunately, for the most part, they fit here well and have been altered to suit the present story.
One of the revisited plot features seemed just a little too convenient: in Lord Carew's Bride (Signet Regency Romance), the villain has harmed both the hero and the heroine, separately, at different times and in different ways. And again in this book, the serious villain has harmed both Gwen and Hugo, and he tries to hurt them both again in this book, even before he realizes that there is any connection between them (beyond casual acquaintance, anyway). This time, it seemed a little too convenient to have the same person be the nemesis of these two characters from such very different backgrounds.
Anyway, I mostly loved this book. I liked both Gwen and Hugo, and was able to relate to their struggles as well as to their joys. However, the occasional weight of the new-series/13th-book-since-Lily-invaded-Lauren's-wedding, plus the issue I had with the villain being so conveniently the same guy for both the leads, cause me to make this a very rare 4-star rating for a Balogh novel. Totally worth reading, and I look forward to the next one in the series. And I was delighted to see Gwen get her happy ending after she played minor character roles in so many previous novels. It's unfair that Wilma got her happy ending before Gwen did when Gwen is so much nicer a person, but it was worth the wait. I will definitely be rereading this from time to time.
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