Title: Lessons in French
Author: Laura Kinsale
Product ISBN: 9781402237010
Publication Date: February 2010
ABOUT THE BOOK
Laura Kinsale’s unique and powerfully written love stories transcend the romance genre. In this, her first new book in five years, she delivers a poignant, funny, sexy, Regency romance sure to delight her many fans and attract a whole new readership.
Trevelyan and Callie are childhood sweethearts with a taste for adventure, until the fateful day her father discovers them embracing in the carriage house and, in a furious frenzy, drives Trevelyan away in disgrace. Nine long, lonely years later, Trevelyan returns. Callie discovers that he can still make her blood race and fill her life with excitement, but he can’t give her the one thing she wants more than anything—himself.
For Trevelyan, Callie is a spark of light in a world of darkness and deceit. Before he can bear to say his last goodbyes, he’s determined to sweep her into one last, fateful adventure, just for the two of them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Laura Kinsale is a New York Times bestselling author and both winner and multiple nominee for the Best Book of the Year award given by the Romance Writers of America. Her novel FLOWERS FROM THE STORM was chosen by readers of Glamour Magazine and the Washington Post as one of the Greatest Love Stories of All Time.
Laura believes that a romance novel can be more. More fascinating characters than you ever anticipated. More unexpected depth. Emotion to engage your heart and your mind. Stories that keep you awake and words you will remember long after you close the book.Whenever readers list their “Desert Isle Keepers,” the books they couldn’t live without, Laura Kinsale’s award-winning historical romances are included near the top.
Read more about the author on her website: http://www.laurakinsale.com/
MY THOUGHTS
It’s been a few months since I read this book and I am just now getting around to posting about it. Sorry, I have been worrying about other menial stuff like my thinning hair and waning energy level. Which, I find out may be hormonal or due to carnitine deficiency. But enough about me, let’s get back to the book.
I read this book early this year, when it was still cold and I had plenty of time indoors to read. I read several books of this genre during that time, but it is only now that I am revisiting them again. This book, is actually one that I wouldn’t mind re-reading. I’m thumbing through it again now! Stopping at the same passages that captivated me the first time around.
As the short synopsis above says, Callie and Trevylan were childhood sweethearts. Because of their social status, they were not allowed to be together. Her father separated them. Years later, the still unmarried Callie is still in the same town when Trevylan returns from his exile to be with his ailing mother. Of course, they see each other again and of course the attraction between them is still there. Actually, it’s even more intense now that they are both older. The love scenes in the book were definitely hot, but the plot and the narration of the the story is also such that you can’t put it down. It makes you want to keep reading. My favorite part is that you can ‘feel’ what the characters are going through. An overall great read!
