The Desire for Dearborne by V.B. Kildaire
Title: The Desire for Dearborne
Author: V.B. Kildaire
Tags: Historical, romance, drama, angst, mm romance, new relationship, october, review, kildaire, okay, fun
Pages: 276 pgs
Rating: Okay/Fun
Blurb: Leander Mayfield is the only surviving son of a poor farmer... or so he believes until the day he learns he is in fact the new Earl of Dearborne. Still recovering from a lingering illness, the sensitive young man travels to Great Britain to claim his estate and embarks upon a bewildering new life.
Julien Sutcliffe, the Earl of Blackstone, is suffering from ennui. He's tired and bored with all the finery and wealth and wonders about him. Then he meets this refreshingly naive American Earl, newly arrived in England, and suddenly the world comes alive around him again.
Irresistibly drawn to one another, Julien finds himself besotted, and Leander is equally smitten. But just when they think they may have finally found happiness together, Julien and Leander discover that something--or someone--is determined to separate them permanently.
Hey all, I don't know if I posted this before but I have been slowly posting and back posting, everything off here onto GoodReads.com. You can find me here, if you're interested.
'The Desire for Dearborne', first off was a well written historical romance. It contained a number the cliche elements dashing earl, a poor but educated and attractive man comes into money, and an evil villain. For the most part I enjoyed this book, I liked watching the two main characters interact with each other. The book was not over polluted with sex scenes, which added to its charm. However, the sex scenes that were included in the book were fairly simple and straight forward. The simplicity of the physical interaction can be seen as a good thing or a bad thing. I think in this case it worked if there had been more sex it would have gotten boring. However, I don't go into a book looking for lots of hot sex, I find that boring as well.
There were a couple of things that frustrated me about this book. First the villain is really, really, really obvious. You totally saw it coming from a mile away. Perhaps not the exact way that things took place, but good enough. I think the simple fact that Lender didn't believe Julien when he warned him was enough. Also, one of the things that really frustrated me was this. If there are all these rumors about what Lender's cousin has done, how come there are never any details given about them? People speak of Julien's rumors in detail and yet it's only 'people talk about him', etc. I think that Julien's cause would have been much more believable with rumors after all he's obvious heard talk somewhere.
That was the one thing that really frustrated me with this novel. Beyond that I enjoyed and could accept what was going on. Even my frustration with Julien's self absorbed apathy at the end, work. Mostly I think because of the time period and the miss understanding involved in words, etc.
On the whole, I thought that 'The Desire for Dearbourne', was well written and a fun read. I would be willing to pick up another novel by V.B. Kildaire in the future. :)
Author: V.B. Kildaire
Tags: Historical, romance, drama, angst, mm romance, new relationship, october, review, kildaire, okay, fun
Pages: 276 pgs
Rating: Okay/Fun
Blurb: Leander Mayfield is the only surviving son of a poor farmer... or so he believes until the day he learns he is in fact the new Earl of Dearborne. Still recovering from a lingering illness, the sensitive young man travels to Great Britain to claim his estate and embarks upon a bewildering new life.
Julien Sutcliffe, the Earl of Blackstone, is suffering from ennui. He's tired and bored with all the finery and wealth and wonders about him. Then he meets this refreshingly naive American Earl, newly arrived in England, and suddenly the world comes alive around him again.
Irresistibly drawn to one another, Julien finds himself besotted, and Leander is equally smitten. But just when they think they may have finally found happiness together, Julien and Leander discover that something--or someone--is determined to separate them permanently.
Hey all, I don't know if I posted this before but I have been slowly posting and back posting, everything off here onto GoodReads.com. You can find me here, if you're interested.
'The Desire for Dearborne', first off was a well written historical romance. It contained a number the cliche elements dashing earl, a poor but educated and attractive man comes into money, and an evil villain. For the most part I enjoyed this book, I liked watching the two main characters interact with each other. The book was not over polluted with sex scenes, which added to its charm. However, the sex scenes that were included in the book were fairly simple and straight forward. The simplicity of the physical interaction can be seen as a good thing or a bad thing. I think in this case it worked if there had been more sex it would have gotten boring. However, I don't go into a book looking for lots of hot sex, I find that boring as well.
There were a couple of things that frustrated me about this book. First the villain is really, really, really obvious. You totally saw it coming from a mile away. Perhaps not the exact way that things took place, but good enough. I think the simple fact that Lender didn't believe Julien when he warned him was enough. Also, one of the things that really frustrated me was this. If there are all these rumors about what Lender's cousin has done, how come there are never any details given about them? People speak of Julien's rumors in detail and yet it's only 'people talk about him', etc. I think that Julien's cause would have been much more believable with rumors after all he's obvious heard talk somewhere.
That was the one thing that really frustrated me with this novel. Beyond that I enjoyed and could accept what was going on. Even my frustration with Julien's self absorbed apathy at the end, work. Mostly I think because of the time period and the miss understanding involved in words, etc.
On the whole, I thought that 'The Desire for Dearbourne', was well written and a fun read. I would be willing to pick up another novel by V.B. Kildaire in the future. :)