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I read this book years ago when it first came out & I couldn't get enough romance books to read. It was pretty good then but oh how dated it is. I liked the heroine, Faine a lot. I can't say the same for the hero. A bigger egotist would be hard to find. I kind of suspect that at first he was using his attraction for Faine to cover up his growing feelings for the wife of his crippled brother. The brother was no dummy & suspected what was going on. Personally, if I had more or less caught my husband-moments after the wedding- consoling the other woman, I would head for the nearest lawyer for an annulment & everyone be damned. Of course, there the book would end. Despite the protestations that he had never let his feelings for his sister-in-law go all the way, the heroine gives him the benefit of the doubt. Things really hit the fan when the brother dies in a car accident. Again, personally, I wouldn't put up with ANY woman clinging to my husband-even in grief-the way the sister in law did. I cheered when Faine had had ENOUGH & walked out on the whole mess. Of course there's a HEA but the hero had to work at it. This book is a bit dated but if you can overlook the hero's ego, you will like it. I always liked books by Robyn Donald.


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Mansion For My Love Robyn Donald 9780373105670 Books Reviews

Well, this is what justifiable homicide was made for.

Libby, dear sweet Libby the H’s sister-in-law, is so wonderful that the H Burke, dear sweet, disloyal Burke, calls her “gallant and loyal” to the the heroine. Spare me from creatures that bat their eyelashes and cling to the H’s strength and never cross the line of adultery, but the whole wide world knows about their sacrifice. Gavin, her paraplegic husband, was bitter? He was a paraplegic with a wife making goo goo eyes at his brother who reciprocated because poor Libby…blah blah blah.

4 stars for writing and a real story. A negative million stars for romance as the H murders the concept of love again and again. It’s not enough to fall for his brother’s wife, but everybody knows about it from the worrying grandmother, the suspicious husband/brother, the maid. Everybody except for the heroine who will be the beard for his unrequited love. The scene where she finds out is very well played out which makes it all the more sickening. Compounding that is the H’s insistence that in some way the heroine owes him a happy marriage to complete his life. Not a nice guy.

Fortunately or unfortunately depending how you look at it, Robyn Donald’w writing is excellent. Pity the contemporary HP writers condemned to vacuous and ridiculous titles with “Virgin”, “Tycoon”, “Mistress” etc tossed around with slick, superficial plotting and dialogue. RD has Shakespeare in the title and the book.

The H finally confesses his love to the heroine, and I don’t really care if he means it or not. Yes, he’s good looking, witty, wealthy and charismatic, but he has to be. He is a rotten character and a rotten person, and the heroine chose poorly.

Three stars is all I can give it, but it is so well-written and fleshed out which makes it all the more a horror show.
This book had the characters well developed and I enjoyed the sparing between Faine and Burke. The part that really got me was in chapter 11 when Burke comes back and Faine says "It doesn't matter." Well I think if my husband had just told me he tried to make love to another woman and couldn't because it just wouldn't work. That to me would have been where I would have had to take some time to think and make him worry. As this story was written in 1983 times were different and woman put up with different ways from their husbands. The book just needed more pages to complete the ending.
I thought it was fine to see how Faine fell in love with Burke. Would have liked his view point but that doesn't seem to be done in this book. I guess my problem with the story is that Libby and Burke believed they were in love with each other. Burke married Faine though. Libby was married to Burke's brother, Gavin. Both Libby and Burke thought Gavin didn't know about each other's feelings? Um . . . even grandma could sense something there. I think grandma was happy when Burke married Faine she seemed to really like her and Faine liked Elled, grandma. So of course Burke uses that as a means to keep Faine at his side. He wants to continue to have this marriage and he will hold up his vows. Soon Gavin dies and all bets are off?! Faine tells Burke to go and of course he does so. He thinks to try his luck at Libby. My problem is what about what grandma thinks now? They were all concerned before but now they don't care because it meshes with what Burke and Libby want? Perhaps Faine should have tried her luck with the other guy that she had been dating before and then I would have felt better about the ending. Yet she doesn't and Burke shows up. All is forgiven in a few short pages. Where is the groveling???? I liked Faine and I liked some of the other aspects of this story but I'm not sure about the ending. So I will just say it was an okay read.
I read this book years ago when it first came out & I couldn't get enough romance books to read. It was pretty good then but oh how dated it is. I liked the heroine, Faine a lot. I can't say the same for the hero. A bigger egotist would be hard to find. I kind of suspect that at first he was using his attraction for Faine to cover up his growing feelings for the wife of his crippled brother. The brother was no dummy & suspected what was going on. Personally, if I had more or less caught my husband-moments after the wedding- consoling the other woman, I would head for the nearest lawyer for an annulment & everyone be damned. Of course, there the book would end. Despite the protestations that he had never let his feelings for his sister-in-law go all the way, the heroine gives him the benefit of the doubt. Things really hit the fan when the brother dies in a car accident. Again, personally, I wouldn't put up with ANY woman clinging to my husband-even in grief-the way the sister in law did. I cheered when Faine had had ENOUGH & walked out on the whole mess. Of course there's a HEA but the hero had to work at it. This book is a bit dated but if you can overlook the hero's ego, you will like it. I always liked books by Robyn Donald.