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I'm not feeling at all well today. So, a day in bed reading a romance novel seemed to be an excellent idea. And it was! Finished this novel within a few hours and that includes breaks to change and fold laundry.

This book was interesting enough to keep me focused but shallow in writing. Usually I can envision characters pretty early on in a story. This time I had no idea Gavin was blond until near the middle. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention. But if so, that points to the novels inability to keep my complete interest.

The three girls are all stereotypes and that makes me sad. It's fortuitous they're all so beautiful though. Makes the next novels easier to write as love must surely find them soon!

The story is what kept me. War spies and murder have always been my weakness. So though I longed for a better knowledge of the characters and a hint of real chemistry from the main couple, I read until the end for the mystery.


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The Season Sarah MacLean Books Reviews

It's About Alex, Vivi and Ella are all set for their debut Season, but they're far from the poised, proper Regency ladies they're expected to become. Least of all, Alex, whose debut comes first, and somehow (perhaps because she just can't help but meddle) she ends up embroiled in the mystery of the Earl of Blackmoor's unexpected demise.

Even more unexpected, Alex finds herself falling for the new Earl of Blackmoor- a family friend she's known as Gavin all her life. Surrounded by a stable of over-protective brothers, and a society that demands nothing less than propriety, Alex is bound to have the most interesting Season yet.

MacLean has a gift for creating intricate settings- all the fine details that make up this regency world are beautifully drawn, but she never lapses into a place where the setting is more fascinating than the story. Each of her characters are handsomely drawn, from the spirited trio of girls that make up the centerpiece of the story, from the galloping hordes of Alex's brothers, to even the unnamed, but arched-browed ladies of the Ton.

I have to admit a particular fondness for secondary player, Freddie Stanhope- who swears to be a rake and womanizer of the worst sort, but whom I suspect (and I hope I will discover in future installments of this series,) is probably just a sweetheart, deep down inside.

Would I Give This Book to a Teen The spirited young women in this novel play within the confines of the society in which they live, instead of shamelessly breaking them. Definitely a treat for young women who love Austen, historicals, and sweet romance.

Would I Give This Book to an Adult Definitely to Regency fans, and to anyone with a taste for something satisfyingly romantic. Because it deals with the first season, and so many novels of the era, and current novels about the era, deal with the same, I think this is a perfect book for adult readers to slip into the YA conception of the Regency world.

My 15 Year Old Son Says He thinks the brown haired girl on the cover is kind of cute. He refuses to specify which brown haired girl.
THE SEASON is a Young Adults novel by Sarah MacLean. For fans of her adult romances, that means that this novel is definitely more sexually restrained than her normal book. However, her great characters and intense detail to plotting, setting and dialog is definitely present.

The heroine is Lady Alexandra Stafford who is seventeen and having her debut in society. Alex expects to find society boring with the prospect of finding a husband who will want her to be mindless troubling. She enjoys spending time with her two friends, Ella and Vivi. (As an aside, it seemed that the book was set up to be the first of a series telling the stories of all three friends, although the Season is the only book so far). All three are making their debuts and are intelligent and daring young women.

The hero is Gavin Sewell, the Earl of Blackmoor. Gavin and Alex have known each other all their lives. Gavin, six years older than Alex, is good friends with her three brothers. I liked the character of Gavin because he was made more complicated by his grief over his father's death.

Of course, Alex and Gavin are soon engaged in a budding romance. The book keeps it clean so there is little physical relationship involved beyond a few kisses. I knew that going into the story, so it didn't disappoint me.

Gavin and Alex are also enmeshed in the mystery of who killed Gavin's father. The mystery is frankly not very compelling. The villain seemed obvious to me from the beginning, but the resolution of the story still kept my interest because the characters were so good. Although the end destination seemed obvious to me, there were some twists along the way that kept my interest as well.
The only false note in the story is that the characters of Alex and her friends seem a bit too modern in their thinking and attitudes. There is a definite subversive nature to the younger people in the story...a sense that they are living lives hiding their reality from the older generation. The older characters seem more caricatures than the younger people (one reason I found the villain to be obvious).

As a footnote, I really like the character of Freddy Stanhope. I hope that MacLean considers making him of hero of one of her adult romances.

I did enjoy the book and would recommend it to a reader who understands the genre.
I'm not feeling at all well today. So, a day in bed reading a romance novel seemed to be an excellent idea. And it was! Finished this novel within a few hours and that includes breaks to change and fold laundry.

This book was interesting enough to keep me focused but shallow in writing. Usually I can envision characters pretty early on in a story. This time I had no idea Gavin was blond until near the middle. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention. But if so, that points to the novels inability to keep my complete interest.

The three girls are all stereotypes and that makes me sad. It's fortuitous they're all so beautiful though. Makes the next novels easier to write as love must surely find them soon!

The story is what kept me. War spies and murder have always been my weakness. So though I longed for a better knowledge of the characters and a hint of real chemistry from the main couple, I read until the end for the mystery.