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The Summer of You was fun, but I did like the first book better. This time we're following Lady Jane and Byrne, whom we met last time. Jane is attending her recently refriended friend Philippa's wedding when her brother suddenly returns. He wants to send Jane and their father to their country estate, since their father isn't doing too well. Jane refuses to be banished, so she blackmails Jason into accompanying her. There she becomes reacquainted with Byrne Worth aka The Blue Raven. But their tiny town doesn't view him as the hero he is. They believe he's the highwayman who's been terrorizing everyone.

I don't really know what to say about The Summer of You. I liked it. It made me smile. Jane and Byrne were cute together and had a couple of steamy scenes. I especially liked Jane's friend Victoria who believes that she's in love with her brother and totally misses that someone else is in love with her. There is a bit of mystery as Jane decides to figure out who the real highwayman is and prove Byrne's innocence. This causes some excitement and danger toward the end. The last page is really bittersweet. It almost brought a tear to my eye!


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The Summer of You Blue Raven Kate Noble 9780425232392 Books Reviews

The hero here is a dangerous gentleman, more tortured than Kate Noble's usual love interest, making this book more intense, and more openly sexual, than her others. The tension between the main couple vibrates from the moment they meet. Fortunately, the book is still full of Noble's trademark humor and wit.

Here's one of my favorite bits- out for a late-night swim alone, the heroine has just decided that her nightgown is more trouble than it's worth.

"And then she heard it. A low, anguished, decidedly masculine groan. 'I wish you hadn't done that,' Byrne growled, only his head and shoulders above the surface, a silent predator in the water, his eyes as black as the sky above them. Jane found her scream silenced when he grabbed her shoulders and covered her mouth with a kiss."

Did anyone else notice that the hero is named Byrne? I think of it as "burn" and I think it is perfect. Burn, he does.
Lady Jane Cummings' summer has started off terribly wrong. Her brother Jason, absent for the last year, has returned home to send Jane and her ill father away from the busy city life in London to their summer home in Merrymere. Yet Jane refuses to go without Jason. She can no longer manage their father, who is forgetting where he is and who his own children are and she is tired of feeling utterly alone. Once they arrive in Merrymere, she befriends her neighbor Byrne Wroth who despite his grumpy demeanor, Jane finds attractive and charming. Byrne fought in the war where he was injured and now uses a cane to help his walk, which makes him an oddity to the people in town. Jane finds out that Byrne has been shunned from the community and labeled the "highwayman" wanted for the recent crimes that have been committed. In Jane's attempt to clear his name and find the real highwayman, Jane and Byrne become more intimate and closer than they ever expected. Jane's summer may not be so bad after all.

Historical romances are wonderful to read because some of them can take you to a time when romance was beyond sweet and tender. It isn't about an overwhelming passion but rather a gently story about the electricity with a simple brush of your hand or the innocent joys of a first kiss. The Summer of You embodies this ideal. Jane has had her season in London filled with excitement and danger. Yet Byrne gives her the opportunity to grow up, finding a lifelong companion and mature love. They are two lost souls, both going through life's miseries, using each other to find a peaceful companionship. This of course develops into something more and from there it is entirely too easy to become engrossed in this charming fairytale.

Theirs is an innocent love story that develops slowly. With each chapter, the underlying passion between them begins to build and the sweet anticipation for a first kiss makes the book even more enjoyable to read. The passion is a slow simmer that both try to deny for their own reasons, but ultimately it becomes impossible.
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"Then why do you not avail yourself of the way out? I've given you permission to end you little rehabilitation project and consider me a lost cause! Hell, I've given you ample reason today!"

"You are not a lost cause! And you're not a....a project to me!"

"The what am I, Jane? If I'm not a lost cause or a project, you don't pity me, and won't hate me, then what else is there?"

He held her gaze then, saw the rise and fall of her chest as her breath came hard and heavy. He felt every nerve in his body come alive every sensation pool at the base of his spine, as he repeated...

"What else is there?"

He saw it then, in her eyes. The awareness of what he was asking. The answer.
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Noble has an extremely rare and wonderful talent for writing. She writes with such description, and detail it is breathtaking, yet not overwhelmingly so that you loose the overall beauty of the story. You become familiarized with the town and it's people and easily visualize this world in your mind. She writes characters with many varied personalities and about many different issues in this book. You find yourself not only caring about the hero and the heroine, but the other characters as well. Basically, she writes a book you can become utterly lost in, able to read from cover to cover in one sitting.

She immerses you into a wonderful world of characters and you are rewarded with a charming, dazzling story. Some characters you will love, some you will hate, but all of it blends together flawlessly in order to create a wonderful story. Nobel will take you away to another time and place of enchantment and pure delight. A place where summer love became a love that would last forever. This book is a stunningly beautiful read that will make you sigh and make you smile at the charm of a simple romance. I would find it near impossible for anyone to not love this story.

Overall Rating 5/5
Heat Level 3/5

Lisa @ Once Upon A Chapter
When I first started this book I had a hard time getting into it. It had a slow start and at first glance I didn't really like Jane or her brother Jason. As the book progressed I got to know Jane better and realized that she was not as irritating as I thought she was and that she actually had unexpected depths. I never really warmed up to Jason, but I don't think we were required to. He serves his purpose whether the reader likes him or not.

I liked the friendship that developed between Jane and Victoria. At first Victoria seemed empty headed and naive. That is not the impression that you leave the book with. She gets some good advice and takes a long hard look at herself and admits when she was wrong. She also stands up for her friends in the face of public scorn if she believes they have nothing to be ashamed of.

As I write this I realize that this book is about not judging a book by its cover. I had a lot of preconceptions about the characters and how they would behave. They seemed to conform to my judgment at first, but by the end of the book they had come into their own and made themselves shine beyond the type I had cast them as. I really liked their character development.

I think that one of my favorite parts of the story is when Jane shoves a mirror in Byrne's face and tells him some not so nice truths. I do think she was deflecting a bit, but she had some very honest insights into his character. I like that he owned up to those things internally and came to some closure.

I think the best part of this story, for me, was the friendship that Jane and Michael had. I liked watching them get close to each other and joke and laugh long before they were married or in any scandalous situation.
The Summer of You was fun, but I did like the first book better. This time we're following Lady Jane and Byrne, whom we met last time. Jane is attending her recently refriended friend Philippa's wedding when her brother suddenly returns. He wants to send Jane and their father to their country estate, since their father isn't doing too well. Jane refuses to be banished, so she blackmails Jason into accompanying her. There she becomes reacquainted with Byrne Worth aka The Blue Raven. But their tiny town doesn't view him as the hero he is. They believe he's the highwayman who's been terrorizing everyone.

I don't really know what to say about The Summer of You. I liked it. It made me smile. Jane and Byrne were cute together and had a couple of steamy scenes. I especially liked Jane's friend Victoria who believes that she's in love with her brother and totally misses that someone else is in love with her. There is a bit of mystery as Jane decides to figure out who the real highwayman is and prove Byrne's innocence. This causes some excitement and danger toward the end. The last page is really bittersweet. It almost brought a tear to my eye!