She Walks in Beauty (Against All Expectations #3)
Yet Clara wonders if this is the life she really wants, especially when she learns her best friend has also set her sights on Franklin De Vries. When a man appears who seems to love her simply for who she is, and gossip backlash turns ugly, Clara realizes it's not just her heart at stake—the future of her family depends on how she plays the game.
(originally published at http://storybound.blogspot.com/2012/0...)Swoon. I adore this book. It's beautiful and so, so sweet. I so enjoyed reading what a young girl's life was like in the 1890s from the fashion to the etiquette to learning the dances to trying to win the heart of men to having an appointed time of a certain day or days for when suitors or friends could visit (call on). However, um, can we talk about corsets? I had no idea those things were as crazy/dangerous as they were. I knew,
What Clara Carter would like to do is go to college at Vassar. What she is forced to do though is to become a young debutant. When the De Vries brothers return to New York Clara is forced to debut a year early. Her Aunt and father wish her to marry the elder brother Franklin De Vries, heir to the De Vries fortune. Clara's aunt takes on the task of teaching Clara all that she needs to know to catch the heir. The first thing that she demands is that Clara's corset be cinched to make her have an 18
Tuesday, January 3, 2012She Walks in Beauty SIRI MITCHELLSiri Mitchell has done it again! She has gained another loyal reader.She Walks in Beauty has sealed it for me. This is a story revealing the true worth of a soul. The very first book I reviewed here was Siri Mitchell's newer book, A Heart Most Worthy (2011). I then heard about She Walks in Beauty (2010). I found it at our local library and checked it out to take on our road trip to our daughter's. Now I must hunt up her other earlier
A good nights sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside. --Lemony SnicketI suspected when I began She Walks in Beauty by Siri Mitchell that the above quote would prove particularly true in this case. I was right. 2 am baby! Not close to my record, but not bad ;) Plot: It is the 1890s and Clara
I absolutely loved this book, though Clara often angered me with her assumptions that were way off base. This book was delightful!!!
Kindle freebie romance. Except not so much.Clara Carter is a 17 year old New York debutante during the Gilded Age. Her comfortable life is upended when wealthy and suave Franklin De Vries comes back into town and Clara's bossy aunt determines that Clara is going to snag him. Endless rounds of tortuous corset fittings (squeezing Clara's 21 inch waist into an 18 inch dress ... sheesh, I wish I still had a 25 inch waist!), too-small gloves, lessons in manners and deportment, and other painful and
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Paperback | Pages: 392 pages Rating: 3.88 | 5392 Users | 598 Reviews
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Title | : | She Walks in Beauty (Against All Expectations #3) |
Author | : | Siri Mitchell |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 392 pages |
Published | : | April 1st 2010 by Bethany House |
Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Christian Fiction. Romance. Historical Romance. Christian |
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For a young society woman seeking a favorable marriage in the late 1890s, so much depends on her social season debut. Clara Carter has been given one goal: secure the affections of the city's most eligible bachelor. Debuting means plenty of work—there are corsets to be fitted, dances to master, manners to perfect. Her training soon pays off, however, as celebrity's spotlight turns Clara into a society-page darling.Yet Clara wonders if this is the life she really wants, especially when she learns her best friend has also set her sights on Franklin De Vries. When a man appears who seems to love her simply for who she is, and gossip backlash turns ugly, Clara realizes it's not just her heart at stake—the future of her family depends on how she plays the game.
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Original Title: | She Walks in Beauty |
ISBN: | 0764204335 (ISBN13: 9780764204333) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Against All Expectations #3 |
Setting: | New York City, New York,1891(United States) |
Literary Awards: | Christy Award Nominee for Historical Romance (2011), INSPY for Historical Fiction (2010) |
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Ratings: 3.88 From 5392 Users | 598 ReviewsCriticize Appertaining To Books She Walks in Beauty (Against All Expectations #3)
Set in New York during the Gilded Age of the Vanderbilts, Astors, Rockefellers and their huge mansions, Clara Carter is 17 and is pushed to make her debut in society by her aunt and father. Her job is to capture Franklin DeVries, the heir to an extremely wealthy family fortune in order to recoup her father's losses due to the Bank Panic. But Clara dreams of a marriage of love.The characters were so well developed in this story. Poor Clara was torn between what she wanted a marriage to be, and(originally published at http://storybound.blogspot.com/2012/0...)Swoon. I adore this book. It's beautiful and so, so sweet. I so enjoyed reading what a young girl's life was like in the 1890s from the fashion to the etiquette to learning the dances to trying to win the heart of men to having an appointed time of a certain day or days for when suitors or friends could visit (call on). However, um, can we talk about corsets? I had no idea those things were as crazy/dangerous as they were. I knew,
What Clara Carter would like to do is go to college at Vassar. What she is forced to do though is to become a young debutant. When the De Vries brothers return to New York Clara is forced to debut a year early. Her Aunt and father wish her to marry the elder brother Franklin De Vries, heir to the De Vries fortune. Clara's aunt takes on the task of teaching Clara all that she needs to know to catch the heir. The first thing that she demands is that Clara's corset be cinched to make her have an 18
Tuesday, January 3, 2012She Walks in Beauty SIRI MITCHELLSiri Mitchell has done it again! She has gained another loyal reader.She Walks in Beauty has sealed it for me. This is a story revealing the true worth of a soul. The very first book I reviewed here was Siri Mitchell's newer book, A Heart Most Worthy (2011). I then heard about She Walks in Beauty (2010). I found it at our local library and checked it out to take on our road trip to our daughter's. Now I must hunt up her other earlier
A good nights sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside. --Lemony SnicketI suspected when I began She Walks in Beauty by Siri Mitchell that the above quote would prove particularly true in this case. I was right. 2 am baby! Not close to my record, but not bad ;) Plot: It is the 1890s and Clara
I absolutely loved this book, though Clara often angered me with her assumptions that were way off base. This book was delightful!!!
Kindle freebie romance. Except not so much.Clara Carter is a 17 year old New York debutante during the Gilded Age. Her comfortable life is upended when wealthy and suave Franklin De Vries comes back into town and Clara's bossy aunt determines that Clara is going to snag him. Endless rounds of tortuous corset fittings (squeezing Clara's 21 inch waist into an 18 inch dress ... sheesh, I wish I still had a 25 inch waist!), too-small gloves, lessons in manners and deportment, and other painful and
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