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A review by attytheresa
The Meaning of Love by Stephanie Laurens
2.0
Really disappointing, and the very reason for high expectations when starting this contributed largely to my disappointment.
This was the long awaited consummation of Julian and Melissa's love story so sweetly started in Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Chronicles when both were quite young. Yet because that young love was so pure and sweet, with a gentle parting, when they meet again here as full adults, never having fallen in love with others, there is no drama at all. Just a sense of instant closure. Even the introduction of a complex murder, blackmail, and succession plot aimed at Julien and his family does little to wake up this complacent story. Missing too were some of the special connections that lit up their youthful love, most specifically the melding of their voices in song.
I did however love the introduction of the ball of fluff puppy named Ulysses.
This was the long awaited consummation of Julian and Melissa's love story so sweetly started in Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Chronicles when both were quite young. Yet because that young love was so pure and sweet, with a gentle parting, when they meet again here as full adults, never having fallen in love with others, there is no drama at all. Just a sense of instant closure. Even the introduction of a complex murder, blackmail, and succession plot aimed at Julien and his family does little to wake up this complacent story. Missing too were some of the special connections that lit up their youthful love, most specifically the melding of their voices in song.
I did however love the introduction of the ball of fluff puppy named Ulysses.