The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. (July)Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Though a bit stale, this well-written, often funny and occasionally tender romance has much to enjoy. However, the two make a lovable couple, and Miranda in particular shines, as do Turner's two siblings in strong secondary roles. Quinn's pitch-perfect humor remains intact, but her latest relies too much on romance conventions, including Miranda's scholarly but benignly neglectful father an even more overused device involves Turner's hot-and-cold feelings toward Miranda, which reduce the heroine to tears more than once. While I wasn't deeply offended by it, as I was with The Duke and I, or so indifferent to it that I found it utterly forgettable, as is the case with To Catch an Heiress, The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever. Now 20, and still in love, Miranda's designs are thwarted by the indiscretions of Nigel's late wife-heartbroken, Nigel isn't willing to risk another shot at love, even if it means hurting his close friend Miranda. Best-selling author Julia Quinn flawlessly combines passionate romance with 'pitch perfect humor' (Publishers Weekly). The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever was my third book by Julia Quinn, and it seems that the third try is the charm.

In this novel, Miranda falls in love with Turner, her friend Olivia's dashing older brother, when Miranda is only ten.

Quinn's first title since 1999 not to feature the Bridgerton clan ( On the Way to the Wedding), this Regency concerns Miranda Cheever, who fell in love with the aristocratic Nigel Bevelstoke, Viscount Turner, when she was 10 and he 19. The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever puts a new twist on an old romance convention: namely, the young woman desperately in love with her best friend's brother.

The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn