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Lovely ending on a book where for 75% of the book, nothing happened. Peter was likable but Susanna was difficult, and continued to be. I think it hurt that the reveal was so very late. The result was a rather dull story with characters you liked, or wanted to like, but were hampered by a poorly structured book with a plot that felt terribly back-end heavy. Still the last 50 pages were Balogh gems, but the rest was unfortunately empty


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Simply Magic Mary Balogh 9780385338233 Books Reviews

This is the third book in the Simply-series after Simply Unforgettable and Simply Love. All four books in the series are about school teachers at Miss Martin`s school for girls in Bath - and this one is about Susanna Osbourne who was admitted to the school as a charity pupil when she was 12. She is invited to spend a month in the summer with the heroine of Simply Unforgettable - Frances - and meets Peter Edgeworth, Viscount Whitleaf.

She takes an instant dislike to him for two reasons. One, she thinks him vain and shallow and Two, she has some very bad memories of the Whitleafs - memories which aren`t revealed until later on in the book. But Peter is a man who can not see a woman and not try to please her. He grew up with five sisters and a mother and it`s second nature to him to always say and do things women find pleasing. He tries very hard to avoid that anyone thinks he is courting them but he does flirt quite a lot.

After Peter`s campaign Susanna also falls for his charms and they decide to become friends. A friendship which later on becomes more than that.

I found Mary Balogh very brave for writing a character like Peter. He was a different kind of hero and I did like how the author showed how important it was for her hero to constantly please everyone. It`s not that he`s without backbone but he does not like to upset women - which has kept him away from his mother and his home because he can`t go back without upsetting her. This book was very much about his journey into "slaying dragons" and taking a stand, especially against his mother. Susanna`s journey was about finding out the truth about her father.

This was a well written book but I didn`t feel as strongly for it as for the other two books in the series. It felt as if the book sort of skipped a few scenes. There was great drama which was never dealt with and that was a bit frustrating. But it was a good book and a good read and I liked both the hero and the heroine.
5+ stars!

I like Mary Balogh, so I expected to enjoy this book; but I was surprised that I absolutely loved it!

Susanna Osbourne is a teacher at Miss Martin's school in Bath. She has no family, since her mother died in childbirth and her father died when she was twelve. She was sent to Miss Martin's by an anonymous benefactor as a charity student, and she remained to become a teacher. She is quite happy and content with her life.

While visiting a former teacher, who is now Countess of Edgecombe (see Simply Unforgettable), she happens to meet Peter Edgeworth, Viscount Whitleaf. He is handsome and charming, and seems to feel it's his mission in life to flirt with all the ladies, even the elderly spinster Miss Honeydew. Susanna is immediately on her guard, not just because she thinks he's shallow and frivolous, but because she met him once as a child and his presence brings up unhappy memories. During their two weeks in one another's company, however, they strike up a genuine friendship, which culminates in an afternoon of lovemaking before they part.

Susanna expects never to see Peter again, but when he comes to Bath for a wedding of yet another teacher (see Simply Love), Susanna realizes that she has indeed lost her heart to Peter. (And may I just add right here that being a teacher at Miss Martin's school looks to be a better way of finding a titled husband than attending dozens of balls in London.) Peter proposes, but Susanna turns him down, feeling that he has made the offer out of guilt and obligation rather than love. She also has strong feelings about remaining independent, and she truly loves her life at the school. Again, Peter leaves, and they don't expect to meet again.

I won't go into detail about the rest of their story, but their pasts turn out to be more complicated, and intertwined, than first suspected. Peter has a lot of maturing to do, and he needs to get out from under his mother's domination.

Peter is not a rake or an alpha hero; he's really more of an overgrown boy, but he truly wants to live a meaningful, productive life, having a family and running his estate successfully. At the same time, Susanna has to stop ignoring terrible events from her past, and with help from Peter (and sometimes a little interference from him), she comes to envision a future much different from that which she had long thought was inevitable.

The obstacles to their HEA are serious and real and don't seem contrived. This is just a really sweet story that will leave you feeling happy at the end.
Lovely ending on a book where for 75% of the book, nothing happened. Peter was likable but Susanna was difficult, and continued to be. I think it hurt that the reveal was so very late. The result was a rather dull story with characters you liked, or wanted to like, but were hampered by a poorly structured book with a plot that felt terribly back-end heavy. Still the last 50 pages were Balogh gems, but the rest was unfortunately empty