I Take This Man by Emilie Loring

I Take This Man Reviews

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  veronian

  Not sure how this ended up on my Kindle but it was short! Very pulpy patriotic rah rah WW2-era thriller romance. Had low expectations and they were met just fine
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  Ashley

  I wasn't sure of this books as it started with Penny devoting her love for another and then just as quickly denying that love. But has the rather short tale unwind-ed I found I could not put the book down and truly enjoyed the reading of danger, mystery and friendship.
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  Dorry Lou

  This was a fun book. Lots of intrigue as well as the secret relationship of the bride and her husband. Neither wanted the other to know they cared. Penelope had baggage when she married Garth and it took awhile to build trust in each other. Lots of fluff....
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  Eileen

  Aside from the old-fashioned style of writing, this was a good book. The characters were developed, and the plot was interesting. There were lots of suspects for the crime and lots of red herrings to make figuring out who the criminals were more difficult.
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  Rebecca Irvine

  One of my favorite books of all time--suspense, romance, and patriotic. Definitely one of Emilie Loring's better novels.
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  Tracy

  Fun light read.
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  Bookworm

  One of my favorite Emilie loring books!
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  Madeline

  Love! One of my favorite Emilie Loring books. A really nice story of winning a persons love.
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  Kathy Beier

  Read in my early teens 50+ years ago. Still enjoyed it. Romance, mystery and intrigue. Perfect story to escape from reality. quick read.
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  Sophie

  Another uneven mash-up of an original Emilie Loring short story (Garth the Gunmaker
  according to Patti Bender) and ghost-written filler to make it a full-length novel. The results are uneven at best. The Loring story is of much higher quality, and some of the filler is borderline silly. There are also some fairly obvious inconsistencies, such as page 131 where the heroine sets out on a dangerous quest: I'm afraid, she admitted to herself then two paragraphs later: She was so preoccupied with the coming meeting that she was not in the least afraid. Or the opening scene when the bridegroom seizes the bride's arms so fiercely that it leaves bruises (a later plot point), but nowhere in the text do we see this happen. We go from His hands were clenched in an effort at control, until they showed white at the knuckles to She was acutely conscious of his hands that held her arms so ruthlessly with no mention of his grabbing her. Seems an important point. Perhaps the best inconsistency though, is one of more recent vintage. The recently published Kindle edition lists the original copyright as 1945. In fact, it's 1954. Missed it by that much.
  
  Overall, this book just made me want to read the original short story. I'm sure it's much better than this posthumous hybrid.
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  Rebekah Morris

  This turned out to be rather an exciting read.
  Penny and Don both had issues that needed dealt with. I could sympathize with them both at times, and understood the business that kept them from talking like they should have, but I still wanted to shake them both once or twice, or at least give them a piece of my mind.
  
  I was suspicious of one bad guy from the start, but I was wrong about others, which made the ending rather a surprise. Many mystery books I’ve read would have included more drama, but this one, to my delight, didn’t overdo it.
  
  There were one or two swear words in this story, and a man wanting a married woman to be unfaithful to her husband, but she refused.
  This is not a Christian book.
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  Jeanne

  I started reading Emile Loring books when I picked up a paperback from a rack in a hotel lobby (for 50 cents) while on my sister's & my yearly vacation to visit my father. Hooked! I went on to purchase and read every Emilie Loring romance written and available in paperback, not knowing, until Goodreads, that she had died before I was even born. I loved these books, but read them all when I was between about 13-14 and perhaps 18 years old - so keep that in mind! :-)
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  Darlene Mindrup

  A favorite
  
  This has always been one of my favorites. There was more to the story than many of her others that depends on the drop dead gorgeous heroines playing three guys against each other.
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  Carolyn Wills

  Suspense and Deception
  
  A different read from the romance novels of today. I enjoyed the change. I would probably read other books by Ms Loring.
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  bibliolatry

  Interesting plot, poorly written!!!
  
  This books seems to float somewhere in the stratosphere, but nowhere definite. Even though “a war” is the catalyst for most of the action, the name of the war is never mentioned. Due to the importance of airplanes, I assumed it to be WWII, but no dates are given. The setting is somewhere in “America,” but no city or state is mentioned.
  
  The MC Penny just appears in Garth’s life with no background information. Supposedly they met at school, but he is much older than Penny so I’m not sure how they met. He is also from a much higher socioeconomic status than Penny (someone like Henry Ford) so I’m not sure how their paths would have crossed.
  
  Penny is able to take on the running of a large home, host high society parties, and move in upper class circles with apparently no training. She organizes major improvements to the lives of Garth’s thousands of employees, including schools, parks, community centers, and yet no mention is made of any formal education.
  
  Emilie Loring’s writing is often vague or repetitive. For instance her “nurse,” Nora keeps referring to her as “Penny - Mrs. Garth,” EVERY SINGLE TIME! How often can she possibly forget that Penny is now Mrs. Garth? Also, EL often refers to Penny as “The girl.”
  
  And the thing that bothered me the most was the fact that she refused to tell the reader where Petro was from! Apparently it wasn’t important to the writer, but then why keep referring to it as “Petro’s country?”
  
  Finally, she writes about an injured character:
  “He’s getting better. The doctor removed the bullet.
  It only grazed his shoulder.”
  If the bullet only grazed his shoulder, what was there to remove?
  
  I’m not sure if this was a mistake, but when EL described dinners at Upland‘s, the home of Donald Garth, she always referred to the servers as waitresses. I did not realize that this is what servers in private homes were called in the United States at this time. If anyone knows differently, I would appreciate knowing. (In Britain, only men served at table, and they were called footmen.)
  
  These mistakes are so basic that I will not be reading any more of EL’s books in the future.
  
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  Bruce&Marsha Sarrazin

  Emilio Loring books
  
  I love love love Emilie Loring's books! My mother introduced me to Emilie Spring's books when I was thirteen years old. I was intrigued by her books which all had a patriotic theme, along with some mystery and always a beautiful love story. I am now seventy-five and STILL love her books! They are as relevant today as ever!