To Love and to Honour by Emilie Loring

To Love and to Honour Reviews

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  Tiffany

  Belonged to my grandmother, so I have a sentimental attachment to this book. It was amazing to read it and to flip through the pages that my grandmother had read.
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  Courtney Lyman

  Emilie Loring is always a quick, easy read.
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  Susan

  One of the authors I collect, I realized this was one I'd never read. It was NOT her best, but not terrible. I'd give it probably 2 1/2 stars, because it was in the realm of what I was in the mood to read, but not great. Romantic mystery, that's her MO, and it's sweet, although a bit over the top for her stuff.
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  Madeline

  Another nice Emilie Loring book.
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  Eileen

  Cindy is married by proxy (well, by contract) to the son of her late father's business partner who she has never met, in order to save the business. Determined to sell the business and annul the marriage which is in name only, she takes an instant liking to a man she meets in a bracelet store ... until she discovers he is here on behalf of her husband to wrap up his part in her business and life. To complicate matters, mysterious events take place around Cindy's home, which used to be used by smugglers years ago. The complicated affairs mean danger and intrigue, and Colonel Bill Damon always seems to be on hand to save Cindy.
  
  Another cute story, with enough hints that you can figure out the biggest twists before they happen.
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  Linda

  Although the Emily Loring books follow the same formula, it's not to say that the books don't have individual plots and the plots are always good. Romance along with international intrigue and/or domestic mystery abound. This book was no exception. Cinderella (Cindy) Clinton entered a marriage contract with a man she never met 4 years ago to save her father's oil business. Now she is about to have the marriage annulled. Her husband, Kenniston Stewart, sends his representative, Bill Damon, as his proxy to sign the annulment papers and the sell of the oil business once owned by their fathers. Cindy finds herself falling in love with Bill Damon but then comes a shock. It wouldn't be an Emily Loring book without the mystery so smugglers are thrown into the mix.
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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 that she had died before I was even born. I loved these books, but read them when I was between about 12 and 18 years old. I was a young reader - do keep that in mind! :-)
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  Sophie

  Not Loring at her best. The premise is silly (how the marriage-by-contract made the business venture secure is never adequately explained—or even attempted) and there's never an excuse for naming your heroine Cinderella, but it's still a charming story with likable, relatable characters. And right now in deepest frozen winter, there's nothing I'd rather read than Loring’s vivid descriptions of sparkling, summery Maine.
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  Leanna

  Though I didn't fully enjoy the first half of this book, I did find the second half to be interesting and entertaining. I wasn't too attached to any of the characters. That being said, I was intrigued by the romance and the main mystery. I also really like the ending of the novel. Emilie Loring's writing style is very pretty and it's filled with lovely imagery. I thought this book was alright. It was sort of a let down though because I had really liked some of Loring's other books.
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  Bruce&Marsha Sarrazin

  Another wonderful story by Emilie Loring
  
  I adore all of Emilie Loring's great love stories! I have read them ALL! I also OWN them all in hardcover. I love that all of them are Patriotic and a great story of true love! It doesn't get any better than that!!
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  Darlene Mindrup

  Another winner
  
  Despite the fact that this was another drop dead gorgeous heroines playing the field with three men and playing them off against each other, it was still a good read.
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  Dawn

  A classic from a favorite author from my early teens. Wholesome and sweet love stories.
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  Karen

  I always enjoy Emilie Loring...in particular when I remember to check the date and read it in the context of it being "modern day" to the year it was written.
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  J.M.

  I can't. I simply cannot give this book the star rating it deserves!
  
  You see, I own a collection of Emilie Loring paperbacks, which RIP in a box under our guestroom bed, collected many years ago when I loved these simple stories. I haven't picked one of them up in years, except to pack them every time we move. But when I saw this one cheap on Kindle, I thought, "Why not?" and bought it for an escape to the past.
  
  Ouch. I had no idea how completely my taste in reading material has changed in the past twenty-five years. Is every one of those books I liked so much THIS BAD? Or is this one an exception, since it undoubtedly numbers among the books the author's family published after her death? I like to think Ms. Loring would have blenched at the thought of its being published in this state. Seriously, it reads like a rough draft--complete in plot but sparse in style to the point of ridiculous. It is packed with dialogue that tries to replace narrative--at least five or six times Sarah, the cook/housemaid, tells Cindy, the heroine, how much she likes the (fill in detailed description of her entire outfit from shoes to hat) she is wearing. Or a male character tells the heroine what he and she are doing, complete with flowery description of scenery, as if she didn't know. Much of this dialog contains no tags, and frequently I had to read it twice before I figured out who was saying what. It is hilarious . . . but tedious to read after a short time, which is why this one took me five days to read. I confess, I thought the book would never end.
  
  The plot is a contrived smuggling mystery set on the coast of Maine in 1950, complete with a proxy marriage to a mystery man, who of course shows up to meet his "wife" right before the marriage can be annulled for desertion, a twice-divorced yet dashing "other man," a sweet but obviously unlucky "nice guy," and several shady yet gorgeous women (whose outfits are, of course, described for us in detail by other characters). To be honest, it is so bad that I laughed . . . yet I kept reading.
  
  Nevertheless, I doubt I will pick up another of her books anytime soon . . . unless maybe to compare one of her earlier books, which the author wrote completely and had published, with this later one that was probably rescued from her graveyard of manuscripts and published.
  
  Someone please remind me to permanently delete all manuscripts from my computer before I die, lest future readers laugh until they cry at my failed attempts at noveling . . .