Simply Perfect

i need more of the Bedwyns and the school!

The book was great! I was not at all disappointed. Though I am greatly disappointed about the fact that we will not hear much from Mary b. for a while...at least where it concernes the Bedwyn family or any of their connections. That family is and attracts pleasant and comical situations with just the right dose of passion in each character.

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simply superb

Claudia Martin, owner and headmistress of Miss Martin¿s School for Girls, has had a rough day starting with one of her teacher¿s unable to provide French and music lessons due to a headache. Things got worse after the auspicious start and now the ultimate has arrived, in the person of a Marquess. Joseph says that close friend and teacher Susanna Osbourne, married last year to Viscount Whitleaf, sends her best regards (see SIMPLY MAGIC). Joseph offers his carriage to take Claudia to London when she leaves in two days. She finds no excuse to say no, but does not trust his title or his friendly demeanor deep down she writes off her attraction as inane as she is too old for such nonsense. After visiting his parents while his father recovers from an illness, the thirtyish Joseph knows he needs a wife and an heir. He had been leaning towards Lady Portia Hunt although her airs could freeze the Thames in summer, but now finds he is falling in love with the intelligent caring spinster. --- The apropos title says it all as Mary Balogh provides another superb Regency romance. The lead couple is complex as each comes into the relationship with preconceptions that prove false when it comes to their beloved. The return of characters from previous novels like Susanna strengthen the plot as sub-genre fans will enjoy knowing what has happened to them since their tale was told. This is simply another great novel in an outstanding series (see SIMPLY LOVE, SIMPLY UNFORGETTABLE and SIMPLY DANGEROUS). --- Harriet Klausner

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Very enjoyable!

Review by Jen:
Simply Perfect is the final book in a series about the teachers at Claudia's school. Over the course of the series, there have been some memorable plots and characters... but I believe this one is my favorite. I enjoyed the characters and their back stories were well-developed and believable. The storyline was interesting and at times heart wrenching (I kept a box of tissue handy for most of the reading). The series is worth the read and best read in order: Simply Unforgettable, Simply Love, Simply Magic, and Simply Perfect. And in the end, Simply Perfect is just that... simply perfect.

The End

This was a nice conclusion to the Teacher series. Claudia was okay and I liked Joseph. Overall the series was alright.

AN UNLIKELY COUPLE, GREAT ROMANCE, THRILLING EXCITEMENT EQUALS A FINE ENDING

A sweet story that shows the life of Claudia Martin change forever when she is forced to accept the Marquess of Attinsborogh offer of his coach to take her and two of her students to London. Her quiet staid life is thrown into upheaval as she is entertained by Nobility, courted by the Marquess after many obstacles and challenges and how happy she is that all this happens. It was a delightful story - well told.

Sweet and touching

These characters broke my heart a few times, and it was a truly satisfying romance.

Great Series

I enjoyed this series very much. I'm sorry that it has ended. I've been reading her books since the 1980's and everyone that I have every read has been very good.

I've just started the Huxtable series and look forward to review them as well.

An interesting read but a time ago plot by other authors.

"Simply Perfect" was light reading. It was romantic and the characters were interesting but it seemed to be somewhat a copy of other such tales told by other authors. Again, like other plots like this one, an ordinary owner and mistress of a girls school is in hot pursuit by a soon to be Duke. After one failed love affair, Miss Claudia Martin is resigned to be a spinster until she meets Joseph, the Marquess of Attingsborough. There is a sudden attraction but their social status is too great a challenge for them to pursue any happiness. Claudia meets her love from her youth and Joseph must marry Portia Hunt, a woman with good social background like his own.
The love triangles, a love child, and obstacles of the "Ton" must be overcome.

Cherry Blossom

Simply Perfect ... how apt. I found the story simply perfect.

This is truly a heartwarming love story.
I had met the heroine in other Mary Balough books.
Claudia is an independent, intelligent woman. She was an unexpected delight to get to know¿.. who she was and who she is. But it was with the leading man that I found a very special joy. Through the author I felt this man¿s immense anxiety to please and do his duty being torn against what would make him whole and truly happy. I felt his pain and joy and his deep love for his blind child.

Didn't buy the romance

I am a fan of Ms. Balogh and her Slightly and Simply series. But this latest I did not care for and frankly, Claudia Martin deserved better. She is the one we all have been rooting for throughout. The one we all knew was beautiful and worthy of love. But this romance seemed forced. There was too much of Lizzie in the book and it seemed very likely that Joseph fell in love with her simply due to her kindness and devotion toward his daughter. The two had very little interaction otherwise. And Joseph seemed kind of like a weenie at times. It may be just me but I like my heros to be more alpha than beta as was in this case. He was led to easily by the nose by Miss Hunt and his father. I was happy that Ms. Martin found love but that was about it.

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