![]() It just didn’t entirely make sense to me that they could develop such a close month-long friendship that even led to one afternoon of love-making (although it wasn’t very good for either of them), and simply part ways without even trying to make a go of it or even writing letters to one another to see what might happen. Quite frankly if nature hadn’t intervened, they never would have gotten married and given each other a chance to share a happy life together. ![]() It was at these times that I often became frustrated with them. But I felt at times, that Sydnam and Anne took their introversion too far, making assumptions about how the other one feels rather than communicating and actually asking. I can appreciate this type of storytelling, and as an introvert myself, I can also appreciate introverted characters. ![]() There are no villains or external problems for them to overcome, merely them coming to terms with certain painful events in their pasts that tend to keep them apart. ![]() I think this is owing in large part to the conflict between the hero and heroine being entirely of an internal nature. However, this one seemed a bit more languid than the rest. ![]() All of her books I’ve read to date have been somewhat slow-paced, which I’ve come to recognize as her writing style. Simply Love is the second story in Mary Balogh’s Simply Quartet about the four teachers who work at Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath, and it’s the fifth story by her I’ve read overall. ![]()
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