A childhood love longing to make amends. A daughter fighting to break free. A mother struggling to protect her. Tormented by the past, can they build a better future?
Six years ago, tragedy tore Eloise and Patrick apart. Shouldering the burden of his brother’s death, he spent years drinking himself into oblivion. Now freed from that darkness, Patrick Lennox returns to reclaim the heart of the … reclaim the heart of the young lady he left behind.
Can she forgive the man who abandoned her without a word?
Eloise Andrews has enough troubles in her life without Patrick stirring things up. Her mother is a heartless beast who controls every aspect of her life, and Eloise is determined to break free of her—even if it means destroying the perfect reputation her mother is desperate to save.
But not all wounds can be seen, and perhaps something more lurks beneath her mother’s frosty demeanor…
Years of torment taught Emmeline Andrews the power of shielding one’s heart behind a sterling reputation, and she will do everything she can to ensure her children are protected against society’s cruelty. But with her daughter determined to ruin herself and Emmeline’s own marriage crumbling to pieces, she has to decide whether or not that precious reputation is a shield or a jail.
Jumping between two generations, Honor and Redemption is a story about how our mistakes can shape our world and how the bond between mother and daughter, friends and sweethearts can break when we are afraid to open our hearts.
Though part of the Regency Love series, each book is a standalone sweet historical romance and can be read in any order.
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Expect frequent flashbacks.
This is the first book of this author’s I have read and it is the fourth book in the series but it reads well as a stand-alone. After reading some of the reviews I got a pretty decent idea of what occurred in the other books. I found the book a very good read with flawed characters and with a message of forgiveness, acceptance, along with growth and change. These characters are so well-developed and the book is very well-written you may even find it hard to read at times because the author has been able to induce strong emotions in the piece. High praise and I highly recommend this book. I did receive a free copy of this book and voluntarily chose to review it.
This story is about a young woman, who needs to learn to trust in the man she loves, but had betrayed her once and about her mother, who tries to free herself from the influence of he mother-in-law, who has a tight grip on her even beyond her grave, to save her love, her marriage and the relationship with her children.
The book has flashbacks to the mother’s past, showing why she became the way she was and her struggle to undo the damage.
The book is interesting on many levels – it is more than just a historical love story. The human interest aspect is strong.
All in all, the book ins entertaining, has depth and is easy to read. A good blend in a book.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I really enjoyed this book. Sometimes I found it was a harder read but only because the author wrote so well I could feel the characters emotions and they had some tough hills to climb. I felt for them. I think the author did a good job in giving the reader some food for thought through her story and characters. The two main couples had to forgive and needed forgiveness as well. I wondered how I would like the flashbacks to the mom’s younger days. I ended up enjoying it & was able to see why she did what she did. How easy it is to overcompensate and make happen what we set out to not have happen in the 1st place. Also, maybe give people a little grace as we don’t see the hidden injuries. I think the characters were well developed and had depth. The changes and growth the two couples experienced felt real and the story flowed well. I think this was my favorite in the series.
I can’t remember reading a book that made me cry so much! But my goodness, what a wonderful story! The way she describes what the characters are feeling made me feel it too. I loved the past and present back and forth. Rather than just telling us why Emmeline was the way she was, she took us back to live it along with her. You never know what some people have faced and come through. That’s why we cannot judge.
I also appreciated the “rest of the story”, after the happily-ever-after for Norman and Emmeline. Falling in love is the easy part. Living with each other and each others’ “demons”(faults, fears, anxieties, weaknesses, doubts, insecurities, etc.) is the the true test of love. And forgiving is so important and powerful.
‘They are tormented by the past, but can they build a better future?
Shouldering the guilt of his brother’s death, Patrick Lennox was a broken man. Having spent years drinking himself into oblivion, he has finally pulled himself free from the darkness that engulfed his life. But when he returns to reclaim the heart of the girl he left behind, he discovers that forgiveness is not so easy to find.
Eloise Andrews yearns to be free of her mother’s rigid rules, but when her long-lost childhood love reappears, her ordered existence is thrown into chaos, leaving Eloise unsure of what she truly desires. Does she still love Patrick? Can she ever forgive him for abandoning her all those years ago? Or is it simply better to escape her frustrating life altogether? And is there something more to her mother’s frosty demeanor?’
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Honor and Redemption is the fourth book in M.A. Nichols’ Regency Love series. The books in the series are connected by each focusing on different members of the same family. Here, the main character, Eloise is the neice of a main character from the first book in the series.
I enjoy Nichols’ writing style, the tone she sets, and how her stories aren’t over-the-top. Everyone is individually flawed and human. The lovely thing about this book is that we are drawn into the emotions of all four main characters journeys.
I liked that the book gave us the opportunity to understand why Eloise’s mother was so cold and rigid in her affections for her family, instead of keeping her as more of a villian in the story. Had we not been given this insight into her past and the rocky upbringing she endured, I don’t believe we would have been able to see her redeemed. That being said though, I am not a huge fan of a duel narrative that frequently cuts to chapter long scenes from the past. It worked here, but it did make the reading a little slower for me. That’s likely due to my aversion to these cut aways and others may not have experienced this feeling of the plot slowing. Overall, I think that the story would have benefitted from fewer flashbacks.
I enjoyed this book, but I did not find the characters as engaging as I did in the other books by this author I have read. As a result I was not as invested. Everyone just didn’t communicate enough, which made sense and was intruiging at the beginning of the book. But as the story progressed and some secrets were shared, while others continued to be held back, it began to feel like things were drawing out too much and as a result causing more problems that didn’t need to happen.
I now have read the last two books in this series and have enjoyed them both. I haven’t yet read the first two, but plan to go back to read them. The order in which you read this series is quite fexible and each can serve as a stand-alone. From what I have read so far, I recommend this series. Like the rest of the books in this series Honor and Redemption is a clean historical romance.
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I get the Redemption part, but I don’t see where the Honor comes in. This has parallel stories of a horribly managing and shutdown mother and her daughter, the primary heroine.
The mother is horrifically cold, emotional, managing, judgmental and socially conscious to her husband, daughters…heck, her whole family. The heroine starts out as a wronged heroine by the love of her life when he does something reckless that results in a tragedy and goes off the rails. One grows and changes, one doesn’t.
The heroine is likable enough at the beginning, but to get out from under her mother’s thumb makes some stupid and insensitive decisions. [Flirts and uses one man’s attention to make her old beau jealous which results in a proposal that she refuses much to the man’s dismay. Blows hot and cold to a young woman with no friends due to faulty reputation through no fault of her own. And dumbest of all and most infuriating decides she will get compromised so her mother can’t boss her around anymore. She unwisely picks the serial rapist that tried to rape her friend and gets saved in the nick of time. Spare me from terminally stupid heroines. (hide spoiler)]
On the other hand, the mother starts out horrible and hateful, and through flashbacks of her horribly sexually permissive parents as well as her cold but “helpful” MIL you get glimpses of why she ended up where she did. This was by far the more interesting portion of the book, but wasn’t much fun as she has already alienated so many people that she loves. She comes around eventually and tries to make amends.
It’s a HEA for everybody, but the only ones I cared about really were the mother and her too much off-page husband.