While you were sleeping…
With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, … not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He’s unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier’s life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie…
I told everyone I was your wife
When Edward comes to, he’s more than a little confused. The blow to his head knocked out three months of his memory, but surely he would recall getting married. He knows who Cecilia Harcourt is—even if he does not recall her face—and with everyone calling her his wife, he decides it must be true, even though he’d always assumed he’d marry his neighbor back in England.
If only it were true…
Cecilia risks her entire future by giving herself—completely—to the man she loves. But when the truth comes out, Edward may have a few surprises of his own for the new Mrs. Rokesby.
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Love those Bridgertons!
I have read better by her, but OK.
Julia Quinn writes of hardships but the characters are generally good spirited and open minded. The only exceptions are the “bad”guys. A good writer.
Enjoyable if a little hard to believe. The heroine crossed a ocean all by herself to land in the revolutionary war in search of her brother only to find out the British army misplaced him.
Not as good as some of her other stuff, but still a good book.
Fairly good for a book where nothing at all happens.
I’ve read all your he Bridgerton series. Love these books. I like the characters and the story line with a few twists thrown in.
This was a good book. Julia Quinn’s book are always good.
Good characters
While You We’re Sleeping, but set in Revolutionary War days.
Julia Quinn is an accomplished writer who never disappoints.
The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband is a fun romp. Beginning with the girl finding her brother’s best friend in hospital and only family is allowed to see/ care for him. To the captain waking up with no memory of the last 3 months. As they work to find her missing brother, love grows. Very good story.
I loved the characters.
This was a fun romp of a read that I flew through. It kept me entertained and turning the pages until well past bedtime.
2.5*
After reading the first book of the Bridgerton’s prequel, I couldn’t wait to go and buy the second one. But this one was, clearly (and sadly), behind it.
I’m going to be honest with you, I don’t like romances based on lies. It’s true that this one had a real valid reason for its lies, but it didn’t start very well for me.
Celia is a character that I’m not sure I like…. I’m more inclined for the negative. Edward, yes, Celia… She had so many opportunities to tell the truth and in the end she runs away?!?! No, I think I can clearly say I don’t like her.
I didn’t laugh with this book, I didn’t have fun with it… I might have had a smile or two for Edward’s jokes, but that was it.
It was just bad luck that I read it right after such a good book like Because of Miss Bridgerton. This one doesn’t even come close to it. It’s not bad, it just didn’t seem written by the same author and the story didn’t do it for me.
It ended up being a disappointment.
In her first story outside of England, Julia Quinn takes the reader to Revolutionary New York. Without getting too bogged down in the conflict, she presents her hero, Edward as a British officer who lost his memory. Upon awakening from an injury, he discovers his best friend’s sister by his bedside. Cecilia had claimed to be his wife and Edward believes her. Their relationship had previously been built on notes through letters between Cecilia and her brother. In addition to that past, the best part of their relationship was the support between Cecilia and Edward. While he is injured, she cares for him and when Cecilia is given bad news, he supports her tenderly. This was a heartwarming book to read and Julia Quinn has excelled at creating likable and relatable characters. In the story she’s created, it actually makes sense for Cecilia to claim to be Edward’s wife. Quinn does an excellent job of pulling off one of the most unbelievable tropes- the amnesic hero.
Perhaps 50% – 60% internal dialog centered around wanting the other. Boring and very disappointing from this author. Truly a short story stretched to full length by each’s internal dialog, over and over. Thank goodness returns are allowed.