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For You Alone (Frederick Wentworth, Captain; Book 2)
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How could he have failed to know himself so completely? Captain Frederick Wentworth, lately returned to England from a distinguished naval career fighting Napoleon, had re-visited the scene of his romantic defeat of eight years previous at the hands of Miss Anne Elliot to find his former love a pale, worn shadow of herself. Attracted by the libely young ladies in the area who regarded him as a hero, he had ignored Anne and entangled himself with Louisa Musgrove, a headstrong young woman who seemed all that Anne was not. Now, because of his careless behviour and Louisa's heedlessness, his future appeared tied to her just at the moment when it had become painfully clear that Anne was still everything he truly wanted. In honour, he belonged to Louisa, but his heart was full of Anne. What was he to do?
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Pages 228
Dimensions: Length: 8.5" Width: 5.5" Height: 0.7"
Weight: 0.7 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Oct 15, 2008
ISBN 0972852956
EAN 9780972852951
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 | For you alone Sep 14, 2009 |
| If you like Jane Austen you will love this book. Both are worth the read!!!! | | |  | Captain Wentworth's Character Unfolds! Sep 10, 2009 |
In Ms. Kaye's first book, None But You, one of Jane Austen's most romantic and passionate heroes is reintroduced and the story of Persuasion is told from his eyes. This book, For You Alone, begins with Louisa Musgrove recovering from her impetuous leap from the Cobb and our hero, Captain Wentworth, experiencing the acute agony of being held accountable for his actions and the realization that his dreams of a relationship with Anne Elliot may never come to fruition.
Ms. Kaye's Captain Wentworth finally realizes that his bitterness and injured pride led him to behave carelessly and that it may now be too late and the consequences of it may be irreversible. It now dawns on him that Anne has always been the woman that he has measured all women against and that being married to any other woman would be a farce. The portrayal of Wentworth's character was in depth, accurate, and fulfilling. In addition, when Wentworth visits his brother Edward, their relationship is expanded and we learn much about their childhood and family history. The reader will comprehend how observing the happy newlyweds (Edward and his new wife) will torment Wentworth and at the same time make him hold onto a hope that one day such happiness can be his.
I enjoyed experiencing one of my favorite novels from the male perspective and I appreciated that Susan Kaye wrote in a reverent and respectful way and that she did not attempt to alter the original path the story took. The reason I am giving it four stars instead of five is the last chapter and a half, in my opinion it felt abrupt and unsettled. I know that another sequel is in the works, and that is why, I assume, she left some loose ends. But what I was disappointed with was that Ms. Kaye had the freedom to write the wedding scene and ending any way she desired and I feel that the path she chose did not coincide with the characters and tone she had already established. Furthermore, I know this is supposed to be from Captain Wentworth's point of view, but I would have liked to see Anne react with a little more emotion and not so much reservation after receiving Wentworth's letter.
This poignant tale of losing love and finding hope is sure to be admired by many fans of Persuasion, Captain Wentworth, and Jane Austen sequels. I am looking forward to reading other works by Susan Kaye and I am pleased to have these two lovely novels in my collection!
Austenesque Reviews | | | | Some problems, but still readable. May 15, 2009 |
Being the continual fan of Jane Austen that I am, I keep looking at the various re-interpretations of Miss Austen's novels that have turned into a cottage industry these days. And sadly, most of them are pretty bad; however, a few do shine through as fairly good, either continuing the original characters onward, or developing the story from a new angle and viewpoint.
Susan Kaye's For You Alone, the follow-up to None But You retells the novel Persuasion, but this time from the perspective of Captain Frederick Wentworth, the sea captain who was once refused by Anne Elliot, the daughter of a baronet. Now he has returned from the Napoleonic wars, a wealthy man from the captured ships that he has taken, and so, a man of consequence. None But You covered his return to England, and his meeting again with Anne Elliot, an encounter that has reminded him just how much he cared for Anne in the past, but also brings the humiliation of her refusal of his marriage proposal.
As For You Alone opens, Captain Wentworth and Anne have come to the seaside town of Lyme, with Anne's married sister's family, the Musgroves. And young Louisa Musgrove, a pretty, rather featherbrained young lady, has fancied herself in love -- or at least attraction -- to Captain Wentworth.
But now, after a disastrous escapade on Louisa's part, the good captain has found himself in a difficult situation. Given his previous attention to Louisa, the Musgroves assume that he's going to marry her, and honour demands that he make the proposal. On the other hand, being with Anne in Lyme has brought him to realize how much he is still in love with Anne Elliot, and that she is likely to be the only woman to ever make him happy. It's a bad situation indeed -- so Captain Wentworth does the only thing he can do -- he flees Lyme, first to his sister Sophia and her husband, and from there to his elder brother Edward.
All of this happens in the first fifty pages or so, and after a great deal of self-rumination on Captain Wentworth's part, we find him meeting up with his brother. Edward Wentworth is a parson in a small parish, recently married, and it appears, blissfully married at that. It's an entirely new viewpoint for both the reader and Wentworth, and helps to explain a great deal of the background that Wentworth comes from, and helps to give him the resolve to do what he must for his own peace of mind...
And now, I hit my own quandary with this novel. Being that Persuasion is probably my favourite of Jane Austen's six novels, I've read it over several times and each time find something new to explore. Compared to so many other stories set in this time and period (the Regency period is one of the most overwritten genres in romance), Persuasion remains unique in its tale of two lovers reunited after many years and the final resolution of their story. So, the fact that this novel held very few surprises for me was one of the downsides to me. On the plus side, there was the extensive exploration of Wentworth's past that I found very interesting.
Too, Ms. Kaye tries very hard to keep her characters in keeping with the attitudes and language of the time and place. The language feels right, the situations don't get out of hand too much, and while there are touches of the modern here and there in the story, it still works better than most novels that take on this period. Which is all to the good. The descriptions of Bath, the English town that was fashionable in the Regency period as a place to take 'the cure' fit in with what is known of the place and time. And when the novel stays within these parameters, it works.
And now for the bad news. Ms Kaye tacks on an ending to the story that well, just doesn't fit right with me. And that is all that I am going to say about it -- those who have read this review and want to know what irked me so much can comment to me, and I'll try my best to discuss it without giving the ending away entirely. And that ending is a real pity -- it reduced the story to silliness, and a situation that felt so contrived that I could not honestly see any of the characters involved doing it.
Sigh. I hate it when a perfectly good novel shoots itself in the foot like this.
While For You Alone takes some interesting angles from the original novel and runs with it, it also fumbles badly towards the end. Austen purists will grumble and possibly throw the book at the wall. Others might find it amusing. While I was glad to see most of the novel live up to the standard of the first half (the book is really a novel in two parts), it ultimately let me down. So, it gets four stars out of five. And considering how many bad Austen wanna-be novels there are out there, that's a real pity.
And I do suggest that the two books be read in order, as so much of the opening depends on the first book to make sense.
Four stars overall, rounded up from three and a half stars. Recommended. | | | | Gentle Reader, forgive the typos Apr 28, 2009 |
This is one of the BETTER revisions of Austen I've read. Even though the Captain is blond, I could almost imagine Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds . . ..
The typos are more numerous in this sequel than in the first book. On the other hand, imagine what MS Word would do to a page of genuine early-nineteenth-century British English! Forgive the typos. I did.
The next-to-last chapter gave a shock: Anne decides to flout convention. Would Anne be that desperate? Perhaps. The Admiralty was obviously bracing for war. In addition, Anne doesn't know about the understanding Wentworth has with Lady Russell. Once the decision is made, and he accepts her terms, it went back to being wonderful.
A third book? A real "sequel"? I'll look for it. | | |  | A disappointing Part 2 Mar 9, 2009 |
| I loved None But You, Book One of this two part story, but I thought that Book Two was much slower and the writing was not as confident. In fact, although I love Persuasion and its characters, I had to drag myself through this installment. I finally finished spurred on by wanting to get to the point where Wentworth and Anne finally get together (and this part was well done). For being a story from Wentworth's point of view, I didn't really get many new insights into his character. Book One proves that Susan Kaye can write but Book Two seemed more like a chore than a joy for the author. | | | Write your own review about For You Alone (Frederick Wentworth, Captain; Book 2)
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