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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Hester Browne created a unique heroine in Melissa Romney-Jones a.k.a. Honey, London's ultimate freelance girlfriend, who won the hearts of readers on both sides of the Atlantic in her "charming and feel-good"(Cosmopolitan) and "funny and original" (People) earlier adventures. Now her New York Times bestselling series sparkles brighter than ever as irrepressible Melissa is hired to reform a playboy prince -- and finds she could get used to the royal treatment. Making plans for her wedding to American fiancé Jonathan Riley, who now runs a prestigious Parisian real estate company, Melissa agrees to do a favor for her beloved grandmother: transform the notorious Prince Nicolas von Helsing-Alexandros into a proper gentleman for the sake of preserving a family inheritance. Even possessive Jonathan agrees it's a great opportunity to make social connections. But taming a prince might prove too big a professional challenge for Melissa when she's confronting so many seismic changes in her own personal life. Jonathan needs her in Paris. Her sister Emery's newborn son needs a christening ceremony, as well as a proper name. Emery herself needs Melissa -- to protect her from their bulldog nanny who's returned to do much more than babysit. Most unsettling of all, Nelson needs her to find him a new flatmate because she'll be moving out soon. Balancing all this with late-night dinners, polo matches, and a Mediterranean cruise with Prince Nicky, who is as charming as he is exasperating, suddenly has bride-to-be Melissa dreaming of a fairy-tale ending -- and not the one she expected! | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Hester Browne | | Hardcover: | 400 pages | | Publisher: | Pocket | | Publication Date: | February 05, 2008 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1416539069 | | Package Length: | 9.2 inches | | Package Width: | 6.1 inches | | Package Height: | 1.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 30 reviews |
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8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Melissa/Honey comes full circle Feb 21, 2008
By A reader
Of the three Little Lady Agency books, this one was far and away the best one! I felt like Melissa found her true self in this one, realizing how incompatible she and Jonathan really were, confronting her bullying father, and finding that once you know who you really are, only then can you find true happiness. With all of their quirks and faults, I still love Melissa's family (well, except for her father, of course), especially her sisters and Granny, and reading about Alexander and Nicky's lifestyle was like reading excerpts from Hello! magazine, except Ms. Browne makes her characters seem more real, or at least as real as fiction can get. Finally, the scenes Ms. Browne sets in Paris are so vivid that it makes one want to hop a plane there tout de suite! Well done, Ms. Browne!
14 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Frustrating Third Episode Jan 28, 2008
By JMcJ
I was very much looking forward to this new book in the Little Lady Agency series. In the end, I had to struggle to get through this last book.
If you have read the first two, and are invested in the wrap up of the story, read this one if you must know how it all ends (which is not too surprising either). However, if you have not read them...don't bother to start with this one. There is no way you will be able to connect with many of these emotionally barren secondary characters. As lovable as Nelson is, he can't carry the entire amount of adult grown-up healthy relationship ever to be seen in the whole book for very long. Before the end of the book, he too seems to be stunted and unable to move forward.
A quarter of the way through this book I hated Johnathon (the boyfriend) so much I almost put it down. By then he was as bad as her father. Little did I know how bad it would get. Additionally, I really disliked Melissa for putting up with it for so long. I am glad she grew a backbone but that backbone came 300 pages to late.
I intensely disliked the father after the first book and he never turned nicer or relatable. He was never written with a single reason to feel compassion for his character or understand why he was so emotionally abusive to his family. If we didn't have him shoved down our throats so often, it would have been acceptable but as a protagonist, he was detestable and never paid any price for his behavior. Just saying "Oh, that's just how Daddy is, dear" doesn't cut it.
There were a lot of loose ends from previous books that really didn't get answered in this one and a few new ones... After New York, what did she still see in Jonathan? How and when did Allegra and Lars get back together? Neither of them went to jail? what happened with the 10,000 investment into the ski chalet...did it continue to be a good investment? How did Jonathan get a dog into England from America...Isn't the quarantine really long? After seeing the way old Nanny Ag treated Emery, what group of adults would allow someone like Nanny Ag to continue to torment them and their daughter and grandchild like that? How was anyone, a PRINCE especially, able to walk into a secured area and pretend to disable a bomb...even if it was just her purse? What thinking adult (as Melissa generally is) gets into a dingy for a ride in the ocean without a life vest on, especially if they admit to not being a good swimmer? The Prince apparently doesn't need one either.
Additionally, there was one way too convenient coincidence as well...Horrible blackmailer Nanny Ag having information to blackmail the Prince's blackmailer????
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Charming Story Feb 20, 2008
By LARS
The first two Little Lady books were wonderful, and the main storyline in this one is just as appealing. Melissa/Honey is a joy and her flatmate Nelson should be cloned. Millions of women are waiting to find a Nelson or depending on your taste Jonathan. Two small problems, it's hard to relate to the new character- the Prince without a castle- since he's such a spoiled brat and Melissa's family troubles are tiresome. Actually, her father is a real egomaniac who even makes caring for an infant revolting- which is saying something- but if you can put that aside this is an enjoyable read. LARS
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Disappointing ending to The Little Lady Aug 05, 2008
By Alpha Xi Delta Gal
"axid"
I loved the first two Little Lady Agency books and this one was a disappointment. It took a little while to get moving, but the main downer was how it ended up romantically. Don't read further if you do not want to be spoiled.... I would have been happy if she had gotten back with Jonathan or even wound up with the prince, but she winds up with Nelson, her roommate. He has spent most of the series tilting his nose up and looking down on everyone. He comes across and prissy and snobby. I don't see how Melissa would fall for someone like this. There's zero chemistry felt through the pages and all of a sudden we're supposed to realize this guy is her romantic equal? Towards the end of the book, she all of a sudden think he's hot. Huh? It also doesn't help that there was not much character development of the person throughout the whole series. I would recommend stopping after the second book.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Satisfying 3rd in series Mar 05, 2008
By Marbee
"Contrary Mary"
A lot of loose ends tied up in this book. The ending is a little bit "duh, what took you so long?", but it was fun getting there. What is great about this series is that I could hand these books both to my mother (with delicate sensibilities), and my daughter who both enjoyed the romance in the books.
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