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The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Mass Market Paperback format. The main characters of this historical, historical story are Clayton Westmoreland, Whitney Stone. The book has been awarded with , and many others. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator.

We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. He was beautiful and wealthy and titled and worldly and all that jazz. However, he was also: -arrogant -smug -hateful -a brute -a self-righteous jerk -insecure -volatile But his biggest flaw?

That he never truly atoned for, nor redeemed himself enough for the This book failed to meet my expectations. That he never truly atoned for, nor redeemed himself enough for the hurt he caused the heroine - and THAT is a crucial thing when the hero hurts the heroine in a capital way.

This guy not only hurt her once, but several times. Unfortunately, I never found a reason to warm up to him enough and accept that he could be worthy, despite his original character flaws.

But the "heroine"? She was so wishy-washy and I hated the games she played. She went from being hurt and humiliated by the hero in one page to surrendering to him the next, and it was almost sad. Sure, several of the situations where the hero hurt her were due to misunderstandings.

However, after it happens over and over again, it gets tiring and boring. View all 3 comments. Shelves: settings , ebooks-i-own , historical-romance , read , my-reviews , favorites.

Fresh from her triumphs in Paris society, she returned to England to win the heart of Paul, her childhood love. Outraged, she defies her new lord. But even as his smoldering passion seduces her into a gathering storm of desire, Whitney cannot -- and will not -- relinquish her dream of perfect love. Do you know what this book was like? It was like walking through a storm. Where rain is pouring down, lightning is striking and thunder is rumbling in the distance.

A frightening yet beautiful experience because you love the feel of rain on your skin yet you're oh so terrified. This book was a storm of emotions whirling around and around trapping you inside until you have no earthly clue about how you're feeling. And do you know what I sound like? I sound ridiculous. That's exactly what Judith does to me. She makes me want to get down on my knees and sprout poetic declarations of love. Whitney is the most defiant and wilful Judith McNaught heroine, yet there's an element of vulnerability about her that makes you stop and think before you start hating on her.

Most of the time. I just didn't know what to think. Was I irritated by Whitney? I honestly don't know. Certainly at times I wanted to slap her, but that made me feel like a hypocrite.

The things she did, the way she rebelled and stood proud even when her heart was in turmoil had me feeling a sense of reluctant admiration.

At the end of the day, I realised, if I ever was in her position I would've done exactly the same. Clayton Westmoreland was the typical Judith McNaught hero. He was a cynical, jaded and determined rake who morphed into a tender, loving and sometimes VERY angry husband.

The way he wasn't afraid to admit his love for Whitney definitely earnt my respect. In his pursual of Whitney I found myself on more than one occasion feeling terribly sorry for him. Stupid Paul. And Whitney's childish infatuation with him. Thank God, she realised that Paul was a complete phony and Clayton was the real deal somewhere during the middle of the book. I was actually coming extremely close to losing my patience with the whole ridiculous love triangle.

But Judith McNaught saved it just in time. Needless to say, after spending the first half of the book ruffling my feathers, she spent the next half soothing them and soon enough I had forgiven her for the terrible frustration of the first half of the book. By the end of it, I had even forgotten that I was ever irritated. The second half of the book was utterly charming as it mainly focused on Clayton and Whitney's romance. I wish there weren't so many misunderstandings but I also know that without them the book just wouldn't be as captivating.

Yes it was madly infuriating sometimes but I was drawn in and played like a fool by Judith nevertheless. On the bottom step, Whitney paused and for one agonizing, soul-wrenching moment, Clayton thought that she was going to turn and look up at him. Helplessly he stretched his hand out, longing to slide his knuckles over her soft, silken cheek. But all he touched was a cold pane of glass. DuVille would suit her better, Clayton decided with a wrenching pain.

Sevarin was dull and weak, but DuVille was sophisticated and urbane. Clayton hoped with all his heart that she would choose the Frenchman. His raw voice was so low Stephen could hardly hear it. My heart is sighing. I loved this book just as much as all the other historical romances by her. At the end of the day, no one does epic love quite like Judith McNaught. View all 23 comments. Sep 07, Anna rated it it was amazing Shelves: april-showers-anna-flowers.

I've discovered I have a first edition vintage copy of this book! And since I read this when the dinosaurs roamed the earth my teen years and can't remember shit It's up for an e-reread. Feb 11, h o l l i s rated it really liked it Shelves: reads , overdrive , heroines-i-love , made-me-cry , hate-to-love-romance , all-the-lols , book-buddy-recs , hist-romance , rhr , sexytimes.

This review can also be found at Romantic Historical Reviews. Having just closed the book well, browser, it was an eBook on Whitney, My Love , I'm left with so many feelings, some of them a little conflicted.

I'd only just discovered Judith McNaught's writing — quite literally — having read Kingdom of Dreams a few days ago but I couldn't resist diving right into the second in her Westmoreland Saga expecting nothing and yet, after devouring and loving book one, everything.

McNaught's stories are long. They are lengthy and detailed and layered and complex; just like her characters. But they are incredibly compelling and fascinating and soon you're so swept in their journey and heartbreak and romance that you look up and realize you have lost an entire day to her world and her writing.

No regrets! Whitney Stone, our main character, is heroine perfection. She is clever and strong willed and wild and irrepressible. It's the main reason, in the opening chapters, we see her father sending her off to Paris with her aunt and uncle; because he just can't handle her anymore. She leaves behind a reckless reputation, scandal, and the boy she loves most in the world, Paul Sevarin. Years pass and while in Paris she's taught comportment, etiquette, refinement, and she goes along with it all, hoping that when she returns to England she will finally convince Paul they are meant to be together and that she is worthy of his love.

But though the wild child has been taught manners, Whitney still has a cheeky, outspoken manner about her. And when she's taken under the wing of her friend's older brother, she quickly becomes the talk of the ton. Soon she's in demand, with all the bachelors eager to gain her favour; she's beautiful, popular and genuine..

All this and she manages to catch the eye of the Duke of Claymore, quite without her knowing it. Initially spotting her months before their introduction, Clayton is captivated by Whitney.

He wants her, and will have her, and quickly dismisses the idea of making her his mistress. No, he needs a wife, and he will have Whitney, so when his investigation into her family uncovers her father's outrageous debt, he concocts a plan. He will pay off the creditors in exchange for betrothal contract. And if that weren't enough backdoor dealings, Clayton takes it one step further. After a less than desirable encounter at a masquerade, where he discovers how little Whitney cares for titles and rank, he decides to retire to the English countryside, down the road from Whitney's father, and assumes a different name in the hopes of wooing Whitney without her dismissing him out of turn solely for being a Duke.

Unfortunately for Clayton, Whitney is not so easily wooed. She is still of a mind to marry Paul and the interactions that play out as Clayton tries to court her and Whitney resists are easily the best part of the book. McNaught is able, with the considerable length of her books, to fully develop her characters. She gives us so many situations to watch them blossom, to err, to be won over, and the back and forth between these two strong-willed individuals reminded me so much of the couple in the first book of the Westmoreland Saga series.

I'm a total sucker for a hate to love romance and McNaught's characters take it quite a few steps further, see-sawing through so many ups and downs it visits utter emotional havoc on the reader. But unlike the previous book, the drawn-out, angsty push-and-pull in Whitney, My Love did begin to wear on me and is what brought this down from a perfect rating.

Because Clayton. While the hero of this story is basically a dreamboat when things are going his way, when he's amused and enchanted or being challenged, he does spiral out of control when he jumps to conclusions. Something he does with utterly disastrous results. McNaught does not let him get away with it, he admits to being at fault, he comes around to realize his mistakes, but..

By the final clusterbomb of misunderstandings, I was just shaking my head, stomach in knots, unable to believe it was happening all over again. Because one thing I hate in romances? And yet, up until this last instance between Whitney and Clay, I thought I'd finally found an author who could make me, not loathe, not just tolerate, but thrive off the emotional angst because of the intensity it brought to the story and the relationship; but it just went one step too far and I strongly disliked nay, detested Clayton's inner monologue and treatment of Whitney every time he assumed wrongly of her.

That isn't to say Whitney is perfect and doesn't make her own snap judgments. She does. More reasonable. Then again maybe I'm just biased towards her because Whitney is going onto my wall of best heroines ever.

She's brave and bold and brilliant and beautiful and despite everything she endured with Clayton she waited for him to find her, to come to his senses, to prove her love for him was not undeserving. It broke my heart and yet I was just so proud of her. Despite how I felt about things near the end of this read, I am still riding high on the McNaught train.

I know I just bemoaned one of them or one aspect of one of them because I did love Clayton for probably seventy-five percent of the book , but her characters really are fantastic.

She writes the best heroines; the kind that are strong, independent, saucy, sassy and smart, yet vulnerable. The family relationship dynamics are gorgeous — in this second installment it was definitely Whitney's aunt and uncle with whom I fell utterly in love there are two specific scenes with the three of them that made me laugh and cry. Additionally, McNaught's romances really are truly remarkable.

The happily every afters are hard-earned but enduring. I just wish this particular happily ever after had one less speed bump along the way. I am completely exhausted from this reading experience, and very happy to have discovered this author, even as late to the party as I am.

If you're looking for an emotional wringer of a story, but love genuinely delightful cheeky characters, and a bold love story with all the occasional ugliness that comes with being hurt by the one meant only for you, please pick up Whitney, My Love. It will make you feel so much and still have you laughing through it all. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book was four stars right until Whitney discovered Clayton's identity.

McNaught had a good thing going. Clayton was everything charming and sexy and the banter between him and Whitney was neither cheesy, spiteful, nor stilted.

The sexual tension was built high enough to hang. I was genuinely enjoying learning about their developing relationship. With his patience and good humor and firm hand, let's not forget and her honest, down-to-earth nature no TSTL moments , the hero and heroine act This book was four stars right until Whitney discovered Clayton's identity. With his patience and good humor and firm hand, let's not forget and her honest, down-to-earth nature no TSTL moments , the hero and heroine actually seemed meant for each other, as many grand romances purport, especially as the hero seemed the one person who could understand Whitney.

McNaught has a unique, entrancing way of conveying emotion that is all in the details. For example, one of the characters describes her happiness on her wedding day, "She bent her head and tried to pray. But all her prayers began with 'Thank you' instead of 'Please. McNaught can certainly write humility. I just wish it wasn't required so very often of her poor heroine later. Because then Whitney discovers the truth, and the book swiftly becomes a melodramatic soap opera that rehashes again and again the same hangup of the hero: his delusion that Whitney is a deceiving bitch his favorite choice of words.

His explosive, violent reaction to this seems entirely out of character for the very sane, very levelheaded man we meet in the first half of the book. If we're not convinced of his motivation, however, we at least have a complete grasp of the emotions that move Clayton, thanks to McNaught's talent with emotion.

My main gripe with the book is that this same conflict is repeated, if not verbatim then close enough, twice more before the book ends. As I had trouble crediting this device once, I really began to take issue when I saw it not once but twice more. At this point, one would expect some explanation for Clayton's continued, nearly pathological obsession with Whitney's imagined betrayals.

Certainly there must be some incident in his past to explain his bizarre fixation, but there seems to be none in his otherwise normal family and normal life. These eruptions arrive with painful predictability when McNaught takes too much exaggerated care to paint the couple in happily wedded bliss, transparently setting them up for a fall. The dynamics between the couple are wildly unbalanced and never truly even, as one would expect. The hero spends the first half of the book pursuing the heroine, while he seems to spend the second half of the book making Whitney grovel almost literally and pay in every conceivable way for everything, including the crimes she is wrongfully accused of.

This is the other extreme of the scale. Rather than the man apologizing endlessly for his existence, it is the woman. I don't particularly care for either scenario.

So, while I was fully ready to revise my opinion of McNaught to a hearty recommendation in the first half of the book, the rest of the book unfortunately wearied me. Feb 03, Dina marked it as to-avoid Shelves: historical-romance. She seemed to loose all pride, she went running back to him. He didn't seem to care going out with others and then getting engaged. I think what really shocked me in the end, they never really talked about his lack of trust with her, they never talked really about how he hurt her.

Then after leaving her to go to Londen and talking about getting a mistress and then sneaking out of the Ball to tal From Lillian Rose Ami: 'I thought Whitney really lost her true sense of self when Clayton raped her.

Then after leaving her to go to Londen and talking about getting a mistress and then sneaking out of the Ball to talk to his exmistress when he knew how she felt, I just don't know that I really liked him in the end. She actually thanked him for not sleeping with his exmistress and he just said that's okay, and it's not that he didn't want to either, the only reason he didn't is that he thought it would humiliate Whitney, I just didn't get the love from him, if you love someone you don't want to sleep with someone else, the reason he didn't is that he didn't want to shame her, but he was going to set someone else up as his mistress, and that's only what the day he leaves for London.

She never did anything wrong, he jumped to conclusions and treated her so bad. He started going out with other women straight after he raped her and it wasn't long before he was engaged to someone else. I don't know I just can't see the love.

I wish Whitney had her spirit back and gave him what for, I don't think he ever said sorry. Ami: 'Dina, kinda knowing your tastes and what you "tolerate," I'll put my money down right now that you will not enjoy "Whitney My Love. My own life I re-read it again 15 years later Could not see any of the "charm" that it once held for me.

I found Whitney to be immature, even for an 18 year old, with all the antics everyone else has mentioned. I also liked Nicholas a "friend to Whitney who was enamoured with her MUCH better than Clayton and she ended up really short-changing his character as love stories go in a novella story she wrote for him.

Clayton had the classic "daddy" thing going with Whitney IMO, and even nicknamed her "little one" and called her it throughout the book [Oow - Ick!

HATE that! Just not believeable. She gave them much more of a connection in future books "Until You" , as I think she was still trying to "clean up their image. And you know Night and day in novels for McNaught. Skip Whitney and Read "Paradise," "Kingdom of Dreams," and "Something Wonderful" I also loved "Until You" which is a tad more controversial in opinion - but it was a keeper for me as well.

Just IMO. View all 4 comments. Jun 03, Tears Of Venus rated it it was amazing Shelves: 4-and-something-stars. What rock have I been living under? And people, it doesn't get any better than Whitney, my love. But once I actually picked it up and started reading? I never wanted it to end. Like ever. I wanted to stay with Clayton and Whitney forever.

I was invested from the very first page. I laughed, I cried, I stressed, my stomach hurt and I thought I was gonna be sick view spoiler [ when Clayton was rumored to have married Vanessa hide spoiler ]. Whitney owned my heart from the very beginning with her fiery, passionate and quirky personality.

Yes, she's young and naive, but it's a historical so that was expected. What I didn't expect was her spunk, her energy and her wit. Her actions drive her father to send her away to France, where she lives with her aunt in the hopes of becoming a proper lady.

To everyone's surprise, not only does she become a lady, but she is an instant sensation in the French society, drawing the attention of one of the most eligible bachelors in Europe.

Clayton, the duke of Claymore, is preceded by his reputation of rake, leaving behind him a long trail of broken hearts, ruined ladies and disappointed mamas.

He's rich, handsome and has the everything he wants, so you can imagine his surprise when, upon being introduced, Whitney doesn't even spare him a glance, with her sights still set on Paul. You guys, as weird as this may sound, I love it when men suffer, when they pine after the heroine and she doesn't give them the time of day.

Clayton was strongly attracted to Whitney and she didn't even know of his existence. At this point, my perverse heart is so happy. What follows is a long journey of hate, lust, love, jealousy and miscommunication.

At times, I wanted to shake Whitney and kick Clayton in the family jewels. The unending miscommunication between them drove me up the wall, that's why there's a half star missing. But strangely, I wouldn't change a thing about this book. In fact, I'm gonna get the paperback, love it and cherish it as if it was my child.

I haven't read all the historicals in the world, but I'm pretty sure this is the best one ever written. If you have already read this book, I'm jealous because you got to experience it before I did. If you still haven't read it, I'm jealous too because you get to experience it for the first time.

PS : is it just me or is the scene where he took her virginity the inspiration behind a certain scene in a certain autor's book? View all 7 comments. Mar 01, Irene Sim rated it it was amazing Shelves: read , romance , favorites , historical-fiction , love-after-marriage. I finished this book last night after a marathon reading almost half the book. I loved the heroine. Whitney has so many in common with Scarlett O'Hara but she is certainly much more likeable.

I wanted to slap Clayton myself a time or two because he was acting like an obnoxious bastard, even a gorgeous one. I loved Stephen. So smart and likeable. Can't wait to start his story Oct 20, Naksed rated it did not like it Shelves: great-big-terrible-misunderstanding , historical-romance. Went down to one star from four stars, upon re-read. All I can say is: Wow! Clayton Westmore is a Giant, Grade A asshole who needs to burn in hell one match at a time for all of eternity.

And he has shit for brains too! My previous review, written upon initial reading of this novel years ago, is below. I don't know what I was thinking. Set in the 19th century, in England and France, it tells the story of the 9th Duke of Westmoreland, the handsome, wealthy, uber-alpha Clayton and his passionate, torturous courtship of spirited Whitney Stone, a beautiful and witty but penniless young girl.

The protagonists predictably fight, kiss, have Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstandings and are tragically torn apart before being reunited. Nothing new in the romance genre yet very enjoyable due to McNaught's writing style: detailed, vividly descriptive, fast-paced, humorous, making it a real page-turner.

Even if you sometimes want to throw the book down in frustration at yet another contrived Big Misunderstanding that you could see coming a mile away, and the sudden stupidity and vileness of characters you had grown to love and root for until then, you are still compelled to continue because McNaught manages to make you care so deeply for her characters that you want to ride on the journey with them til the end.

This book is a very famous classic of genre. In the preface the author tells how she knew nothing about rules of the genre before she started writing it and that's why she was refused by publishers A LOT. But she succeeded in the end.

Also this book is notorious because apparently the author went back into the book in it was written in and started cleaning up all the rape of a heroine by our alpha. So you can see how I became curious. But oh no. This is the scene I'm giving up on: so this chuckling giggling laughing alpha decided to do a Christian Grey and ordered some spy or lawyer to snoop around and get a file on her they met once and that was a laughing-fest in the garden while she twinkled at him.

So this is a report: She is apparently well-read and uncommonly well-educated by a long string of tutors. She speaks fluent French, of course, as well as being proficient in Greek—enough so that she occasionally assists her uncle as translator during social functions where Greek diplomats are present.

And she had a sense of humor, and irreverent contempt for the absurd, that matched his own. Clayton gave up trying to understand his reasons for the step he was about to take. He wanted her, that was reason enough. She was warm and witty and elusive as a damned butterfly. She would never bore him as other women had; he knew it with the wisdom born of years of experience with the fair sex. And that's where I understood that not for me, sorry, nuh-uh. And they haven't even kissed and he hasn't started raping her even once!

Such a waste. View all 26 comments. What I found was a mixed bag. The two scenes that seem to provoke the most debate are the ones with the riding crop and, later on, Clayton's rape of Whitney. The former was a little OTT, I'll grant, and the short-lived rape wasn't all that remarkable either. In fact, it irritated me no end la 3. In fact, it irritated me no end later on when a detail of it was used to prolong yet another "misunderstanding" between the hero and heroine.

In fact, that was what peeved me most about the story. It was about pages too long, with the end marred by a "Oh, Good Gawd!