An Offer From a Gentleman

Advantages: Great characters
Disadvantages: Can't think of anything

...An Offer from a Gentleman is the third book in Julia Quinn's historical romance series The Bridgertons. The series is set in the early 1800s and is about the eight Bridgerton siblings. Each books focuses on a different sibling and their love story. This book focuses on Benedict, the second oldest Bridgerton sibling and Sophie Beckett, the illegitimate daughter of an earl. The plot to this book is not an original one, it's basically Cinderella re-written. After Sophie's father dies her stepmother begrudgingly keeps Sophie in her household in order to have the extra money that her late husband promised if she looked after his daughter. Sophie's step-mother hates her and uses her as an unpaid servant. When Sophie is twenty the other servants help her sneak out to a masquerade ball that's being hosted by the Bridgerton family. It is...

Brooke3 27.05.2009 · Read review
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I'll give you an Offer You can't Refuse with this book!

Advantages: Great read with good characters! :)
Disadvantages: None for me.

... Jill Mansell: An Offer you Can?t refuse Introduction I bought this book a while back from the book club which I use. I started reading Jill Mansell books a while ago when I read two of her books, Millie?s Fling and Miranda?s Big Mistake, both of which I fell in love with, and although not the type of books I ?couldn?t put down?, they were great reads and lasted me a good week or so to finish, meaning I wasn?t sitting up until 4am trying to finish the books! So when I saw she had many other books, I decided to buy her two newest: An offer you can?t refuse and Rumour Has it, this book was the first one I have read of the two, and the other is still sitting on the book shelf waiting to be read. I read the book over the last week, and quite enjoyed it, though not my favourite book I have ever read, it was...

stephbond89 30.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of An Offer You Can't Refuse - Jill Mansell

Meagre Offerings...?

Advantages: Goes along at a cracking pace with excellent side characters
Disadvantages: Involnurability and losing it's detective inclination

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Sa1sysoo 29.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Burnt Offerings - Laurell K. Hamilton

Another great offering from Panasonic

Advantages: Great black levels, terrific contrast and detail, freesat tuner
Disadvantages: The sound is somewhat average

...Since last year I have truly discarded CRT's which despite their qualities truly lack in comparison to plasma tv's in the "wow factor". This becomes evident the moment you witness one of the better ones for yourself, and led to me purchasing a Panasonic of my own which was the Panasonic 37 PX80. However not to be outdone, a friend of mine recently purchased this television and I eagerly visited to see for myself this latest offering from Panasonic. Now as is standard with both LCD and Plasma we either of the choice of full HD or HD Ready. The former allows you to enjoy the resolution in sharper detail at 1920*1080p. This is something of a gimmick for the upscaling of typical television channels but really comes into it's own with hi definition signals which of course blu ray allows for. The latter can also be very impressive, but...

grandchamp 02.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Panasonic TX-P42G10E

What's Your Price?

Advantages: Great characters
Disadvantages: Complicated in places

...Lola is ticking along as your average 17 year old, working in a not-very-inspiring job, spending her spare time with the-love-of-her-life Dougie and generally getting by quite well, thank you very much. Dougie's mother might not be quite as smitten with Lola as Lola is with her son, but you can't have everything. What she hadn't banked on, however, was how much his mother disliked her - generally far too posh to say such things out loud, it had escaped Lola's notice until right now when Mrs Tennant comes right out and says it. And that's not all she says - she has an offer for Lola: leave my son, let him go off to uni and don't follow him, and this cheque for £10,000 is all yours. This was the first point in the book where I gained a real respect for Lola, because despite being a poor 17 year old in a dead-end job, and despite being...

zoe_page 26.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of An Offer You Can't Refuse - Jill Mansell

A Bueno Offering from Nestle

Advantages: Great chocolate/wafer/hazelnut combination
Disadvantages: Unsatisfying, expensive and not different enough

...I've long been a fan of hazelnut praline and, to me the combination of hazelnut and crisp wafer is hard to beat as a light yet indulgent snack. For years the only way to experience this combination in the UK seemed to be at Italian coffee shops where hazelnut wafers were sold with coffees. Then, Kinder Bueno came onto the scene - a twin finger snack that was decidedly more chocolaty than the coffee shop offerings. I did, however, find Bueno rather unsatisfying (and pricey). Now there's another choice - KitKat Senses. From the house of Nestle, KitKat Senses combines thick chocolate, crunchy KitKat wafer and rich hazelnut cream to form an altogether more satisfying bite. Senses is a single finger bar, slightly larger than a finger Bueno. The chocolate is clearly Nestle, reasonably creamy, unmistakeably sweet and certainly...

CareBear 28.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nestlé Kit Kat Senses

Great special offers

Advantages: some good special offers to pick up
Disadvantages: not suitable for my regular shop to get everything i would need

...Lidl was founded in Germany in the 1930s as a grocery wholesaler, opening their first store in 1973. During the 1990s Lidl began opening stores throughout Europe and now have more than 380 stores. I have two near me, both within a 5 minute drive in opposite directions. I only really venture into Lidl when they have dropped a special offers leaflet through my door, which they did last week. One outstanding offer which drew me to the store was 4 tins of Branston Baked Beans for £1. If you have read any of my baked beans reviews you will knew that I am a bit of a worshipper.... So last week I had nipped in a picked up a pack of four but having finished the last tin this morning I wanted to go back to get more. I was surprised to see two sizes of trolley at Lidl, I had never paid much attention before, only popping in for a few bits...

theshinyone 26.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Lidl (Shop)

Family offerings

Advantages: Made me smile
Disadvantages: Might not make you smile

...a horse, She was vulgar and coarse, And it would have been an illegal marraige, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Faye's ten penny worth - (aged 4 1/2 - her granny taught her this one!!!) There was an old lady of seventy-two, She let off a fart,and away it flew, Up the river, And back down the dale, It did smell awfully stale!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - My pittiful offering - For all the world I didn't know, Why my hubby had to go, Could it be the things he didn't do? He couldn't cook a descent stew, Couldn't wash a single shirt, Nor sweep up a bit of dirt, And then there was his DIY, His efforts at that just made me cry, So why did he have to go? I'm sure I still didn't know. Then the noise began to roar, And suddenly I saw, A wrinkle of my nose began to tell, It was that awful stinky smell...

babajane32 15.05.2003 · Read review
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Review of Rhymes / Limericks

Good offers for beauty

Advantages: Loads of beauty products under 1 roof!
Disadvantages: Can sometimes be a bit pricey

..., with some good promotional offers on! Its a good customer experience!...

Izzy31 12.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Boots (Shop)

A book you can't refuse!

Advantages: Brilliantly written
Disadvantages: Addictive

...Lola Malone is 17. She is offered £10,000 by her boyfriend's mother to basically clear out of his life. She loves her boyfriend, Doug, so has no intention of taking her up on it. However, she uncovers a secret that day that makes her change her mind. Lola moves to Spain to lie low. Roll on a few years and Lola comes home to visit her family. With a passion for books she visits a bookstore and ends up with a job there, eventually becoming a manager of the store. An incident quite early on in the book brings her back into the path of her ex-boyfriend and his mother. She wonders how she could get back into her ex's good books, but realises that this probably not likely to happen. The book has just over 400 pages in it, and 56 chapters - each chapter is not too long, so you could get through quite a few in one sitting. It is...

jules.34 29.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of An Offer You Can't Refuse - Jill Mansell