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Charming rascal Tristan Northwood seems to have it all: an ancient name, a noble inheritance, a lovely wife, and a son he adores. Women love him, men admire him, and it seems there is nothing he can't do, whether it's seducing a society wife or winning a carriage race. Little does society suspect that the name means nothing to him, the fortune is in his father's controlling hands, and he has no interest in his wife except a very distant friendship. Society bores him, and he takes dares because he only feels alive when he's dancing on the edge...until his wife's brother comes home from the wars.
Decorated war hero Major Charles Mountjoy jerks Tris out of his despair by inspiring feelings of passion Tris had never suspected himself capable of. Almost as terrifying as those feelings for Charles are the signs Charles might return his affection - or, even worse, that Charles sees the man Tristan has been trying so valiantly to hide from the world.
- Sales Rank: #77070 in Audible
- Published on: 2012-06-13
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 769 minutes
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
A stunningly beautiful historical romance you will re-read again and again!
By Lexi
Such a gorgeous book! The writing is outstanding, and the characterizations are rich and three-dimensional. Set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, the historical details are vivid and well-researched. I've added this to my "to re-read" shelf, knowing that I will come back to it again and again. Just a stunning story, and so well-executed.
MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW:
The first 20% or so of the book is devoted to the painful life of Tristan Northwood, a seeming bon-vivant who lost his mother at an early age, is estranged (at least emotionally) from his father, spends his nights seducing women and drinks himself senseless afterwards. Tris' father, tired of his wild lifestyle, gives him an ultimatum: marry and produce an heir, or be cut off and end up penniless. Tristan, with resignation, marries Lottie.
Lottie is a fascinating and almost anachronistic woman. She isn't interested in love, but she's a good woman, and she comes to care deeply for the troubled Tristan, bearing him an heir and giving him her solid, supportive friendship. But Tristan is depressed and miserable, and still drinks himself silly each night, if only to avoid the thoughts that keep him awake (he no longer is the womanizer he was). So Lottie contacts her twin brother, Charles, the handsome and successful Major Mountjoy, who is planning on returning to private life after years in the military (Tristan and Charles had never met before).
Charles is gay and Lottie has known it for years (they are quite an interesting lot, the Mountjoy's). The attraction between Charles and Tris is immediate, and deeply disturbing to the fragile Tristan. Charles learns that Tris intends to kill himself, and he intervenes - thus beginning a relationship between the two men that will save them both. Through all of this, Lottie, who is more than relieved that Tristan might be happy at last (and completely aware of the relationship - she's not interested in any physical relationship with her husband), gives the two men her blessing.
All of this happens before the book is 1/2 over! And that, in my opinion, is the beauty of this lovely novel. We learn about Tristan, feel his pain, understand where he's coming from, long before we ever meet Charles or even Lottie. The last half of the book focuses on the relationship between Tristan and Charles and their journey towards happiness as they recreate themselves. A nice added touch was the time Ms. Speedwell spent writing about the relationship between Tristan and his father, a man who genuinely loved his dead wife, and still mourns her loss, years later.
I cannot recommend this book too highly! A must for any lover of M/M historical romance. Definitely a gem.
Shira Anthony (a.k.a. Sarah Alexander)
Author of "From the Depths"
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
satisfying read
By Furio
If confronted with the mediocre (at best) works that clutter the M/M romance subgenre, especially those written by lady authors, this novel, flawed as it is, stands out to attention and deservedly so because of its unquestionable achievements. This is why I thought four stars where more equitable than the deserved three.
The setting is a common one: England in the early XIX century, the age of the Napoleonic wars to be precise.
The main difference from the general rubbish is that THIS author chooses to really EXPLOIT this setting and not to limit herself to a spattering of aristocratic titles the characters use to address each other. I had the impression the characters were the children of that precise time and not stereotypical figures to be found at any given epoch with little if any change.
Handsome, popular, smart Tristan is a bon vivant, a womanizer and a no gooder, just as much as any other nobleman's son of his time. Nobody seems to perceive the desperation that lurks behind his beautiful eyes. His father forces him into a loveless marriage to produce an heir and Tristan finds himself mated to a bizarre wife. He manages to build a decent friendship with her but this does not prevent him from falling deeper into depression. Enter Charles, his wife's twin and get ready for melodramatic fireworks.
Ms Speedwell has evidently read some German literature of the XVIII century and introduces a well known topos: the situation called by Italian Germanist Ladislao Mittner "triangolo filadelfico" (appr. philadelphic triangle - philadelphic to be understood in a classical Greek way). In a few words it is a highly conventional literary situation where two men develop a close friendship and one of them marries the sister of the other one. She does it with a twist, though: the friendship here is between the spouses and the love between the husband and his brother in law.
That this might be intentional is confirmed by the fact that the two twins are said to have a German mother and to make extensive use of the language; what German words (not always correct, I am afraid) actually come into the novel are usually easily understandable endearments.
In this first part of the novel there is already an amount of plot that most other authors would have deemed sufficient for an entire novel. That is not the case here. The meeting and falling in love of the two men does not bring the story to its end: plenty of events must still take place before the author gives us the expected happily ever after; it is a long, satisfying ride that is angst-y, melodramatic and emotional, but always remains within the boudaries of "moving" without stepping into "ridicule".
I read it with gusto and with as few interruption as possible, but it is not devoid of flaws, some of them serious.
First of all there are several inconsistencies or near inconsistencies, that is sentences that though not exactly contraddicting previous statements were quite unexpected. I shall make just one example: in the first part of the book Tristan admits to not speaking any modern language at all but in the third part, set in Bruxelles, he seems to have a good knowledge of French, a knowledge he cannot have developed in just two weeks.
Characterization has its flaws too and in a character-focused novel this carries some weight. Tristan and Charles actually grow up as individuals, they change for the better, they have a development. This was clearly intentional and makes a difference.
That said, Tristan acts younger and more immature than his age should grant. It was probably to enhance how much he changes thanks to his newfound love but it feels exaggerated. Moreover someone who is known for being a perfectly well bred gentleman would not behave like he does at times. Charles fits of jealousy do not ring true for one described as utterly kind and sensible. As was the case with the "near" inconsistencies, it is not that these accidents are entirely unjustifiable but surely they are out of character and some adjustment has to be taken.
Charlotte, Tristan's wife, is possibly the main problem. It must have been difficult to portray such a singular woman, well bred, daughter of her age but at the same time refreshingly open minded and utterly sensible. She is glad of her husband love for her twin brother and lovingly accepts it.
This in theory. When coming to life in the book, Charlotte is plain weird: sometimes she is just as Ms Speedwell intended her to be but more often she seems to be kind but utterly cold hearted. She is sometimes bright but more often obtuse, her strenght of character is most of the time just distant kindness tinged by indifference. As she is the third main character, another key difference from other M/M romances where just the two lovers are dealt with by their author, these inconsistencies have substantial weight: when Charlotte was on stage I constantly had to adjust to an unexpected behaviour.
I wonder how the editors of this book could have let these problems slips from their attention. It is still good, a pleasant read that will keep you glued to your seat, but could have been great and unfortunately is not.
Sex scenes are not many and never gratuitous. I suggest you buy the kindle edition as the printed one is outrageously expensive.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Historical hat trick...and a romantic triumph
By Ulysses Dietz
A gay romance novel in which the Duke of Wellington is a character? Just imagine, if you will. Rowan Speedwell's "Kindred Spirits" pulls off a neat hat trick with a skill not much seen outside the historical romances of regency England penned by Georgette Heyer. Even in comparison with the ancestress of all of these books--Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," Speedwell has accomplished something quite remarkable. The book is beautifully and elegantly written, with a compelling narrative, fascinating characters and a romantic plot arc that will fulfill every promise it makes to the reader.
The real trick, of course, is to present a gay romance in a way that is emotionally plausible without being absurdly anachronistic. Speedwell gives us the characters of Tristan Northwood and Charles Mountjoy; both aristocratic, both handsome, and both very much burdened with inclinations that fly in the face of prevailing English social mores of the 1810s. Speedwell offers her readers a profound understanding of literature and language of this period, as well as a firm grasp of both actual history (the written kind) and speculative history (the kind that we know only by inference and extrapolation). The ultimate question in a book like this is the reader's ability to accept the central premise in the historical context, and that Speedwell has given us without a false step.
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