It has all the history and the passion and the chemistry between the characters that I love, and it’s epic. In the span of that year, she has gifted me her McNaught collection (save for two books that are her all-time favorites.) Whitney, My Love is one of my top romances. She had a history of giving me good suggestions (namely a shared love of Johanna Lindsey’s Gentle Rogue – which was my first true romance and best freaking shit I ever read.) Now, my friend is not a big romance reader (she went through a phase at, like, 12, but never got back into it) but all of her reads were from her mom, who read it ages and ages ago.

Last year, my friend’s mom was like “YOU HAVE TO READ THIS” and thrust this book – Whitney, My Love – into my hands. Which is your all-time favorite? If you were recommending a McNaught novel to someone who had never read her books, which would you recommend? McNaught is one of the classic names in romance, and I know so many people who have an all-time favorite of hers on their shelves. Clearly, these two women in high school were on to something, because once I read those books, I had to read all of them.Īnd my reaction was the same with Perfect and Paradise: jerkish hero mends his ways, often with a grand gesture that left me in a puddle of sighs. If you open Perfect, it will fall into two pieces, so I rarely touch it.

This picture shows my copy of A Kingdom of Dreams, and beneath it is my copy of Perfect. Also, I think that's one of the very few times I've encountered a historical hero named “Jason.” I love Once and Always for the tortured hero, even if he's a big ol' jerkface in some scenes. That was my introduction to McNaught, and I started with Once and Always.It was all downhill from there. When I was in high school, I signed a somewhat-friend's yearbook, and I noticed that her best friend had signed the inside cover with a huge paragraph wherein she'd somehow included the title of every Judith McNaught novel (this was in 1993 so there were plenty of them) because they loved those books and read them over and over.

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