- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Dell; Reissue edition (Nov 15 1978)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0440107350
- ISBN-13: 978-0440107354
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 91 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #778,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
disappointing heroine,
By A Customer
This review is from: BAD BARONS DAUGHTER (Mass Market Paperback)
I started reading romantic fictions not long ago and heard a lot about the author(s), so I spent a small fortune on two second-hand Laura London books, Bad Baron's Daughter and Love's Stage. Bad Baron's Daughter is certainly a better book of the two. Most characters are well drawn, especially the hero, Lord Linden. He is a fascinating and complex character. To most people he is arrogant, cynical, callous, manipulative, worldly, he has his tender and caring side well hidden. He says the meanest and nastiest things! The most entertaining part of the book is his dialogues. The heroine, Katie, however is annoying in the extreme. She is seventeen but possesses the brain of a toddler. She is supposed to live a self-dependant and self-sufficient life most of her life, but she shows no intelligence or cleverness or slightest understanding of the world. The things she says and does would make a three-year old look sweet and cute but a seventeen-year dim-witted. She even manages to shoot herself by accident! The hero and heroine are so mismatched, I just don't believe that she can inspire love in him. Bad Baron's Daughter and Love's Stage share a similar storyline - a naïve country girl gets into trouble in wicked London and is rescued by a handsome lord who has broken countless hearts in the past but somehow falls in love with her. Laura London did write some of the cleverest lines, but their type of sweet, cute, brainless heroines are certainly out of date.
5.0 out of 5 stars
bad barons daughter, a wonderful evening read,
By A Customer
This review is from: BAD BARONS DAUGHTER (Mass Market Paperback)
if you can get hod of a copy of this book garb it and don't let it go! wonderful story, absolutely hilarious moments and a great happy ending. i have had this book for years and it is on my do not loan under any cicumstances list.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Yummy hero, wonderful characters,
By A Customer
This review is from: BAD BARONS DAUGHTER (Mass Market Paperback)
(Note, the last review for this book seems to be for the Gypsy Heiress, also a great book) I bought this book because I thought the title was ridiculous and I'm very glad I did. It was the first Laura London (Tom and Sharon Curtis) I've read. The heroine, naive but not stupid, finds herself alone in the world since her father, the Bad Baron, is off running away from creditors and angry husbands. She ends up in the custody of Lord Lyndon, who, to his own surprize finds himself protecting her rather than doing what a rake ought to do with a young vulnerable thing. But it's not the plot (tried and true, but still fun) that makes this book (and most of the Curtis' books) fly, it's the unexpected treasures: the heroine's response to Lyndon's attempt at seduction, the various interesting places he finds to stash her (with his former mistress for one). If you like regencies, you have to find a copy of this one.
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