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2.0 out of 5 stars
Dull and stupid....,
By Romance Lover "vt2949" (Sacramento, California USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lady of Desire (Mass Market Paperback)
Each book in this series has been increasingly bad. This one was barely palatable. The characters were, through 90% of the book, so shallowly drawn as to be almost completely cliched and unsympathetic. Although, with only 20 pages left, Jacinda and Billy finally show some depth of character, it was too late. By then, I had resorted to skimming to get through this boring book. Jacinda, a pampered princess who finally sees the light in the last 50 pages of the book, was childish and annoying. I think I'm going to stop reading historical novels whose heroines are under 21 years of age. I just can't stand the immaturity. Billy Blade, although slightly more interesting, was so sketchily drawn thoughout most of the book that he just seemed like a self-pitying, vain peacock. After he resumes his life in high society, the new Lord William spends more time chasing down his former hoodlum enemies in a petty fit of vengeance, instead of helping the poor that he supposedly came to care so much about. And throwing in the Lizzie and Alec subplots (in a thinly veiled effort to set up future books) was distracting. I'm very sorry I paid money for this book. I will definitely make sure that, in the future, I borrow this author's books from the library, for free.
2.0 out of 5 stars
This book didn't "wow" me.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Lady of Desire (Mass Market Paperback)
I read romance novels for their simplicity of plot and complexity of characters. In this case, I felt the plot was way overdone and the characters way underdone.Jacinda is described as rebellious, headstrong, spirited, and independent. But she displays none of those traits throughout the book. Other than her initial running away in the beginning, she is rather boring and sedate. She has no adventures and simply exists. Instead of the hero saving her from her mischievious misadventures, she saves his life twice. Billy...what can I say about Billy? He is supposed to be a rough guy, but come on! His fighting skills are so bad that he has to be saved by Jacinda twice. He lets the leader of the rival gang get away and gets caught in a burglarly that sends him to Newgate. He grovels to his abusive father. When he gets jealous, he growls, but never does anything about it. I mean, where's the passion in this guy?! Okay, so he trades a few barbs with the old guy that Jacinda is trying to hoodwink into marriage, but does that really qualify as being a stand up guy? I could go on and on... Call me old-fashioned or call me a traditionalist. But I want the woman to be saved physically and the man to be saved emotionally. Billy is so emotional that even the sex scenes were boring and painful to read. Jacinda is so sure she will end up like her mother (a known harlot) that she is half slut/half ninny. There is just no passion between these two. The characters seemed wooden and the storyline just ridiculously complex. I can't wholeheartedly recommend this book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Lady of Desire,
By Becky Lee (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lady of Desire (Mass Market Paperback)
In this fourth installment of Gaelen Foley's Knight family series, Lady Jacinda Knight, youngest of the Knight family runs from home, only to find herself in the middle of a gang war in the seedy underbelly of 1816 London. When Jacinda finds herself rescued by none other than the criminal world's swarthy leader, Billy Blade, her world turns upside down. Running from a marriage she doesn't want, and the fear of becoming a "fallen" woman like her mother, Jacinda finds herself thrust back into the world she was running from.When the presumed dead Earl of Rackford shows up the ton, Jacinda is taken off guard to realize the most eligible gentleman in her upper class world, is none other than the rookery thief who leaves her slightly weak in the knees. Jacinda spends the novel turning Rackford into a gentleman, while Rackford turns Jacinda into a scandalous heroine. Though most series tend to decline after the first few titles, Foley packs a massive punch with this wonderful novel. Readers will sympathize with Jacinda, while falling head over heels for the thieving Earl. Nearly impossible to believe, with the impression Foley left on the romance world after Lord of Fire and Lord of Ice, this book is just as good, if not better than its predecessors. With the fifth book in the series due out in early 2004, one can only wonder what Foley has up her sleeve next.
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