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From Publishers Weekly
The last in Feather's string of "V" romances (Vanity, Violet, Vixen), Vice is constructed around a series of predictable rescues from the underbelly of Georgian London. The hero-Tarquin, third Duke of Redmayne-buys a virgin, Juliana Ridge, in order to reclaim some land from his debauched, unredeemable cousin Lucien, who is dying of the pox. Tarquin will marry him to Juliana, then get the chit with child himself and thus keep Lucien's estate in the family. While they fall in love, firebrand Juliana fights to win rights and protections for prostitutes. It's a job best done, apparently, with an omnipotent peer around to bail you out and buy you pretty clothes.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The sinful new novel from the bestselling author of Valentine.
"Jane Feather is an accomplished storyteller...rare and wonderful." --Daily News, Los Angeles
"Jane Feather is an accomplished storyteller...rare and wonderful." --Daily News, Los Angeles
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Some things are better left undone,
By AvidReader (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vice (Paperback)
This book of the percentage of Jane Feathers other books, was quite a dissapointment. The last half of the book was quite unneeded.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Magistrate miraculously regains sight,
By glendene (Acadia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vice (Paperback)
I was moderately diverted by the plot, despite increasingly silly heroine, until the courthouse scene presided over by magistrate Sir John Fielding (younger brother of Tom Jones author Henry Fielding). John Fielding was blind (either since birth or an accident at age 19) and could not have "surveyed the women with a steady reproving stare", nor "regard the two complainants" nor "rest.. his gaze...". Neither could he have later accurately described the heroine's red hair and green eyes.While it is always interesting to find real historical personages peopling a novel, the author is obliged to get the facts right. It would be like writing a biography of Van Gogh & forgetting the part about his ear. In the end it is all the reader notices.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dull and repetitive, revolting premise,
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This review is from: Vice (Paperback)
A man who will do anything to save a family estate is not going to be the most attractive hero. Tarquin is not only all that, but he is completely selfish and unable to grasp Juliana's feelings about anything.She is so determined to fight him that she gets herself into ever more dangerous predicaments, and her campaign to reform the prostitutes takes up way too much time in the book which should rightfully have been spent with them getting to know each other and falling in love. As for the 'love scenes' he is there for all of two seconds and then pulls out without so much as a kiss and walks off. It is evident this author does not like writing those parts of the book, in which case let us please use our imaginations rather than be so badly let down. By the time the book is half over all the love scenes vanish anyway. He is a selfish man who moves people around like pieces on a chess board because he is wealthy and can do it. The idea of anyone loving him because of himself, and not because he is a Duke is totally thrown away. And the idea of them living happily ever after just does not ring true. A much better book if it were half the length as well!
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