Customer Reviews

An Improper Proposal

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This charming novel is the perfect companion for that Mexican vacation chair. It's quick paced, it's light reading, and it's very entertaining.

The story begins with the banter between three older brothers and their unruly baby sister, Payton Dixon. Immediately, we are aware of Payton's struggle to keep her bosom inside the unfamiliar corset she is wearing. These brothers have raised nineteen-year-old Payton, onboard their clipper ships, and she is more accustomed to wearing a man's wardrobe.

What a delightful young woman, she is unlike any leading lady I have yet to experience. Payton is wild, untamed, and frankly speaks her mind. Yet, on the other hand, she is sensitive, sensual, and naive.

Her two most desired dreams: to be the captain of her brothers' newest ship, "The Constant", and to wed her secret love -- her brothers' best friend, Connor Drake. Ah, Captain Drake, a ravishing gentleman, an English Baron, and a man honor bound to marry a scheming vixen on the morrow.

Tonight, however, the game unfolds. Captain Drake cannot take his eyes off the ripening Miss Payton Dixon. He has just become "painfully" aware that Payton has "developed" into a much desired lady. Cabot skillfully spins her words creating enormous fun.

I enjoyed this book. It is action packed, there is no arguing between the two main heartbeats, and the love scenes are steamy and sizzling. If there is a serious complaint, it is the tomfoolery of Payton's brothers. At times, their behavior seemed moronic.

Overall, a great vacation book -- no worries, mate. Fluff, but oh such pleasant gossamer.

Grace Atkinson, Ontario - Canada.

I absolutely adored this book. Unlike most historical romances I've read, when the heroine is unconventional, it doesn't seem to really impact their lives. Payton's life, however, has been defined by her free spirit. She lives in a time when proper women sat at home darning socks. Payton, however, can fight, shoot, and navigate a ship better than her brothers. Unfortunately, being a girl, her brothers, who encouraged her before, are expecting her to be the dutiful little sister. She loses the ship she wanted to captain to Sir Connor Drake, the man she has been wild over since she was a girl. But she really steals the heart when, instead of weeping and fainting, she manages to rescue him later in the book. This is most definitely a delightful read.

I didn't think I was going to like this book at first. I really didn't like some of the characters, namely ross and georgiana. But after i got use to the bickering etc. in the beginning, and once Payton and Drake were on the ship, I loved it. I have not been disapointed yet with Ms. Cabot. She is on my must buy list.

I finished this book in one night. It is filled with witty, sparkling diaglog, HUMOR, a spunky heroine, a hunky hero and plenty of lively secondary characters. The action never stops. The love making is hot. This was my first Patricia Cabot book, but it will not be my last. Good read. Highly recommended.

After reading her last novel, A Little Scandal, I was absolutely hooked with the phenomenon that Patricia Cabot has proven to be. She's a fresh and original author who never fails to make you laugh with her unique plots and outrageous dialogue. An Improper Proposal is the last of the 4 Patricia Cabot books I've read and it was as good as the other three. Payton Dixon is a herione you've never met in any other book -- a foul mouthed, take no prisoners tomboy with a heart of gold. She's got the formula for heartache as she's hopelessly in love with Captain Connor Drake -- a man she's known forever who only sees her as the flat-chested little sister of his best friends/employers. The plot sounds simple enough but the clincher is that as the book opens, Captain Drake is on the eve of his wedding day to a mysterious beauty. The book is fast paced with witty dialogue and steamy love scenes. I thoroughly enjoyed it. So why is my rating only three stars? Here's the reason why : Patricia Cabot manages to lure you into falling in love with her characters and plot in the book's beginning but leaves you high and dry in the end. This is a consistent problem that I've noticed in all her books. She has a perennial trouble in bringing home the bacon, so to speak. In any novel, you expect that defining romantic moment which is supposed to render the reader weak in the knees and short of breath. Her books lack this magical moment and it totally disappoints the reader since the author has built up your expectations with such a good beginning. Please editors, help Ms. Cabot. I hate to see her talent go to waste.

I LOVED this book!!!!!! It is by far one of the best books I have ever read, and whenever I find a book I love I run right out to the book store and buy all the books by the same author. At first I was getting irritated with the book, because it seems like the writer is speaking backwards or something, but ones I got used to the sentence structure, I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to read her other books. I love the humor and the hero and heroine were so funny and wonderful. I think everygirl wants a man like Drake!!!!

I read Ms. Cobat's A Littel Scandel and really enjoyed it. I was expecting to be hooked on this book. However that didn't happen for me.

Payton Dixon is a young girl who has been treated more like a young boy on a ship with her brothers all her life. She is totally infatuated with Drake, a Ship Captin employed by her family. Drake's brother dies giving him a title and land. Some how, he is to marry an terrible woman he does not love and received a ship as wedding gift that Payton wanted.

All right, so that is the skeleton of the story. I never got to like Drake through out the story. I thought Payton's brother had potentials: they were a little out of hand. I think Drake's intention to marry that awful woman throughout half of the book just really made me mad. He was being so stupid about the whole thing. How can someone who is suppose to be a smart sea captin be so stupid and not see through the marriage deal at all?

Payton was really quite shameful through out the book in her intention to chase Drake. I did not grow to like her or identify with her in any way. She was so in love with Drake that she was willing to put up with anything and everything. Some of the things she did in the beginning were quite funny, but they got really old by the end of the book when she was still being extremely stubborn and silly.

I am going to move on to the next Patricia Cobat book and hope that the next one would be better than this one.

Payton Dixon has loved Connor Drake for many years but when he is about to marry another woman and her father has given him her ship as a wedding present, she must take action. Unleashing a scandal in her own way, Payton stops the wedding but can she win Drake's love?

Connor Drake has always thought of Payton as a little girl, a tomboy. But when he glimpses her in all her finery he is shocked. Payton has grown up into a beautiful young woman.

Patricia Cabot has written a fast paced book set on the high seas and exotic locations, surely to please the reader. Highly recommended.

Patricia Cabot is such a talented author. She has the ability to spin a tale that you just don't want to put down. I found myself wishing her characters, especially the headstrong Payton Dixon, were friends of mine--they were so interesting. I couldn't stop laughing at each crazy situation they found themselves in. Patricia Cabot has a way of drawing the reader in and making them feel part of the action. I have never read a romance that had so much humor and adventure! I would definitely read more of her work.

I'm not kidding, this one will make you giggle. And the sex scenes are *smokin'*. If this book doesn't crack you up AND get you feeling like you'd like to snuggle up to that special someone, there's something wrong with you.