- Mass Market Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: Avon Books; Reissue edition (30 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060593318
- ISBN-13: 978-0060593315
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.7 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 401,305 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The men of the Bastion Club are powerful, loyal, and not averse to overcoming danger. Now, after years of loyal service to the Crown, one by one they must face that greatest danger of all...love.
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The last of his line, Jack, Baron Warnefleet, flees London after nearly being compromised into marrying a dreadful female. Turning his back on marriage, he rides home to the estate he has not seen for years Outside his gate, however, Jack rescues a lady from an unmanageable horse. But Lady Clarice Altwood is no meek and mild miss. She is delectably attractive, undeniably capable and completely unforgettable. It quickly becomes clear that Clarice is in danger and Jack must use every ounce of his cunning to protect this richly passionate woman...who has so quickly stolen his heart.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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While I agree that this author's books have got annoyingly formulaic, this one stuck out for me because the match between the protagonists was more of an equal one. The heroine is 29, so as a grown woman she can be something other than a tender innocent, and be a fully fleshed strong woman. While her strenghth of character might come across as arrogance, you have to look at it more from the point of view as to how women were viewed at the time, and it must have been frustrating to be treated as not terribly bright, and only useful as either a decorative ornament for some man's arm or a broodmare if you wore skirts.
Her history makes it clear that she has good reason to be strong willed and I loved her as a character. I also enjoyed the fact that the mystery was more the main point of the story though the romance, though it was far from secondary.
As for the 'lady bountiful' comment made by a previous reviewer, all the males in this author's books have workers and other 'underlings' who lives and fortunes are reliant on them because they are major landowners and practically owed whole towns and counties. Why it is arrogance for a woman to take on a man's role because she's a capable, titled woman and she has a genuine concern for the those who she would have been raised to see as her 'dependants'. This says a lot about people who'd rather have women in 19th century novels doing needlepoint or playing the pianoforte. Would that make better reading or make the reader admire her more as a character? Well that depends on the reader.
Her history makes it clear that she has good reason to be strong willed and I loved her as a character. I also enjoyed the fact that the mystery was more the main point of the story though the romance, though it was far from secondary.
As for the 'lady bountiful' comment made by a previous reviewer, all the males in this author's books have workers and other 'underlings' who lives and fortunes are reliant on them because they are major landowners and practically owed whole towns and counties. Why it is arrogance for a woman to take on a man's role because she's a capable, titled woman and she has a genuine concern for the those who she would have been raised to see as her 'dependants'. This says a lot about people who'd rather have women in 19th century novels doing needlepoint or playing the pianoforte. Would that make better reading or make the reader admire her more as a character? Well that depends on the reader.
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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AFTER READING THE REVIEW FOR THIS BOOK, I WAS UNSURE WHETHER TO BUY IT. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT SHAME! YES, THE HEROINE IS VERY ARROGANT BUT WHEN YOU LEARN ABOUT HER BACKGROUND YOU START TO UNDERSTAND. I ENJOYED THE BOOK PRACTICIALLY FROM START TO FINISH. IT WAS WELL WORTH THE TIME AND MONEY!! I LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF THE BASTIAN CLUB.
28 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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I will forgive Stephanie a lot because of her previous novels which were - with a couple of exceptions - a delight. The Bastion Club started out well but now with this fourth, the characters have become so formalaic that I can predict what the remaining stories in the series will be. There will be a heroine who is DETERMINED not to wed (even when meeting the hero hunk - the only man she has ever met who has engaged all her senses); a hero who toughened by war eschews the Season's vapid misses, who falls for her but does not dare declare his love.Because he doesn't know if she loves him. Then she falls in love but does not want to tell him for reasons we do not know - or in my case care.
A Fine Passion has a truly awful and unlikeable heroine who believes that everything she does is right. And what a snob. Ever mindful of her high-born roots she loves acting the Lady Bountiful to the serfs around her, again believing that all her decisions are perfect. Worst of all, she has no sense of humour. The hero seems in her sexual thrall and under her stern, snobby thumb - I give the marriage six months! The 3 stars are because I did finish the book though I skipped towards the end but I am not eager to read the stories of the rest of the Bastion Club members and that's a pity.
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