The scarred hero of the Napoleonic wars who has little use for London society, the reclusive Viscount Davenport is drawn by an urgent request to return to the family estate, where he is confronted by the theft of an ancient family heirloom--rumored to carry a strange curse--the disappearance of his younger brother, and an encounter with a beautiful
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"Romantic Times"
DaRif knows her time period and how to sustain the suspense.
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With a muzzy shake of his head, the gentleman twitched at the damp greatcoat draped over his shoulders. Read the first page
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The second in a series which started with "the tiger's mistress". Maxwell, Viscount Davenport is reunited with independant spice trader Olivia Marquand in a hunt for the Viscount's missing brother and a host of small stolen items, including it becomes clear, several pretty,but powerless, young women. Olivia's connections in the shadier sides of commerce force Max to come to her for help as he is quite out of his depth. Olivia and Max then spend the first third of the book in uneasy alliace feeling that the other doesn't like them, which becomes a little tedious, they also show remarkably little brain in solving the puzzle of the missing brother and connecting this to the missing women and stolen items. If it hadn't been for the much more amusing characters of Mr Winslow (Olivia's second in command at the shipping company) and the darkly brooding Earl of Killingworth aka the Irish Wolfhound (undoubtably the hero of the next book)who both seemed to be able to dredge up, out of the blue,or have dragged out of them a sliver of just the right information at the right time.
As you can probably tell I wasn't desporatly impressed, though some of the conversation was spirited, witty and amusing and many of the descriptive passages were atmospheric and painted clear impressions, the acctual character development and plot seemed to me laboured and slow. I read Celeste Bradley's lastest with great pleasure and speed (unputdownable) in a tenth of the time and in the middle of trying to finish this mildly pleasant diversion.
As you can probably tell I wasn't desporatly impressed, though some of the conversation was spirited, witty and amusing and many of the descriptive passages were atmospheric and painted clear impressions, the acctual character development and plot seemed to me laboured and slow. I read Celeste Bradley's lastest with great pleasure and speed (unputdownable) in a tenth of the time and in the middle of trying to finish this mildly pleasant diversion.
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Romance, mystery and a wily villian
17 Mar 2007
By Barbara Buckley
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
The hero and heroine are both unusually intelligent people caught up in a intriguing mystery concerning a missing family member and an ancient family heirloom. Our hero and heroine were first captured by the author in an earlier book "The Tiger's Mistress", so knew each other before this book takes place. Once you begin this tale, you won't want to put it down until the end!
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Give it 3.5 stars
8 April 2005
By S. Reader
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
First, Olivia's assistant Winslow is a terrific character. One does feel the first book should have been read first; I often wondered what background information I was missing. There are some great moments, especially regarding danger and suspense. Honestly I was more intrigued by secondary characters the Wolfhound and sister Cara than by the romantic leads here. I did like Davenport, a lot, but he seemed much too insecure to make a good mate for Olivia. As for her, I never really warmed up to her. The suspense was quite good, but the romance lacked something for me. I'm interested in the other books, particularly the one I imagine is on tap regarding the Wolfhound and Cara, but I wasn't thrilled by this one. Three 3 1/2 stars.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A Good Read...But Not Without Some Problems!
11 Mar 2005
By Kristi Ahlers
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was overall a good read. What kept it from being a "Great" read was the fact that the reader might feel as if they have come into the middle of an on going story between our two main characters Olivia and Davenport. As a result their romance was a little less than full-filling since this reader felt as if she had missed out on something important with their past interaction.
This read was peppered with very good chemistry between Olivia and Davenport, a mystery surrounding a family heirloom that has a particularly nasty curse attached to it, and a search for Davenport's younger brother. Combine all of these aspects and you have a very good read.
I recommend this book but suggest that if you are new to Ms. DaRif you might want to pick up her first book "The Tiger's Mistress" as I feel that some of the missing pieces may be found here. I know that I will be picking up a copy none the less.
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This read was peppered with very good chemistry between Olivia and Davenport, a mystery surrounding a family heirloom that has a particularly nasty curse attached to it, and a search for Davenport's younger brother. Combine all of these aspects and you have a very good read.
I recommend this book but suggest that if you are new to Ms. DaRif you might want to pick up her first book "The Tiger's Mistress" as I feel that some of the missing pieces may be found here. I know that I will be picking up a copy none the less.
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