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From the Journals of Sophia Noirot: "A dress is a weapon. It must dazzle his eye, raise his temperature . . . and empty his purse." A blue-eyed innocent on the outside and a shark on the inside, dressmaker Sophy Noirot could sell sand to Bedouins. Selling Maison Noirot's beautiful designs to aristocratic ladies is a little harder, especially since a recent family scandal has made an enemy of one of society's fashion leaders. Turning scandal to the shop's advantage requires every iota of Sophy's skills, leaving her little patience for a big, reckless rake like the Earl of Longmore. The gorgeous lummox can't keep more than one idea in his head at a time, and his idea is taking off all of Sophy's clothes. But when Longmore's sister, Noirot's wealthiest, favorite customer, runs away, Sophy can't let him bumble after her on his own. In hot pursuit with the one man who tempts her beyond reason, she finds desire has never slipped on so smoothly . . .
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By kara-karina
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I adore Loretta Chase, and this series is one of her finest. She is witty, sharp and extremely romantic without being sappy. You don't get to keep the hero angsty, dark and brooding, because the heroine is usually like a hurricane which snatches him and whirls him away until he is too dizzy to brood and have no idea what hit him.
Scandal Wears Satin is no different. Sophy Noirot is a gorgeous and extremely sharp journalist for London's most famous gossip newspaper. Longmore is a bored young aristocrat whose lack of purpose poisons all his life and pursuit of pleasures. Despite all that, he is very funny, very handsome and very sceptical of sisters Noirot, whose dressmakers' shop dresses his younger sister Lady Clara.
However when Clara bolts after a disastrous forced engagement to a fortune hunter it's up to Longmore and ever resourceful Sophy to chase her across the country and create an elaborate scheme to extricate poor girl from from the villain's clutches without ruining her reputation.
Pffff. Nothing like bonding over some swindler's plan, and those two are ever suited with each other...
The thing with Loretta is that she goes for the gut. You keep laughing over the characters delightful banter, and then BAM! she does something so casually but deeply romantic that it cuts straight through you. Both Longmore and Sophy understand the ridiculousness of their attraction to each other and keep fighting it, but they still fall head over heels for each other. *sigh* It's just lovely without being silly, and I adored it.
A MUST READ.
Scandal Wears Satin is no different. Sophy Noirot is a gorgeous and extremely sharp journalist for London's most famous gossip newspaper. Longmore is a bored young aristocrat whose lack of purpose poisons all his life and pursuit of pleasures. Despite all that, he is very funny, very handsome and very sceptical of sisters Noirot, whose dressmakers' shop dresses his younger sister Lady Clara.
However when Clara bolts after a disastrous forced engagement to a fortune hunter it's up to Longmore and ever resourceful Sophy to chase her across the country and create an elaborate scheme to extricate poor girl from from the villain's clutches without ruining her reputation.
Pffff. Nothing like bonding over some swindler's plan, and those two are ever suited with each other...
The thing with Loretta is that she goes for the gut. You keep laughing over the characters delightful banter, and then BAM! she does something so casually but deeply romantic that it cuts straight through you. Both Longmore and Sophy understand the ridiculousness of their attraction to each other and keep fighting it, but they still fall head over heels for each other. *sigh* It's just lovely without being silly, and I adored it.
A MUST READ.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Romney
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Good: This book goes back to the sort of characters she's written well before, with enough differences to make it interesting. Smart, funny, emotionally true dialogue. Incredible historical detail. The clothes alone are marvellous. I'd be reading it again right now except my friend insisted on borrowing it.
Bad: Its part two of a trilogy and (unlike her previous groups of books) it doesn't feel quite like a complete book. Odd things are brought up and not resolved. I bet it makes more sense if I'd read Silk Is for Seduction (book 1) just ahead of it. I'll be happy to re-read them all when book 3 comes out...
Bad: Its part two of a trilogy and (unlike her previous groups of books) it doesn't feel quite like a complete book. Odd things are brought up and not resolved. I bet it makes more sense if I'd read Silk Is for Seduction (book 1) just ahead of it. I'll be happy to re-read them all when book 3 comes out...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is my favorite Loretta Chase romance since her Carsington quartet - witty and sharp as always, with wonderfully smart, funny characters, hilarious situations, and real, deep emotion underneath.
I'd given up on the first book in her Dressmaker series because I didn't feel that kind of emotional connection with it, but I'm so glad that I was persuaded to try reading this second book in the series (which stands alone perfectly) anyway...and now that I've finished and loved it so much, I'm going to go back and try the first book again to see if maybe I was just in the wrong mood when I tried it.
Scandal Wears Satin is so funny, smart, and deeply humane in the way Chase writes her fabulous, sparring characters - and, by the end, it's really deeply romantic, too! A total joy. I can already tell that I'll be rereading it many times.
I'd given up on the first book in her Dressmaker series because I didn't feel that kind of emotional connection with it, but I'm so glad that I was persuaded to try reading this second book in the series (which stands alone perfectly) anyway...and now that I've finished and loved it so much, I'm going to go back and try the first book again to see if maybe I was just in the wrong mood when I tried it.
Scandal Wears Satin is so funny, smart, and deeply humane in the way Chase writes her fabulous, sparring characters - and, by the end, it's really deeply romantic, too! A total joy. I can already tell that I'll be rereading it many times.
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