- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Harlequin, Mills & Boon (5 Nov 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0263883086
- ISBN-13: 978-0263883084
- Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 10.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 468,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Wicked Wager (Historical Romance)
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She is the one woman who can reform his wicked ways...Lord Anthony Nelthorpe has committed many sins - including his attempt to seduce well-bred Jenna Montague Fairchild. But now Anthony's injuries from the Waterloo battlefield are being nursed by the very woman he wronged...Though he's the last man on earth Jenna wants to see, Anthony shocks the wealthy young widow out of her frightening apathy. Since Jenna has saved his rascal skin, does she not owe it to society to make a better man of him? Now Jenna is to reform him by Christmas, the season of miracles, while Anthony must figure out how to win this wager without wanting her all over again...
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Format:Kindle Edition
While this book deserves better than this review, I'm going to give it a bad review anyway because of the overall story encapsulated in a free story on the Mills and Boon website and this book. The free story (By Honour Bound)tells the tale of Jenna and Garrett Fairchild and I loved it - it is a short story and fairly formulaic, but this is to be expected given the author doesn't get paid for it.
I hate it when an author decides to kill of the hero of an existing story - it's like they don't have the imagination to think up a new heroine, and so have to recycle an old one. I found it irritating when Sandra Brown killed off Ross Coleman at the end of his daughter's book, but at least he had 20 or so years of his happily ever after. I know in real life, things don't always work out, but this is Mills and Boon for crying out loud! It's never been realistic!
Added to the fact that Ms Justiss killed of a previous hero, she also turned BHB's villain into the hero of WW - he'd tried to force Jenna (for force, read attempted rape) into marriage in BHB - and now he's a hero? Almost as bad as Catherine Coulter making a rapist in Warrior Song the hero of Fire Song!
Added to this, there were several historical errors (both dates and behavioural - the latter forgivable in fiction, the former not) which should have been picked up on by an editor, and some timeline issues, and the heroine verged on too stupid to live. The mystery was laughable.
All in all, as you've probably guessed from this review, I wasn't impressed. A shame, because I really do like some of Ms Justiss's books.
I hate it when an author decides to kill of the hero of an existing story - it's like they don't have the imagination to think up a new heroine, and so have to recycle an old one. I found it irritating when Sandra Brown killed off Ross Coleman at the end of his daughter's book, but at least he had 20 or so years of his happily ever after. I know in real life, things don't always work out, but this is Mills and Boon for crying out loud! It's never been realistic!
Added to the fact that Ms Justiss killed of a previous hero, she also turned BHB's villain into the hero of WW - he'd tried to force Jenna (for force, read attempted rape) into marriage in BHB - and now he's a hero? Almost as bad as Catherine Coulter making a rapist in Warrior Song the hero of Fire Song!
Added to this, there were several historical errors (both dates and behavioural - the latter forgivable in fiction, the former not) which should have been picked up on by an editor, and some timeline issues, and the heroine verged on too stupid to live. The mystery was laughable.
All in all, as you've probably guessed from this review, I wasn't impressed. A shame, because I really do like some of Ms Justiss's books.
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