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by Sylvia Day (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Brava (1 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0758217595
  • ISBN-13: 978-0758217592
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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For the notorious Lady Winter, seduction and duplicity are required to survive. Cunning and precision are the tools of pirate Christopher St. John. Pitted against one another, they are a surprise waiting to happen...Christopher St. John and Maria, Lady Winter, are infamous in Society for their misdeeds and their charming allures. Wherever they go, scandalized whispers and covetous glances follow. A ruthless pirate and a widow whose two husbands have met untimely deaths, the wickedly renowned figures are even more intriguing to the authorities. Now they've been set on the most provocative of tasks - St. John is released from prison to learn the "Wintry Widow's" intimate secrets, while Lady Winter is charged with performing a similar deception in reverse. One will succeed. One will hang. With the fate of loved ones in the balance, the unlikely couple embarks upon a battle of wills and wits that takes them from glittering ballrooms to the depths of the underworld to the candlelit pleasures of the bedroom. As they fall helpless to a desire and startling affinity neither expected, the deadly web of their subterfuge closes in, forcing them to make a choice. Individual freedom? Or an audacious scheme to keep an impossible yet irresistible love...

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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting story sunk under too much sex, 7 Jun 2007
By Helen Hancox "Auntie Helen" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews
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Sylvia Day's "Passion For The Game" is historical romance of the more earthy kind - there are more sex scenes in this story than anything else and, for this reader at least, it was a disappointment. The underlying plot and story of this book had potential: two very singular people, a smuggler pirate who is on his way to the gallows and a society Widow who is generally suspected of killing her two husbands, clash as they both try to use each other for their own ends. Both Christopher St John and Maria, Lady Winter, are interesting and lively characters whose strength of nature has been forged through their difficult histories.

Christopher St John has been released from Newgate so that he can get evidence against Lady Winter for the deaths of her two husbands who were actually agents of the crown. Lady Winter has been blackmailed by her murderous stepfather Viscount Welton to spy on Christopher St John. These two people therefore meet under the circumstances where they cannot trust each other as their lives, or those they love, are at stake. But as they spend more time in each others' company (usually horizontally in this book!) they begin to unravel the different layers of each others' personalities and find something rather more important together. There is also a subplot of Amelia, Maria's sister, and her blossoming into womanhood whilst under house arrest by her father - she is used as a bargaining chip to make Maria do Viscount Welton's bidding.

The plot is fairly good in this story but the disappointment for me was the ubiquitous sex scenes. One or two would have been enough to give us an idea that Christopher and Maria are compatible in bed but it seemed that they were leaping under the sheets at every possible opportunity and we had to have detailed all that they did there. Although this book is meant to be a romance it fell rather short on the romance and was far more of a sex manual and one which used rather coarse language as well, even between the hero and heroine. I was also not always entirely sure of the historical setting in many cases and some of the phraseology was American rather than 18th century English. There were some interesting characters such as Quinn, Amelia and Colin (who I imagine are the subject of a forthcoming book) but more could have been made of the hero and heroine in this story outside the bedroom. The book was a reasonable read but also a missed opportunity overlaid with too much sex.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book, www.curledup.com. © Helen Hancox 2007
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