Emma Locke
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HE PUT HER ON A PEDESTAL
When Celeste Gray arrives in the sleepy village of Brixcombe-on-the-Bay, she thinks she's one step closer to leaving her notorious past behind. She even suspects the deliciously handsome--if somewhat stuffy--viscount next door is developing a tendre for her. That is, until the day Ashlin Lancester learns she's not the unassuming spinster she's pretending to be.
NOW SHE HAS FARTHER TO FALL
After a decade of proving he is nothing like his profligate father, Ash is horrified to have given his heart to a Cyprian. He launches a campaign to prove his attraction is nothing more than a sordid reaction he can't control. But he soon learns that unlike his father, he can't find comfort in the arms of just any woman. He needs Celeste. When he takes her as his mistress, he's still not satisfied, and the many late nights in her arms only make him want more..
The book starts with Celeste retiring to the country with her friend Elizabeth, having retired from being a courtesan (associated with the “Cypriots”)
The local landed gentry - Ash - sells her her new cottage. It is not long before she realises that he is the son of an aristocrat with a reputation for sleeping around and who was shot dead by his wife after one too many affairs. As a result Ash doesn't want the same reputation as his father so has remained celibate and trying to protect his sisters’ reputations whilst rebuilding the dowries that his father had squandered away.
When confronted with Celeste however all his planning and resistance is for naught, and he enters into a relationship with her when back in London, even knowing her sordid past. The relationship is short, but reality soon breaks through, especially when his two sisters take matters, and their own lives, into their own hands.
I agree with other reviewers that say it was slow to get started. I'm not entirely convinced of the Elizabeth character beyond being a bit of a mcguffin at the beginning - Celeste is willing to give up her London life for her at the beginning, but their relationship soon dropped after Elizabeth goes back to London, only briefly reappearing later in the book when she needs Celeste’s help.
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When Celeste Gray arrives in the sleepy village of Brixcombe-on-the-Bay, she thinks she's one step closer to leaving her notorious past behind. She even suspects the deliciously handsome--if somewhat stuffy--viscount next door is developing a tendre for her. That is, until the day Ashlin Lancester learns she's not the unassuming spinster she's pretending to be.
NOW SHE HAS FARTHER TO FALL
After a decade of proving he is nothing like his profligate father, Ash is horrified to have given his heart to a Cyprian. He launches a campaign to prove his attraction is nothing more than a sordid reaction he can't control. But he soon learns that unlike his father, he can't find comfort in the arms of just any woman. He needs Celeste. When he takes her as his mistress, he's still not satisfied, and the many late nights in her arms only make him want more..
The book starts with Celeste retiring to the country with her friend Elizabeth, having retired from being a courtesan (associated with the “Cypriots”)
The local landed gentry - Ash - sells her her new cottage. It is not long before she realises that he is the son of an aristocrat with a reputation for sleeping around and who was shot dead by his wife after one too many affairs. As a result Ash doesn't want the same reputation as his father so has remained celibate and trying to protect his sisters’ reputations whilst rebuilding the dowries that his father had squandered away.
When confronted with Celeste however all his planning and resistance is for naught, and he enters into a relationship with her when back in London, even knowing her sordid past. The relationship is short, but reality soon breaks through, especially when his two sisters take matters, and their own lives, into their own hands.
I agree with other reviewers that say it was slow to get started. I'm not entirely convinced of the Elizabeth character beyond being a bit of a mcguffin at the beginning - Celeste is willing to give up her London life for her at the beginning, but their relationship soon dropped after Elizabeth goes back to London, only briefly reappearing later in the book when she needs Celeste’s help.
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charminganearlThe second of five impoverished sisters, Miss Elinor Conley knows her dream of becoming a lady is farfetched. When an unmarried gentleman happens by her brother's smithy, it is up to her to act quickly—and rashly—to secure his interest. But Grantham Wendell, Earl Chelford, isn't in the market for anything more than a new horseshoe. What's a bachelor to do when an innocent miss turns up at his Christmas Eve bacchanalia? He ought to make her leave, but his Twelfth Night party just became more entertaining..
Received in ebook format from Netgalley.com, having read other books in the series - the reviews of which are here and here.
Elinor is the second daughter of a blacksmith, lives in a small Gloucester town. One day she sees Grantham stop by to get his horse reshod, and she makes a decision to marry him, even though she knows nothing about him.
She devises a plan to get his attention, only for it to go near fatally wrong, and it's only when she's in his house that she realises how little she knows him - his other Christmas guests are here for one of his annual "Bacchanalia"s - where half the guests are prostitutes for the other half.
Grantham is bored of his friends, but uses them to forget the death of his younger sister some years previously. However, he is enchanted by the innocent Elinor, a nice foil to the world weary and far too knowing other women he's taken to having as friends.
In the meeting with her previously never met Aunt - who Elinor finds out is not only a twin of her mother but disowned for being an actress - she finds an ally and that there is much she hasnt been told and just how naive and innocent she actually is.
Elinor is perhaps a little too naive for some readers - but as a woman with limited social circles, and certainly never presented with the situations she finally finds herself in, perhaps we're too modern and cynical a set of readers. One slight quibble early on - the village is referred to as "5 blocks long" - an Americanisation that should never have strayed into a Regency English village (boooo!)… (mehr)
Received in ebook format from Netgalley.com, having read other books in the series - the reviews of which are here and here.
Elinor is the second daughter of a blacksmith, lives in a small Gloucester town. One day she sees Grantham stop by to get his horse reshod, and she makes a decision to marry him, even though she knows nothing about him.
She devises a plan to get his attention, only for it to go near fatally wrong, and it's only when she's in his house that she realises how little she knows him - his other Christmas guests are here for one of his annual "Bacchanalia"s - where half the guests are prostitutes for the other half.
Grantham is bored of his friends, but uses them to forget the death of his younger sister some years previously. However, he is enchanted by the innocent Elinor, a nice foil to the world weary and far too knowing other women he's taken to having as friends.
In the meeting with her previously never met Aunt - who Elinor finds out is not only a twin of her mother but disowned for being an actress - she finds an ally and that there is much she hasnt been told and just how naive and innocent she actually is.
Elinor is perhaps a little too naive for some readers - but as a woman with limited social circles, and certainly never presented with the situations she finally finds herself in, perhaps we're too modern and cynical a set of readers. One slight quibble early on - the village is referred to as "5 blocks long" - an Americanisation that should never have strayed into a Regency English village (boooo!)… (mehr)
I’m 62% in and frankly a bit embarrassed on behalf of the heroine due to her chasing the hero so hard no matter how many times he shoves his indifference to her in her face. Just when I think she’s wising up after he tells her that he is head over heels in love with a woman who knows about his feelings for her , she’s all “Perhaps she could change him.” Ugh.
Okay, finished and immediately dove into the second book, as this is a cliffhanger extended intro/prologue. It’s all one story so they kind of blend together, but I have to say, while there is some QUALITY angst and excellent steam, I just don’t quite understand the heroine’s confidence. She’s described as plain, she’s a spinster, he’s never noticed her, he’s in love with someone else and he is a rake that is coveted by every woman in the ton? While I enjoyed her anxiety aboutinheriting her mother’s “madness” - her mother killed her father for his infidelity , it eclipsed the angst I was seeking, namely a plain spinster pining for a man she should think could never care for her. I have a very specific trope that I look for, and frankly, this is not it.
I rate books based on them fulfilling my personal preferences, so it probably deserves another star, as it is well-written, I couldn’t put it down, and has unique characters with a very developed plot that was much more complex and non-tropey than I was expecting. (3.5 stars)… (mehr)
Okay, finished and immediately dove into the second book, as this is a cliffhanger extended intro/prologue. It’s all one story so they kind of blend together, but I have to say, while there is some QUALITY angst and excellent steam, I just don’t quite understand the heroine’s confidence. She’s described as plain, she’s a spinster, he’s never noticed her, he’s in love with someone else and he is a rake that is coveted by every woman in the ton? While I enjoyed her anxiety about
I rate books based on them fulfilling my personal preferences, so it probably deserves another star, as it is well-written, I couldn’t put it down, and has unique characters with a very developed plot that was much more complex and non-tropey than I was expecting. (3.5 stars)… (mehr)
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Received in ebook format from Netgalley.com, having read other books in the series - the reviews of which are here and here.
Elinor is the second daughter of a blacksmith, lives in a small Gloucester town. One day she sees Grantham stop by to get his horse reshod, and she makes a decision to marry him, even though she knows nothing about him.
She devises a plan to get his attention, only for it to go near fatally wrong, and it's only when she's in his house that she realises how little she knows him - his other Christmas guests are here for one of his annual "Bacchanalia"s - where half the guests are prostitutes for the other half.
Grantham is bored of his friends, but uses them to forget the death of his younger sister some years previously. However, he is enchanted by the innocent Elinor, a nice foil to the world weary and far too knowing other women he's taken to having as friends.
In the meeting with her previously never met Aunt - who Elinor finds out is not only a twin of her mother but disowned for being an actress - she finds an ally and that there is much she hasnt been told and just how naive and innocent she actually is.
Elinor is perhaps a little too naive for some readers - but as a woman with limited social circles, and certainly never presented with the situations she finally finds herself in, perhaps we're too modern and cynical a set of readers. One slight quibble early on - the village is referred to as "5 blocks long" - an Americanisation that should never have strayed into a Regency English village (boooo!)… (mehr)