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Angel's Devil (A Regency Romance)

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This is a light but darling romantic triangle. The very lovely and impatient Angelique Graham just knows she is in love with her darling Simon, but her parents are going to force her to wait nine months before they will even consider announcing the engagement.

Enter, Simon's scandalous rake of a cousin the disreputable Lord James Faring who is just home from the continent after a five year absence. He is recovering from wounds received in a war and wounds to his heart, but he is at once entranced with the little 'hoyden' Angelique from the moment they bumped into one another on the London docks.

After she finds out who he is - a plot is hatched to have James make overtures to her in front of her parents so that the parents would be happy to set an earlier date to save her from the clutches of 'the Devil'. As, things will get on, it doesn't take long for the game playing to become serious and Angelique finds out who she truly does love!

A darling story....very hard to come by but well worth the effort. You'll just love all the secondary characters, particulary Angeliques twin siblings - Henry and Helen, and the mastiff Brutus!

I think I'm living in the wrong era! I absolutely loved this book - the period was described wonderfully - I felt like I was there!

Angelique, strong willed and impatient, was denied by her parents the speedy wedding she desperately wanted with her beloved Simon. So she hatches a plan, with the assistance of Simon's cousin ~aka~ The Devil. The Devil relunctanly agrees to pursue Angel in hopes of convincing her parents that a speedy wedding to Simon is the only safe option!

Will this harmless charade backfire on the Devil or the Angel?

This is a story about Angelique (Angel) and Lord James Faring (Devil) Angelique thinks she has found her beloved "Simon" but her parents are going to make her wait 9 months to marry him, So they decide to use the notorious rake Lord Faring in a plot to panic the parents into changing their mind, after all who wants their daughter to be courted by a rake? Well.... things dont go as planned and when Angel falls in love with Lord Faring things get mighty tricky. Lord Faring is ALL MAN he is sexy and very likable. The book is enjoyable from start to finish.

This is a sweet love story. No s*x, but a sweet love story anyway. She writes a little too wordy for me though. I could have had a little less dialogue. Easy read.

I liked this book fairly well, and it did keep me reading. I have to say, though, that certain aspects just didn't make sense to me, most particularly Angel's parents. (Spoiler alert.) Sure James has a bad reputation...but he is also a rich Marquis and war veteran. Even after they spend time with him and learn that he isn't that bad, they still insist on painting him as a horrible guy. Also, when James and Angel are caught kissing, the logical response would have been to insist that they marry. Marrying her off to Simon would not have been especially helpful to her ruined reputation.

Despite all that, I did enjoy reading the book, which is why I gave it 4 stars.

I absolutely loved this story! Devil was a great character and I thoroughly enjoyed him and Angel coming together.

Danielle

So I got excited when I found out a kindle version was available of this as I read this many years ago when I first became a S.E. fan and a fan of romance novels. This is one of those books though, that stayed with me throughout the years as I remembered a lot of the scenes in this book than I normally remember from others. James is just really one of the best heroes out there and I loved how he and Angel meet and the way they flirted. (Minor spoiler) What stops me from giving this a 5 star is that I was disappointed with the turn of events towards the end, Im glad they got the I love yous out the way before anything was resolved but I Felt S.E. didnt know how to take it from there. And I didnt like the assumptions that followed, I would have prefer to see them try to find a way to work out being together though Angel was secretly engaged to James cousin, especially with James knowing what he knew. Overall though, so happy I revisited this book (all the characters, the dog and the children were delightful) for it's a keeper for me!

After reading a fair number of romances, this one was refreshing - to say the least. Enoch has told a delightful, heart warming love story and managed to engage the reader's interest with the witty dialogue and strong personality types. James, a marquis returning from war, is not set on a love match after a bad situation of misplaced affections in his youth yet after his brush with death on the battlefield he has decided it is time to meet his familial duty and take a wife. It is his youthful indiscretion that involved a duel that has earned him the reputation of "Devil". Angelique agrees to "help" James' search for a wife by introducing the "Devil" to eligible ladies who meet his criteria, but really she only does it to ridicule him as he cites that love is not a criterion for his marriage. Angelique never sees James as this "Devil" for which he earned the reputation after the notorious duel with his close friend. From their very first meeting, Angelique and James are drawn to each other. Enoch is a master at developing an attraction that is not overlaid with premature intimacy. To see two characters fall in love like this, is what romance is about. Just lovely.