The Bad Baron's Daughter (Candlelight Regency #255) [Mass Market Paperback]

Laura London (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Dell (November 15, 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440107350
• ISBN-13: 978-0440107354
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #719,481 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yummy hero, wonderful characters, May 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bad Baron's Daughter (Candlelight Regency #255) (Mass Market Paperback)

(Note, the last review for this book seems to be for the Gypsy Heiress, also a great book) I bought this book because I thought the title was ridiculous and I'm very glad I did. It was the first Laura London (Tom and Sharon Curtis) I've read. The heroine, naive but not stupid, finds herself alone in the world since her father, the Bad Baron, is off running away from creditors and angry husbands. She ends up in the custody of Lord Lyndon, who, to his own surprize finds himself protecting her rather than doing what a rake ought to do with a young vulnerable thing. But it's not the plot (tried and true, but still fun) that makes this book (and most of the Curtis' books) fly, it's the unexpected treasures: the heroine's response to Lyndon's attempt at seduction, the various interesting places he finds to stash her (with his former mistress for one). If you like regencies, you have to find a copy of this one.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Different; mismatched couple, January 23, 2005

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E. Lynch "romance book fanatic" (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bad Baron's Daughter (Candlelight Regency #255) (Mass Market Paperback)

The hero in this book was very different from the usual Regency genre male. In fact, Lesley Byrne, Lord Linden was a true rake. Women, gambling, etc... and all played before you in his actions and words. He held nothing back, rather nasty and disrespectful, and had a violent temper. I never warmed to him very much.

Our heroine is much like a Barbara Cartland novel, innocent beyond belief. As others stated, Kate lived independently in the country and talked about reading a lot but seemed to have no common sense. Written in the late 70's, I did not find this portrayal of Kate that annoying.

Other characters in the book were unusual too, starting with Kate's "friend" Zack who was the son of her father's mistress. He was realistically described and eager to rid himself of Kate and solve her problems by "selling" her to a protector. Kate's father (our "bad" Baron) did turn out to be disappointing after all but we are given so many indications of his bad moral character, it should not be a surprise. I enjoyed reading about Lesley's grandmother, brother Andrew and cousin Suzanne. Not enough room in the book to expand their roles but I would have liked to find out more about them.

All in all, though the couple was mismatched, I enjoyed the portions when Lord Linden finds himself falling in love and does some little touching things that pulled me to his side. Kate, with her rather shallow but downtrodden persona, also has some good points. There are some nasty villains which come to a violent end. The storyline kept me riveted just to see how it all would turn out. Rather different.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars disappointing heroine, March 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bad Baron's Daughter (Candlelight Regency #255) (Mass Market Paperback)

I started reading romantic fictions not long ago and heard a lot about the author(s), so I spent a small fortune on two second-hand Laura London books, Bad Baron's Daughter and Love's Stage. Bad Baron's Daughter is certainly a better book of the two. Most characters are well drawn, especially the hero, Lord Linden. He is a fascinating and complex character. To most people he is arrogant, cynical, callous, manipulative, worldly, he has his tender and caring side well hidden. He says the meanest and nastiest things! The most entertaining part of the book is his dialogues. The heroine, Katie, however is annoying in the extreme. She is seventeen but possesses the brain of a toddler. She is supposed to live a self-dependant and self-sufficient life most of her life, but she shows no intelligence or cleverness or slightest understanding of the world. The things she says and does would make a three-year old look sweet and cute but a seventeen-year dim-witted. She even manages to shoot herself by accident! The hero and heroine are so mismatched, I just don't believe that she can inspire love in him.

Bad Baron's Daughter and Love's Stage share a similar storyline - a naïve country girl gets into trouble in wicked London and is rescued by a handsome lord who has broken countless hearts in the past but somehow falls in love with her. Laura London did write some of the cleverest lines, but their type of sweet, cute, brainless heroines are certainly out of date.