A Daughter's Destiny (Shadow of the Bastille) [Paperback]

Jo Ann Ferguson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Zebra (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821766643
• ISBN-13: 978-0821766644
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,757,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Daughter's Destiny, August 15, 2000

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This review is from: A Daughter's Destiny (Shadow of the Bastille) (Paperback)

Evan Somerset enters Brienne LeClerc's life offering money for an old vase. She won't sell it to him. Then two men come to her family's restaurant and beat her when she wouldn't give them the vase. She never would have realized it was worth anything to anyone but her mother... but someone is desperate to get it, and her along with it. Evan continues to hang around, but Brienne does not trust him. Brienne has difficulty with what Evan tells her about her past. He tells her that her grandmother and mother are not related to her at all, and that she is actually a duchess. But growing danger makes her consider that he may be right. Nothing is ever quite as it seems, and the biggest danger is yet to come.... This is a frying-pan-into-the-fire adventure. It was fun to watch the reckless heroine continually get rescued by Evan.

1.0 out of 5 stars inaccuracy laden........, January 9, 2009

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This review is from: A Daughter's Destiny (Shadow of the Bastille) (Paperback)

I don't get these authors who try to write Historical Romance but completely ignore every sensibility and convention of the era that the book is set in.

For example, this is set in Regency England, but the hero, a gentleman, touched and kissed the heroine within the first five minutes of meeting her! Several times, and the hero talked to the heroine as if she was a loose woman, when she was obviously a gentlewoman.

Here's a crazy idea-if you want your characters to act this way-set your book in modern times!

To be fair-I have read another book by this author that I enjoyed-A Phantom Affair, but Daughter's Destiny is the second book by her that was not good, so I would definitely categorize her as a "hit or miss" author.

not recommend-no stars!