The Devil's Delilah [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Loretta Lynda Chase (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr (May 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896219704
• ISBN-13: 978-0896219700
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,420,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Loretta Chase holds a B.A. from Clark University, where she majored in English and minored unofficially in visual art. Her past lives include clerical, administrative, and part-time teaching at Clark and a Dickensian six-month experience as a meter maid. In the course of moonlighting as a corporate video scriptwriter, she fell under the spell of a producer who lured her into writing novels... and marrying him. The union has resulted in more than a dozen books and a number of awards, including the Romance Writers of America's RITA® Award.

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Start, February 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Devil's Delilah (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one of her earlier books 1989-90. Delilah's father is going to write his memoirs. She is trying to get married and her father is an"infamous rake". Delilah is trying to stop the publication of the book till after she is married. The story starts out entertaining but gets bogged down about two-thirds through. OK, why would you read this book, let alone buy it? The same reason I did--you like this author and want to read her earlier stuff. As you read it you can she how the author is developing the style she uses later in her other books.
There's no sex other than kissing and some fondling. I like Lord of Scoundrels, the Last Hellion, and Captives of the Night in that order, I didn't like Lion's Daughter. Hope this helps.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Witty and charming, but not her best, September 12, 2006

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M. Ottati "Rosario's Reading Journal (http://... (Liverpool, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devil's Delilah (Mass Market Paperback)

This one was better than most of her other Trads that I've read, and very good, but nowhere near as great as single titles like Lord of Scoundrels, Lord Perfect or Mr. Impossible, to mention just three. Still, I liked it enough for 4 stars.

Jack Langdon and Delilah Desmond meet at an inn, when Jack finds Delilah holding his best friend's father at gunpoint. Jack jumps to exactly the wrong conclusion and tries to interfere, only to find out later, to his chagrin, that Delilah is no criminal, but the daughter of a well-known former rake, and that she's not trying to rob the Earl of Streetham, but defending herself against him (the lovely man had assumed she was a maid, and thus fair game).

Delilah is worried, very worried. All her chances of making a good, respectable marriage (thus providing for security for herself and her parents), are hanging in the balance, because her father has written his memoirs, and it's obvious that if they were published, the scandal would be enormous. To make things worse, he's actually gone and offered them to a publisher, and now the man is chasing them, alternating between trying to convince her father to hand the manuscript over and trying to steal it.

Realizing that Jack is a really nice guy, Delilah asks for his help with hiding the manuscript. At the same time, the Earl of Streetham, who has an interest both in making money from the manuscript and in getting some revenge on Devil Desmond, enlists his son, Jack's friend to help him. And so starts a huge farce, in which people cross and double-cross each other, steal, hide, bury, unbury and rewrite the manuscript and, last, but not least, fall in love.

What I loved:

- Jack: I loved this absent-minded bookworm of a hero, who finds himself captivated by this young woman who couldn't be more unlike him if she tried. And the way he falls for her, despite his best efforts not to, is vintage Loretta Chase. It reminded me a little bit of Benedict's reactions to Bathsheba in Lord Perfect.

- Delilah's father, Devil: I just loved that the absent-minded bookworm was the love interest, while the dangerous, feared rogue was the heroine's father. Devil's reactions to some of Delilah and Jack's more clumsy attempts at romance were hilarious.

- The writing: Chase is a genious at smart and witty writing, and her dialogue sparkles.

What I didn't much care for:

- The whole to-do about that cursed manuscript: So and so has it, so and so hides it, so and so is pressured by yet another so-and-so to steal it, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam. After a while, I didn't know (or care) who had it and where, and wanted nothing more than for Chase to forget about it and concentrate on Jack and Delilah.

Of course, the good parts were many more than the annoying one, and I quite enjoyed TDD.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Marvelous!, March 28, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Devil's Delilah (Mass Market Paperback)

I've read all of Loretta Chase's novels, and this (along with Lord of Scoundrels) has to be my favorite. The hero is not a rake or a rogue, which is a nice change, although he still manages to be quite heroic and sexy. I adore him almost as much as Delilah does. And Delilah is a delight, from beginning to end.

And then there are her fascinating parents--why, oh why, doesn't Chase write a novel about THEM?

This is one of those wonderful, rare stories where you turn the last page feeling completely satisfied, and yet wanting more. The kind of story where you are absolutely certain that these two different yet ideally suited people really will live happily ever after and have a great deal of fun doing it.