His Lady Mistress (Harlequin Historical Series) [Mass Market Paperback]

Elizabeth Rolls (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Compelling, compassionate . . . filled with emotional intensity, Rolls' latest is a sexually charged novel that also will tug at your heart. -- Romantic Times, October 2005

Product Description

Short-listed for 2006 Romance Writers of Australia's Romantic Book of the Year Award

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373293720
• ISBN-13: 978-0373293728
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #262,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars well-written, September 17, 2009

By	Shelba - See all my reviews

This review is from: His Lady Mistress (Kindle Edition)

The death of her father left, Verity Scott, in a state of distraught...but in these trying times she befriended a gentlemanly soldier named Max...and her father just happened to be his commanding officer. Five years later, Verity finds herself working as a handmaiden and Max mysteriously reenters her life. She discovers that he is the Lord of Bakehurst...but realizes that Max does not remember her...and sees her as a lowly maid. Yet, it is the poor way she is being treated that drives Max into her arms. When Max finally does realize who she is, he insists that they get married. The story goes back and forth like this as Max looks to embrace her then decides to push her away. Will they get married or will their passion for each other drive them apart? This was a very well-written historical romance....I would also highly recommend JoAnna Wylde's novel Price of Freedom: Price of Freedom another incredibly well-written book.

35 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Spoiler alert!!!!!!, September 12, 2009

By	K. May (Brookwood, Alabama) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: His Lady Mistress (Kindle Edition)

So, I gave this book 4 stars mostly on the merit that it was free and it entertained me for a few hours.

I'm new to the romance genre so, a few things bothered me.

-Couldn't this whole book have been a lot more simple if these two adults could just have a sit down conversation? The whole book was just one big failure to communicate!

-Wouldn't it be pretty difficult for the Faringdons to just pretend that Verity died and then just invent a person for her to be and try to hide her all the time? Wouldn't it have been easier just to kill her?

-I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty sure the fact that Verity ate very little in those first two months, got socked in the gut by a cricket ball, and whatever aerial acrobatics she had to do while being persued by Godfrey at the end equals braindamage for that kid or a miscarriage. It all just seemed a little unlikely to me...

Also, why did they have to sock homegirl in the stomach with the cricket ball...It didn't develop the story further, so couldn't the author just had the thing land at her feet?

38 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An entirely unlikable group of characters, September 12, 2009

By	C. Hoppie "Dodecahedron" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: His Lady Mistress (Harlequin Historical Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

I don't know who I hate worse, myself for having read this book, or the characters contained within it.

The hero (and I really wish I didn't have to use that word to describe him) is a self-absorbed, arrogant, insensitive jackass, and those are his redeeming qualities. If this story were set in modern times I might suspect he would be diagnosed as a sociopath. How the heroine (who quite frankly seems to be two sandwiches short a picnic herself) puts up with him and loves him is hard to fathom. Her few sparks of courage should not be misinterpreted as a sign that she will grow a backbone.

There were far too many misunderstandings to be believable and his realization of love would have come "too little, too late" to make any difference to any woman with an ounce of self worth. Although it does work here because the heroine does not have an iota of self worth within her delicate psyche. They are the perfect match made in H E L L.

I have to admit the author does know how to set a scene and write vivid descriptions, she falls short in creating sympathetic characters. Unfortunately I would not read another of her novels to find out otherwise.