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5.0 out of 5 stars
another Mason must, December 9, 2007
This review is from: The Price of Pleasure (Leisure Historical Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
I liked the book is set in France during the late 1700s. You don't see to many of those in the past five years.
The French prison, Devil's Chateau, is a cesspit where no one comes out alive. So when Reed Harwood is to tossed into a cell for spying, he fears will die there, as there will be no one to help him. He is surprised when "The Black Widow" buys his Freedom. Rumors have reached him the Black Widow buys men for her sex slave, and they mysteriously vanish when she is through with them. Only Reed is confronted with a kind woman, Fleur, and she seems totally at odds with her "black widow" persona. To his surprise, she never tries to make any sexual demands, and soon sets him on his way back to England.
Upon his return, he learns his brother has died and he is now the earl, but he despite all, he cannot forget the woman who saved him. Risking his life, he goes back to France to find Fleur, and defying all, he take Fleur back home as his wife. However, danger follows them back to England.
I loved the fresh setting, not done much of late, and the fact both hero and heroine were willing to die to save the over. Wonderful Romance!
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very interesting plot line and characters, but lacked heat and passion, December 9, 2007
This review is from: The Price of Pleasure (Leisure Historical Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
What I liked...The plot was very interesting, better than many books I've read recently. The heroine is a spy known as a black widow who has helped several men escapes the terrible prisons of France. She rescues our hero, and a long and believable 'get to know you before sex' relationship evolves. Eventually the story takes us back to England, where they try to find who is a traiter and trying to kill them.
What I didn't like... The bad guy was obvious, which is OK, but it was upsetting that our smart hero was clueless in guessing who was trying to kill him. I wanted to scream "Come on, duh!" It was the only part of the plot that had a flaw. Secondly, the sex scenes were a bit cold and just copies of each other. There must have been a good 8-10 sex scenes, but they were exactly the same each time. Nothing really spicy or flirty or risky ever happens in bed, just mechanical sex (mostly anyway). I'd rather one really good passionate sex scene than a handful of boring ones.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Exciting Start... doesn't quite pan out, April 29, 2008
This review is from: The Price of Pleasure (Leisure Historical Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
This starts out well. Reed Harwood speaks flawless French and as a younger brother of a peer and interested in an exciting life, he's working as an English agent in Revolutionary France. Unfortunately, he'd been betrayed by someone who knew who he was and finds himself beaten and near death, imprisoned in the remote Devil's Chateau. Enter the mysterious Black Widow--a woman who bribes the guards to let her take a dying prisoner for her own sick whims. Her choice this time is Reed.
Unfortunately, any cool spying and Scarlet Pimpernel-ish adventures do not ensue after the exciting escape(s) from France. The search for the person who betrayed Reed is not so interesting at all. And the question of who is still trying to kill him is so horribly obvious that it made me annoyed that the couple were too busy not thinking with the right parts of their anatomy, even though I knew I should be just rolling with all the sex scenes. The girl had more of a clue... until she falls for the oldest trick in the book. Made me wonder if both of them speaking perfect French was their ONLY qualification for becoming an agent. *sigh*
Anyway, if you're someone who doesn't care about plots, this book will be perfectly fine, I'm sure. Sadly, I'm more of a fan of a decent plot and wanting characters who don't annoy me too much with their poor decisions and single-minded focus on getting into bed, so I was not as much in charity with this book as I had hoped.
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