19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Unbelievable--and not in a good way!, September 15, 2007
This review is from: When Dashing Met Danger (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm definitely in the minority here but I thought this book was readable, after all I did finish it, but it is too stupid for words. First of all, the hero, an Earl mind you, is the heroine's brother-in-law. (His brother is married to her sister.) So he is in the family. Yet he has sex with her, ruins her, all without intending to marry her. Even when other family members find out he says baldly that he's not marrying her. They go off and have their big adventure, danger, intrique, death, and mayhem, have more sex (in which he could have impregnated her as he never took any precautions) and at the end of all that he STILL tells her to go back and marry this other creep she was engaged to, doesn't like, and won't possibly be happy with. (And what was she to tell HIM on their wedding night? Oops, I seem to have lost my virginity some where along the way, you don't mind do you?.) The heroine even tearfully tells the hero she loves him. Too bad, I don't want you, go marry the other guy. As if the other guy would even have her, ruined and all. But that is never mentioned. Stupid.
What a guy right? She's even worse. I actually didn't care if her heart was broken because she was just so irritating. She never did what she was told when they were in danger and usually made things worse. She got snippy and righteous at the most inopportune times. But hey, she could ride a horse for 24 hours straight without breaks. TWICE. As if that could really happen.
She goes home, doesn't marry the other guy, and then pines away from June until the next APRIL. He's gone that long and is back in England for six weeks before finding out she didn't marry the other guy. He just assumed she did what HE told her to do so didn't even bother to check if she was ok, happy, pregnant, nothing.
I can't even talk about this stupid book anymore, it's just too ridiculous!
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
When Adventure Met Passion, May 10, 2005
This review is from: When Dashing Met Danger (Mass Market Paperback)
Alex Scarston, Earl of Selbourne, would rather be back in France, working the front lines of the war as an "intelligence specialist," than stuck in the trappings of London society. Especially when Lucia-pronounced-in-the-Italian-way Dashing stumbles into his path. He hasn't seen his sister-in-law since his brother's marriage five years ago, but the precocious fourteen-year-old he knew has grown into a twenty-year-old temptress. And those dark blue eyes of hers have only grown more alluring. He knows he should stay as far away from her as possible, but when her father asks for his help in locating her missing twin brother he can't convince her to stay out of the way.
Lucia is not about to be left out of the hunt for her brother, no matter where it leads--no matter the scandal she might bring to her father's political aspirations. Even if she winds up talking to women of questionable reputation, climbing into a gentleman's downstairs window in the middle of the night, and trussed up on a fast ship to France. And in Alex's bed. When she does--all of the above--she's determined to follow through. But how can she choose between a safe, scandal-free life with an uninspiring fiancé who can further her father's career and a risky proposition with an "intelligence specialist"--okay, a spy--who causes more waves than he quells? Especially when he's vowed never to tie himself down with romantic entanglements.
When Dashing Met Danger is a thrilling adventure laden with sexual tension from the very first scene, guaranteed to have you up all night asking: Will Lucia find her brother? Will she end the lackluster engagement? And, will she convince Alex that sometimes the most foolish thing of all is letting love slip away?
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
delightful...., May 29, 2005
This review is from: When Dashing Met Danger (Mass Market Paperback)
Regencies have been getting ho-hum of late so this book by galen was a wonderful surprise. The plot was fairly unique.....the characters were full of life........and the dialogue was witty
and endearing. There was more than a fair amount of physical adventure not common to a regency. It's not pulitzer prize stuff but it is a really enjoyable and easy read. Great job SG. Best wishes for continued successes......
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