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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfection,
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This review is from: Your Scandalous Ways (Mass Market Paperback)
Loretta Chase is one of my favorite authors and I'm convinced that her Lord of Scoundrels is the best romance ever written. But this one comes close to that lofty ideal.
After a scandalous divorce, Francesca Bonnard has remade herself into a wealthy and highly sought after courtesean. But she is playing a dangerous game with her ex-husband that will have deadly consequences. James Cordier, a younger son of the Earl of Westwood and working one last assignment for the government, is longing to go back to England and finally lead a normal life and find a normal, innocent wife. All their expectations are about to be shattered. James and Francesca are two of my all time favorite characters. The banter between them is delicious and it's so refreshing to have a hero and heroine who do not conform to the typical romance standards, but who, at the same time, are throughly engaging. There's just enough of the secondary characters to give the story some light hearted moments and some gravity, while not taking anything away from the real story. If you are looking for something out of the ordinary and very well written go out and get Your Scandalous Ways.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Can Loretta Chase write an uninteresting book?,
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This review is from: Your Scandalous Ways (Mass Market Paperback)
i will answer my own question and say, in this instance, yes she can. My first reaction on reading the blurb, was oh boy, let's play spies and hookers again -- it seems a cliche by now to investigate the intimate sexual lives of men and women by glamorizing the life of a prostitute. Of course, so that ordinary non-whores can identify with her, she can't be someone from the lower classes who was born into this life, is uneducated and has never been exposed to any other options - so our heroine is the divorced and disgraced wife of an English lord. This was my first major disappointment with this book; I wanted to know more about the marriage that landed her in Venice as the city's most sought after working girl, but this aspect of the book was quite sketchy.
On the plus side, the book is set in regency Venice, which is a new locale, and Chase is an excellent prose stylist, so it wasn't painful to read. On the minus side, the plot is completely routine, the subsidiary characters seem as shadowy as background images on a TV screen, and it just wasn't very new or interesting or credible. I found myself forcing myself not to skip towards the end. To anyone wanting to try Chase for the first time, I'd say give this one a pass and read the Carsington family series which begins with Miss Wonderful.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Read this in one go,
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This review is from: Your Scandalous Ways (Mass Market Paperback)
I can see there are mixed feelings about this book, but I have to say that I really enjoyed it. I thought it had suspense, humour and romance, and I really liked the idea of the two damaged people coming together. I would have liked to have a little more angst, which would have tipped it over into 5 stars. And I would have liked Francesca to have a little more angry when she found out about James' betrayal. But over, I would recommend this book.
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