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Title: Secrets of the Night by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0-451-21158-8 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Enjoyable love triangle with a difference!
Comment: This is the first Jo Beverley book I have read, and it's also more than half-way through a series. It's a credit to Beverley as a writer, though, that I didn't realise it was towards the end of the Malloren series until I read her author's notes at the end.
Rosamunde Overton is married to a man much older than she is, and who is not expected to live long; they have no children, and the heir is a member of a Puritanical sect whom no-one wants to inherit the land. So hints aplenty have been dropped: Rosa should get herself pregnant by whatever means possible, so that the baby can be passed off as her husband's. By pure chance, Lord Brand Malloren has been drugged and dumped in the middle of a bog; Rosa finds him, rescues him and, as payment, demands his sexual services. And what begins as pure sex turns into something more.
But Brand has no idea who his temporary mistress is, and Rosa is determined that they will never meet again. But she reckons without Malloren determination, and the resourcefulness of Brand's elder brother, Bey.
This is certainly an enjoyable book, though I wouldn't call it memorable; it has none of the haunting qualities of a Mary Jo Putney, or of Balogh at her best. I also felt that some descriptive passages were rushed: I had to read some of the action sequences several times to understand what had happened. Beverley also skips over elements of the story very quickly, losing the sense of suspense and failing to take advantage of opportunities for angst or romantic scenes. And I still don't know, for example, just how Brand managed to be at Wenscote in time to save Rosa from attack, since the last time we saw Brand he was headed somewhere else entirely. His presence was neither explained at the time nor in retrospect.
Having said that, I do intend to read the other Malloren books, and in particular - since I guessed from this book who Bey, Lord Rothgar's, own particular Nemesis would be - Bey's own story.
Rating: 4
Summary: En enjoyable read, everthing by Jo Beverley worthwhile
Comment: This book is the fourth in a series of five books set in Goergian England telling the romantic trials and tribulations of the siblings in a powerful family.
The hero and heroine in this story are not as temperamental as those in other stories, but this is in line with the personality of the main male character, being more phlematic than his other flamboyant siblings, and is not a draw back to the story. I did have a problem with the ease with which the heroine got the hero into bed (he just recovering from a serious poisoning!) but it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the book. I have read many other romances by other authors with VERY implausible plot devices. Jo Beverly has written in many styles depending on the era she is writing about. She ALWAYS tells an interesting, compelling story, literately written with no glaring grammatical errors or obvious anacronisms to wrench the reader from the fantasy. She doesn't write a "standard" historical romance (trite, cliched), but makes her characters believable people reacting realistically (usually) to their circumstances.
This book also gives the reader a glimpse of the plot line which will occur in the fifth book with the most powerful and flamboyant of the siblings, Beowulf Malloren, Marquess of Rothgar.
I have followed her writing since her first in the "Rogues" regency series and have been actively trying to find all her other books since then. She is almost impossible to find in used book stores, which tells you the popularity she enjoys with readers.
Happy reading!
Rating: 4
Summary: The steamiest Malloren Story Yet!
Comment: Book 4 of the Malloren Series by Jo Beverley is the steamiest yet!
Rosamunde Overton, married to an old gentleman unable to have children, must have an heir to rescue her state from the greedy hands of his zealot nephew. In order to do so she decides to request payment from Lord Brand Malloren who she rescues drugged on the road.
He complies willingly and the pages set fire! This book is sultry and seductive and has a distinctly earthly feel to it than other Jo Beverley's novels in this series. I enjoyed this book more than all the others, due to liking the character of Brand Malloren best, who is a good-natured and kind man, but doesn't hold back on loving his lady.
Rosamunde is scarred from an early childhood accident. To not show this scar and to also not reveal her identity she wears a mask throughout the seduction and Brand never knows who she is...until much later.
The story is very rich and Jo Beverley hits her high in her infamous Malloren Series with Book 4. This is the one book in the Malloren series still out of print. It should be reissued soon. Until then your local library or a used bookstore should have it. Warning though, Jo Beverley's books are collectibles so buying it used you could pay a steep price.
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Title: Something Wicked by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0451407806 Publisher: Topaz Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Devilish by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0451199979 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Tempting Fortune by Jo Beverley ISBN: 082177347X Publisher: Zebra Books (Mass Market) Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Winter Fire by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0451210654 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0451206444 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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