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Title: A Rake's Vow by Stephanie Laurens, Simon Prebble ISBN: 0-7887-9605-4 Publisher: Recorded Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette List Price(USD): $88.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (39 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I truly liked it.....
Comment: Now I read this book first. I couldn't find "Devil's Bride" so I started this book first (and now moving back to the 1st book in the series). Now having said that I liked this book. I can not compare this book to her first in the Bar series, but on the whole it was a good read. I'm in the understanding that a Cynster does drop their rake, rouge (what have you) character when the have met the women they want to marry. This seemed perfectly logical to me. And I have to agree with another reviewer who said that Patience lacked in depth of character. But she was still very likable.
Enough babbling ... on the whole the book was great. The love scences where fabulous. There where a couple of times I wanted to smack both Vane and Patience up side they head for being so blind to the obvious... but then again I guess that's what made them seem more real and human. If you're read the first book go ahead and read the second ... and I'll go back and read the first. ; )
Rating: 2
Summary: Same plot as Devil¿s Bride...
Comment: Vane Cynster, Devil's cousin and closest friend, has his turn at meeting his match in this book. An enforced stay at his godmother's house brings him into contact with her niece, Patience Debbington, and a mystery: who is the magpie thief stealing all and sundry, and who is the Spectre who appears at night, in shadow, and appears to haunt the place? The primary suspect is Patience's young brother Gerrard, but Vane doesn't believe that for an instant. His godmother begs him to stay and sort it out, and as he is already very intrigued by Patience he agrees.
Patience is alarmed by Vane and does her best to avoid him; she's also worried about the effect he's having on Gerrard. ...
The plot of this book follows exactly the same direction as Devil's Bride. Vane - determined not to marry - encounters a woman and knows that he's met his fate. He wants to marry her. He proposes; she refuses him. He determines to persuade her through sensuality and at the same time find out why she won't marry him. And in the background there is a (not very interesting and pretty transparent) mystery plot - again, I'd worked out who was behind it pretty early on; ... Maybe Laurens wanted him to be seen as an idiot?
I found Vane's approach to Patience unconvincing; in one scene - when he'd just met her - he was aware that she had the power to attract him in a way no woman had before. And he was determined to resist that: he didn't *want* to marry. And yet barely a half-dozen pages later, with nothing having happened in the meantime, he was suddenly reconciled to his fate and determined to marry her. ...
And Patience's antipathy to Vane in the beginning was simply not explained until some way in the book. I can accept her stereotyping him as a certain type of man - and not being told what she meant by an 'elegant gentleman' until almost halfway through the book did not help! - but we need to know *what* stereotype she's using, and why it bothers her. That took some time to convey.
Again, a lot of detailed sex scenes, which is fine if you like that kind of thing; they're too numerous and technical - as well as lengthy - for my preference. I prefer my lovemaking scenes to focus on the emotions rather than descriptions of sex organs. Of course the extent and locations of Vane and Patience's amorous encounters are all wrong for the period, and I'm not sure why Laurens seems to assume that engaged, or near-engaged, couples of the - quite Puritanic, remember! - Regency period would naturally have sex. This has come across in three of her books now; her heroes seem to make an automatic assumption that an engagement means free sex. ...
I do have the rest of the Cynster series and will keep reading - Laurens has a readable style, even if I do skim some scenes - but I do hope that she varies her plots for later books.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not as good as Devil's Bride
Comment: Except for her hard-to-understand aversion to men like Vane, Patience is a good if slightly ordinary heroine. We eventually understand her reasoning, but it takes time to sympathize. Vane is one of those characters you really want to like, a lot, but Laurens never gives him his due. To me, Vane is never as clearly realized as the rest of the Cynsters.
I, however, found it refreshing (having read this series out of order) to have the hero almost immediately realize that this was the woman he wanted to marry and she's the one who needs convincing. The mystery plot was not particularly good; honestly, why could no one figure out the sand any earlier? Geez.
But Laurens writes well, and this book is enjoyable, although certainly not the best of the series. I think Vane has been cheated; it's almost as though the author never really understood him. His handling of Patience's brother Gerrard was one of the most insightful elements. Read it as part of the series, but it's hardly the best. Devil's and Scandal's stories are much better.
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Title: All About Love (Cynster Novels) by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0380812010 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: All About Passion (Cynster Novels) by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0380812029 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: On a Wicked Dawn (Cynster Novels) by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0060002050 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: On a Wild Night (Cynster Novels) by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0380812037 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Promise in a Kiss by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0061031755 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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