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Title: Tempting Fortune by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0-8217-7347-X Publisher: Zebra Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not up to par with the series....
Comment: This is the 2nd book in JB's 'Malloren Series'; its my 3rd since I've read them out of order. It would really be best to read 'My Lady Notorious' first due to a lot of references in this book to things that happened in the first one. Now, all of that being said, I was really disappointed in this book. I just loved 'My Lady Notorious' & 'Secrets of the Night'.... they had both heros & heroines that I could really enjoy. Even though I didn't start out liking Chasity Ware from the first one, her personality was totally explained, understandable, & made me come to really respect her. Not so with Portia in this book.
I can't, for the life of me, figure out why Bryght fell in love with her. She was rude, unappreciative & very insulting through the entire book - right down to the page when she admitted she loved him & couldn't live without him (at the very end).
Although it was attempted to explain why she acted like she did, I didn't go for it. Without telling the story, she made sacrifices for a brother that was worthless & blamed Bryght - however, it was only thru his actions that her life wasn't REALLY horrible!
I like a book that at least has some affection and/or fun between the hero & heroine - that at least have a reason for falling in love. Although Bryght was an excellent hero, Portia ruined this one for me. Bryght's the reason this one got the 3rd star! lol
Rating: 2
Summary: More like tumultous and unfortunate
Comment: Bryght has as much depth as a puddle, everyone hates the Mallorens so much there are enemies popping out all over the place, the fascinating Rothgar we first met in My Lady Notorious is about as excting as a wooden Indian, and theere is no sensuality in this book.
All Portia does is whine, complain, mistrust Bryght, and God only knows why he puts up with her. The part in the brothel is totally gratuitous and there is nothing romantic about this book because they never realy fall in love.
Bryght himself tells her several hundred pages into the book that they never talk. How true-they are hardly ever in the same room together, both tearing off in different directions, him trying to save her and her getting involved in worse and worse disasters.
Trying to seduce his enemy and her old childhood friend are among the dumbest and most offensive things she does even after he has told her he loves her and that she should try to trust him. All the people who hate him and her are the ones she does trust.
She is supposed to be named after the woman in Merchant of Venice who is able to discern truth from lies, and dispense justice. She is totally feeble at both, and as blind as a bat to herself and others. A frantic book with little humor and even less love. I will take Bryght any day, but he deserves a lot better than Portia. No one would ever want to identify with such a priggish fool.
The endless warnings against gambling and descriptions of the games of chance and canals, and her afterword, show that the author really let her research show for all to see, and got way to carried away in her message to make us care about any of the characters. A feeble volume in this increasingly lacklustre series. Where is the sizzle?
Rating: 3
Summary: tempting fortune? more like tempting annoyance!
Comment: For the life of me, I cannot understand why Bryght is with Portia. She's has a nasty habbit of running away (three times in the book!), she's rude to him, and she's extremely hot-headed! The herorine in this book really annoyed me. It took me two weeks to finish off this novel because I was too frustrated with her. Don't get me wrong, the storyline was interesting enough, but there were times when I just wanted to chuck the book at the wall. Maybe the next book in this series is better...
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Title: Something Wicked by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0451407806 Publisher: Topaz Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Devilish by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0451199979 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 10 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0451206444 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Secrets of the Night by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0451211588 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: An Arranged Marriage by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0821764012 Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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