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Title: A Gentleman's Honor by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0-06-000207-7 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stephanie Laurens Is Back
Comment: "A Gentleman's Honor" is the 2nd Book in the Bastion Series. Though I enjoyed the 1st book in the series, A LADY CHOOSEN there was alot of background needed to get the reader up to speed. I feel with the second book, this book, that SL was able to focus on the story line and the hero and heroine more.
As always Alicia is a strong and independent SL Heroine and is not likely to let our hero Tony come in and just save the day, not with out her knowing what is going on. We get to know more of the members of the Bastion club, sort of wetting our appitites for the books to come.
SL also brings back characters from her Cynster series, nice to see characters we love before they are married, as well as the hero and heroine from her book "Captain Jacks Woman" Though its nice if you have read CJW it is not nessesary to enjoy "A Gentleman Honor." If you like SL you will more then like enjoy this book too.
Rating: 3
Summary: Typical Laurens novel but with an excellent hero!
Comment: Stephanie Laurens writes good stories with steamy love scenes that can go on for pages and heros to die for. Anthony (Tony) Blake is one of them. He is comparable to a Cynster hero, which if you are a fan of Laurens, you know what he is about. He is handsome, trustworthy, and very possesive of the heroine who is bound to become his mate in every sense.
Alicia is the heroine. She pretends to be a widow so her younger sister can have a season in the Ton and find a good husband. This facade almost becomes known when a so-called gentleman, who knows her secret, blackmails her into marrying him. But soon he is found dead and Tony gets involved in the case.
Some readers think Laurens has lost her strive up to this book because the scenarios and characters are becoming too much alike. Perhaps the same can be said for Alicia, but with Tony, Laurens has written a complex and seductive individual.
The mystery and suspense is so-so but the overall enjoyment of the book is watching Tony take control of the situation and of course the intimate scenes between him and Alicia. Sometimes there are way too many to count but most readers will enjoy them and need an ice cube when done reading.
If you are into a sensual story with a great hero, check this one out. Hopefully Laurens will keep writing better characters and move away from murder and mystery that she always sticks to.
By: Kate Garrabrant... [email protected]
Rating: 3
Summary: uninspired and muzzled by the lovers' silence
Comment: Occasionally, as in The Rake's Vow, Laurens doesn't disappoint, so I decided to give this romance a shot. It's mostly ho-hum, despite a promising beginning, because the romantic interchanges between Alicia and Tony are so sexually charged and yet so mute. This becomes quite hard to swallow after a while (once you've had sex, you should have something to say about it!).. Their silence also diminishes the sexual tension by a huge degree. That's because it's the sexy dialogue, especially that we read between the lines, that creates fine romantic tension. When they talk, it's always about business, essentially a boring paper trail, or she is thanking him, which is both tedious and offensive after a while. Her move into his house is not believable, either, and her belief that he (not she!) would suffer from this scandalous behavior is even less credible. I find Alicia's languid nature tepid and aggravating, though Tony does retain some male charisma.
Incidentally, Laurens has to stop writing "girding his/her loins," an expression that makes me cringe. The writer from England has a point.
Let's hope for better--she's got great sex scenes, if she lets her characters act like live beings and talk, and talk so we can hear what they are actually saying. Lover's French heard in narrative summary is no fun. If Tony's not going to speak French, which he speaks fluently, in the bedroom, make his nationality German or plain old English!
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Title: The Lady Chosen by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0060002069 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Married to the Viscount by Sabrina Jeffries ISBN: 0060092149 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Perfect Lover by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0060505710 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Ideal Bride by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0060505737 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Slightly Tempted by MARY BALOGH ISBN: 0440241065 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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