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Title: To Tempt a Bride by Edith Layton ISBN: 0-06-050218-5 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: I don¿t get the title . . . he's the one needed "tempting"
Comment: Like other reviewers I found this story rather tepid, less than riveting and the secondary characters more intriguing than the leads. This is my second book by this author (predecessor TO WED A STRANGER being my first) and I've decided that Edith Layton is simply not an author that I will seek out again.
Camille Croft is a hearty, sturdy yet pretty-in-her-own-way country girl who is enjoying her first Season in London. While she's become moderately popular among London's young men, she has eyes for only one. Eric Ford, one of her brother Miles' best friends. A former soldier, he's so handsome and masculine and Camille adores him but tries (often unsuccessfully) not to show it. She feels she is no match for all the true beauties in Society and that Eric could have his pick of any one of them. Why would he want her? But his steadfast and warm friendship gives her hope for more.
For his part, Eric is quite taken with Camille, but his continuing bouts with malaria and his being ten years her senior keep him from acting on his attraction (though men married much younger women routinely in those days, so I don't get the big deal on that issue). And when stranger Nell Baynes is added to the mix things become even more confused.
Is Nell the damsel in distress that she appears? Against her family's wishes, the kind hearted Camille takes Nell under her wing, but soon wonders if it is to her own detriment when it seems Nell may have her eye on Eric. And since Nell is so beautiful, how could he resist? Has Camille unknowingly sabotaged her own happiness in being kind to a stranger - one who may well not be what she seems?
This was an okay story and Camille and Eric are appealing characters, but the romance between them seemed more fond friendship than passionate attachment. As others have pointed out, the secondary characters (Nell and her cousin Mr. Bartlett) were often more intriguing that then leads and the pace was on the slow side. Many reviews have used the word "tepid" to describe this story and that sounds about right to me.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Sunday Afternoon Read
Comment: Edith Layton continues to write fun and well developed characters for her romance stories. I again enjoyed her book immensely. Her stories are the traditional romance with a bit of danger thrown in to keep the reader interested.
Camille knows the first time she sees her good friends older brother that this is the man she desires. But, he seems content to just be her protector while attending the balls of the ton. But, is this how he really feels? About the time that they figure out what they both want she is kidnapped. Will he be able to find her? Well of course it is a romance story, but the real story is how that takes place along the way.
If you want a fun lighthearted romance story that is well written this one is for you.
Rating: 2
Summary: Padded Rehash of False Angel
Comment: As an avid fan of Layton's for years, I was really looking forward to this novel but it was a disappointment. It was a longer and less interesting version of False Angel, an earlier novel which I can wholeheartedly recommend.
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Title: Slightly Sinful by MARY BALOGH ISBN: 0440236606 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Winter Fire by Jo Beverley ISBN: 0451210654 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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: Slightly Tempted by MARY BALOGH ISBN: 0440241065 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Devil Takes a Bride by GAELEN FOLEY ISBN: 0804119759 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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