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Title: It Takes a Hero by Elizabeth Boyle ISBN: 0-06-054930-0 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: 3 1/2 stars: good story marred a little by prose style
Comment: Since returning from the Napoleonic wars, Rafe Danvers has made a living solving problems for the rich and titled. Currently, he's trying to solve the murder of a rich nabob. That is until the rich and powerful Countess of Tottley offers to give him the deeds to a small estate if he would take on a task for her. Lady Tottley wants Rafe to find the authour of the popular Miss Darby adventures, and persuade her to stop writing completely. Apparently in the latest Miss Darby installment, Miss Darby's faithful swain dies in battle, prompting the heroine to forswear marriage forever. Unfortunately, Miss Darby's ardent fans, the impressionable young society misses, have all decided to follow suit and have taken an oath not marry. Faced with the prospect of having their unmarried daughters on their hands forever, the ladies of the ton are at their wit's end, and hence the drastic step of hiring Rafe. Less than thrilled by his latest assignment, but wanting the prize, Rafe agrees. The trail leads him to Bramley Hollow in Kent and to the incredibly vexatious, sharp-tongued and engaging Miss Rebecca Tate. Rafe may not be completely sure as to whether or not Rebecca is the elusive authour of the Miss Darby novels, but he's rather enjoying their verbal sparring matches. That is until a few sinister incidents makes him realize that Rebecca is in danger and at the heart of a much bigger mystery...
Once you through the rather florid prose style, "Once a Hero" turned out to be a very entertaining read. The story is a good and intriguing one and Rafe and Rebecca were both likable and engaging characters. As for the romantic relationship that develops between Rafe and Rebecca, it was vibrant, exciting and fairly brimming with sexual tension. Some readers, however, may find Rebecca's desire to find and keep the stolen ruby very distasteful, but, unfortunately, her desire to find and sell the ruby, and her belief that the ruby is rightfully her's because her father had figured out where to steal it from, was in keeping with the times. My advice, if you're looking for a good and entertaining read, is to overlook the overblown prose style and the heroine's less upright tendencies and concentrate on the fast paced and exciting adventure at hand.
Rating: 2
Summary: flawed, but diverting
Comment: I wanted to like this book. I did like it, more-or-less. It wasn't the most intense or riveting romance I've ever read, but as a lightweight diversion, it worked. If you're looking for depth and soul-wrenching drama, look elsewhere--this is more of a light-hearted romp.
My problem with this book--and for someone who is as politically incorrect as I am, this is significant--was the questionable ethics/morality/lack of respect for other cultures. I speak specifically of the "McGuffin"--the stolen ruby that everyone is after.
Let me make sure I understand this. The heroine's father broke into a sacred religious site, removed the ruby, was relieved of the ruby, and now the heroine wants to find the stolen goods and sell them. Was it just me, or do other people have a hard time respecting someone who thinks because she's stolen an item that it's hers now? I realize that in the time we're talking about (19th c.) that the British were not known for their enlightened views of Indian culture, and considered these people beneath them, but it's been my experience in the romance novel genre that usually our heroes/heroines are ahead of their time in their politically-correct thinking (I suppose so that the reader can more easily relate to them). At any rate, I was appalled at her lack of understanding that "her little nest egg" was not, in fact, hers. She had no right to do anything but return it to its home, but she resisted with all her might.
This bothered me greatly, so much so that it spoiled my enjoyment of the rest of the book. You have been warned.
Rating: 1
Summary: Like reading Barry Lyndon
Comment: This book just goes on and on and on, and not in that wonderful "I hope it never ends" way. Once I pick up a romance, I usually can't put it down. I devour it in one setting, even if that means I'm up all night. It took me a week to get through this thing, and I only managed it because I FORCED myself to finish (due to the great review it got at Romantic Times--what book did they read?). The characters should have been engaging. The story should have been riveting. The hero should have been sexy. Sadly, they weren't, it wasn't, and he wasn't.
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Title: England's Perfect Hero by Suzanne Enoch ISBN: 0060543132 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Affair Most Wicked, An by Julianne MacLean ISBN: 0060527056 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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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: Your Wicked Ways by Eloisa James ISBN: 0060560789 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Deal With the Devil by Liz Carlyle ISBN: 0743470036 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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