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Title: The Pretender : The Liar's Club by Celeste Bradley ISBN: 0-312-98485-5 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 16 June, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: an excellent beginning to a brilliant new series
Comment: I've just finished "The Pretender" & "The Impostor" (the first two books in Celeste Bradley's The Liar's Club series), and all I can say that Regency romance readers are in for a treat! Finally, we readers are being treated as intelligent people with taste and discrimination. No heroes that make your hands itch for a frying pan, no foolish yet feisty heroines, and no storylines that beggar belief! Instead, we have an interesting and compelling storyline, revolving around a hero who deserves the appellation of 'hero' and a heroine who's intelligent, determined and brave.
Miss Agatha Cunnington is in a pickle. Her brother, James, is missing and her greedy neighbour (who also happens to be the executor to her dead father's will) is trying to pressure her into marrying his repulsive son. So, Agatha escapes to London in order to find James. Disguising herself as a married woman (Mrs. Agatha Applequist), Agatha hopes to infiltrate society in order to find the "Griffin," a master spy, whom she suspects knows what has become of James. But her plan hits a snag when because of the suspicions of one particular society matron, she must produce Mr. Applequist and quickly. Fortunately for her, Fate steps in in the shape of a chimney-sweep, Simon Rains. Tall and sinfully handsome, Agatha is sure that if she can pass Simon off as Mr. Applequist, all her troubles will be over. But can she persuade the rough cockney chimney-sweep to cooperate with her plans?
Someone is killing off the members of the Liar's Club (a group of rogues and thieves who work as intelligence gatherers for the Crown). And Simon Montague Raines is sure that it is James Cunnington. James has since disappeared, and Simon is sure that Mrs. Applequist (whom he assumes is James's mistress) holds the key to James's whereabouts. All Simon needs to do is to find some way to infiltrate the Applequist household. And what better way than by pretending to be Mr. Applequist? All seems to be proceeding according to plan, that is, until Simon realizes that Agatha is unlike any other lady he's ever met. Never has met so intelligent, devious and determined a lady -- and she's also kind and compassionate to boot. And it doesn't take Simon long to realize just how deep and inappropriate his feelings for Agatha really are. For Simon fully intends to arrest James on the charge of treason as soon as he finds him. And just how this will affect Agatha is something he dares not contemplate...
If you like big Regency romance novels -- the ones with sweeping plot-lines that possess a few twists and turns and moments of poignancy, humour and tenderness, with good character development, and a sizzling attraction between the hero and heroine (where neither of them is in denial about their attraction to each other), than you'll really be pleased with "The Pretender." Celeste Bradley is a gem of a writer. Somehow she's managed to incorporate all the elements of what makes a book a good romantic read without letting any one element taking over -- the spy subplot is not told at the expense of the romance subplot (or vice versa) and neither subplot is hampered by overblown sex scenes or a prose style that will make you hoot with laughter. Indeed, "The Pretender" is an all around excellent read, that should not to be missed.
Rating: 5
Summary: I Just Loved it!
Comment: I loved all the characters in this book, especially the heroine. I recomend this book to anyone who loves romance and has a sense of humor. I will definately by all Celeste Bradley's books and I hope she can write fast.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unexpected find-- great read!
Comment: I bought this book at random and it was worth the time and the money! Abby is looking for her brother, who has gone missing. To provide more freedom of movement, she arrives in London and pretends to be married. Simon is also looking for her brother, but not quite for the same reasons. Simon believes her brother is a traitor and has turned his back on Simon and the other "liars" that are spies for England during the Napoleonic wars. When Abby and Simon meet, sparks and hilarity ensue.
This book is funny, entertaining, moving, and just worth it! It also acts as the beginning for a new series-- one that I am already waiting for the sequel.
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Title: The Impostor : The Liar's Club by Celeste Bradley ISBN: 0312984863 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 19 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: To Marry the Duke by Julianne MacLean ISBN: 0060527048 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Spy by Celeste Bradley ISBN: 0312987846 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Tempted by Pamela Britton ISBN: 0446611301 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 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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