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Title: Flowers Under Ice by Jean R. Ewing, Jean Ross Ewing ISBN: 0-425-17036-5 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A terrific sexy book!!!
Comment: Simply the best romance I've read all year! A sexy, seductive Regency adventure where a London rake and a proud Highland woman explore the seven deadly sins, one for each day of an amazing seven-day journey to Scotland, while they each tempt and seduce the other. The deadly sins were never this much fun before, but it's also a gripping mystery involving a lost baby, and full of surprises. A truly moving story. Dominic is incredible. He's a classic rake, but he hides so much passion and tenderness behind his fabulous sense of humor. He made me laugh out loud, while Catriona's courage and tenacity stunned me. She felt so true to the Highlands of Scotland, I really felt I was there. Definitely a keeper!
Rating: 5
Summary: Passionate and exciting romance fiction
Comment: Sometimes you read a book, and you enjoy it, and then you read reviews by others, and wonder if you've all read the same book! This is the problem I have with a couple of the reviews posted here for Flowers Under Ice, a truly magnificent action-packed story with passionate protagonists, sound historical background, and complex plotting. This is intelligent writing, among the very best in historical romance today. There is no rape in this book. How absurd! I agree that there are still bodice-rippers in this genre that feature men who don't understand the meaning of "no" but this is simply not one of them. Dominic is a dark hero, a disturbed man, beset by many demons. Yes, he wants to bed Catriona, but he comes to love her, and she becomes his salvation. Love can heal, that's the message of this novel. And the passion is mutual, it's believable, it's palpable. This book is among the very best of its genre...it is uplifting and fine. Don't miss out on this treat...
Rating: 5
Summary: Tempt not, lest you be tempted in return...
Comment: Dominic Wyndham, to all intents and purposes a dissolute aristocrat and younger brother of an earl, with little purpose in life beyond drinking, gambling and indulging in seemingly-pointless wagers, is shocked to be told, without warning, that his estranged wife is dead. Shocked enough to hide his real grief and pain behind a mask of cold, sardonic humour - which, in turn, shocks the young woman who has travelled from Scotland to deliver the news.
Catriona, the bearer of the news of Harriet's death, is not surprised at Wyndham's reaction; after all, Harriet, whom she'd known for some time, had made clear to her that Wyndham was a wastrel and a harsh, unkind man. Harriet herself had left Dominic after their wedding night, claiming that he'd done depraved and humiliating things to her. As such, Catriona is fully prepared to believe the worst of Dominic - an impression which isn't changed one bit after their encounter later that night. She sneaks into his room to talk to him, to plead with him to come to Edinburgh with her because Harriet left a child, a son, whose care Wyndham must assume. However, Catriona is well aware that the boy isn't Wyndham's son - and she is surprised when he states that he could not possibly be the boy's father. All the same, he tells her, he will travel to Edinburgh to see to the child's future - on certain conditions.
Those conditions are that Catriona must travel with him to all intents and purposes as his mistress. On the way, he says, they will indulge in sin - one deadly sin for each day on the road. "Every day you will be besieged by a man who has a great deal more experience in the game than you do. I shall seduce you," he promises. "You will fall in love and I shall break your heart. I guarantee it."
Yet he also promises that he will do nothing without her consent - so to an earlier reviewer, I point out that Wyndham fully understands that 'no' means 'no'. Nothing is done with Catriona without her express consent - in fact, at times, her pleading.
For reasons of her own, Catriona desperately needs Wyndham to come, and so she agrees to his terms - showing no fear, but also desperately trying not to show him how truly tempted she is by him. By his seductive voice, by his beautiful hands, his handsome body and face, his touch... and his kisses. For she cannot afford to lose her heart, and never to an Englishman. Besides, Wyndham is a scoundrel and a rake... isn't he?
Wyndham is, in fact, far from being either, as any reader who hasn't already read Illusion will find out gradually as the book advances. Nothing he does is without a cause: to help a friend, to try to win back the wife he has persuades himself he loves, for the sake of his country. As for Catriona, he is tempted by her and intrigued by the mystery she presents, for he knows very well that there is something else behind her thin story about a fatherless, motherless boy. And so they embark on an intimate journey together, facing danger, facing trials... and facing temptation. But in the end, whose heart is most at risk? Catriona's - or Dominic's?
I didn't find this book quite as compelling as Illusion; the dramatic plot wasn't as gripping as that in the earlier book - the need to rescue the baby didn't really have the same interest for me. Yet Dominic and Catriona are similarly complex and driven by demons as were Nigel and Frances in Illusion - and fans of the earlier book will get the opportunity to see them again in this. So still a five-star review, but Illusion definitely has the edge.
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Title: The Wicked Lover by Julia Ross ISBN: 042519406X Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Love's Reward (Zebra Regency Romance) by Jean R. Ewing ISBN: 0821758128 Publisher: Zebra Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: My Dark Prince by Julia Ross ISBN: 051512883X Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Virtue's Reward (Zebra Regency Romance) by Jean R. Ewing ISBN: 0821748475 Publisher: Zebra Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Rogue's Reward (Zebra Regency Romance) by Jean R. Ewing ISBN: 0821751468 Publisher: Zebra Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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