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Title: Slightly Tempted by MARY BALOGH ISBN: 0-440-24106-5 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (24 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Slightly harsh perhaps, but a disappointing book
Comment: I have so enjoyed the Bedwyn series, but Morgan's story was a disappointment. Morgan's sensitive soul fails to touch the reader because of Balogh's preachiness. The war took up most of the story line and Morgan's face-to-face encounter with the horrors of war came across as a series of sermons rather than windows into her heart and the anguish she surely feels. Only her concern for brother Alleyne and her sense of betrayal by Gervase touche the reader's heart.
As for Gervase, even after he supposedly loves Morgan, he uses her to get revenge upon Wulfric. Despite occasionaly feeling sorry for him because of the unfairness of his earlier life, his treatment of Morgan after they had become friends was not well done; it seemed like a cheap plot device.
I did, however -- as is the case with the best of Mary Balogh's books -- share the Bedwyn's grief enough to cry with Aidan and Wulf (yes, Wulf).
I wanted to like this book, but for Balogh, 2 stars is all it's worth. From anyone else, it might be worth 3. This time, though, the disappointment was too great for me.
The best thing about this book is the burning desire it creates to read Wulf's story. I'll be chomping at the bit until June. If it's a disappointment, I'll have to wait a long time to read this author again; I've been waiting for his story too long. Until then, Alleyne's story appears in May; and the anticipation of that is another good thing about "Slightly Tempted" -- both of the final books in the series have excerpts at the end.
Rating: 1
Summary: Her worst to date
Comment: I have every one of Mary Balogh's books in my Keeper Box--except this one. There is such a lack of logic to the plot (at the risk of tossing in a spoiler...what happened to Morgan's grief and Regency mourning conventions???) that it went in the Goodwill box.
Now I see that she is giving Wulfric one of her silly heroines...Balogh does light-heartedness poorly, and I wince at the thought of 250 pages of leaden whimsy. Let us pray that she hasn't sunk to the level of, say, "The Famous Heroine."
Rating: 5
Summary: Morgan and Gervase, sittin in a tree
Comment: Slightly tempted? Puh-leeze. I would say that these two were far more than simply tempted. They were tantalizing with their very French waltzes, stolen kisses, embraces in the moonlight. Who knew Brussels at wartime held so much sexual tension? A sweet and saucy tale of two very different personalities, coming together to make a perfect pair. And the ending? How can Ms. Balogh leave her readers hanging that way without remorse? Oh- she KNEW we'd have to go out and get the next in the series!
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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: 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 Scandalous by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0440241111 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Gentleman's Honor by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0060002077 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Slightly Wicked by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0440241057 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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