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Title: Venus by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553573691 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3
Rating: 3
Summary: Same stuff, different day
Comment: The author has a gift for interesting dialogs appropriate to the time period she is writing of,(despite the alltime most irritating word "mayhaps"in that genre). In this case the setting is in the 1600s in King Charles reign. The aristocrats are powerful and conniving with a mishmash conspiracy plot by Lord Buckingham to control the King and bolster his own ill defined power grab. He is the sleezy villian in the yarn.
The Baron Kincaid is the flummoxed rescuer of another of Feather's trademark inane and very unsympathetic heroines. In this case the damsel in distress is Polly Wyat, a 17 year old of unremarkable birth who is currently serving in a sleezy pub at the mercy of her cruel and abusive uncle. She is a fleabitten, filthy bar maid in search of an escape from her strife filled life and looking for a protector to help her fulfill her dream of becoming a stage actor.
There are so many loose ends in this book that despite a different and potentially interesting plot the end result is confusion. What happens to Lord Kincaid's career after his false imprisonment? What about his grand plans to overthrow Buckingham? What does he do with his new bride and his irascible sister Lady Margaret a puritan of preachy morality who bites the very hand that feeds her? In this story the hero is also dimwitted even though he is an experienced at the art and folly of politics. On many levels this story made no sense as it progressed and proved ultimately frustrating.
But I think most of all, my objections to this book is that this is another one of the dimwit females that the author seems to have in every one of her books. This one is obnoxious in her posturing and cutesy mannerisms to the point of teeth grinding by this reader. If you like this sort of helpless female in embattled situations falling into the arms of a strong man with a big "sword" then this book is for you.
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Title: Kissed by Shadows by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553583085 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Lady Chosen by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0060002069 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Worth Any Price by Lisa Kleypas ISBN: 0380811073 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn ISBN: 0380820854 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Scandalous Again by Christina Dodd ISBN: 0060092653 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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