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Title: The Devil You Know by Liz Carlyle ISBN: 0-7434-3787-X Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Passion to Die For
Comment: Anything Liz Carlyle comes out with now is an automatic buy for me. One thing you can always be assured of is fabulous intelligent dialog, subtle and/or outrageous humor and intense sensuality. One thing you will find is that of six books I've read, you most often will re-visit or have mention made of characters from previous novels and this common thread is one I look forward to as I think most book lovers will agree, when the characters are so finely drawn out they remain in your heart and become 'friends' that you like to revisit at times.
Bently 'Hell-Bent' Rutledge, first mentioned in 'Beauty Like the Night' is and was a rogue ' handsome, devilish, but even then you saw he did have a heart. Here you get to meet him up front and personal, with no holds barred good and bad. Of course, in order to strip him to the core and show his soul it takes a very special woman, Frederica d'Avillez ' exotic and beautiful beauty ' a ward of another hero from 'My False Heart'. It takes an amazingly and gifted author to hold your attention through an entire book with a 'soft' plot but indeed it is done here. Characterizations are so exquisitely drawn, that you will find this as all of Carlyle's books extremely hard to put down. The passion and the SEX is to die for! This with all of her other books land permanently on my keeper shelf!
Rating: 5
Summary: Regrets, Redemption, and Second Chances
Comment: Ever since his first appearance in Liz Carlyle's BEAUTY LIKE THE NIGHT, I have been intrigued by Bentley Rutledge. A scamp with a penchant for malicious mischief, who showed up in later books as an unrepentant rogue, Randolph Bentham "Hell-Bent" Rutledge has been screaming for a comeuppance, and I am delighted to report that Ms. Carlyle gives him a rather stunning one in THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
Bentley is visiting long-time friends at Chatham Lodge, and after one night's drunken revels, he encounters disconsolate and furious Frederica d'Avillez in the gardens. Freddie, whom he has long viewed as a younger sister but recently noticed as a woman, is smarting over being rejected by her almost-fiancé due to her "inferior" bloodlines. After crying on Bentley's shoulder, she seduces him - part pride, part secret longing. Bentley has never been one to say no to any sort of vice and obliges her. He wakes with some regret in the morning, and leaves a "pretty" proposal in her room before escaping. But he doesn't know that his proposal flies out the window with him and Freddie never received it.
Soon it is announced that Freddie is going abroad to marry. Bentley's been waiting weeks for the axe to fall, and can hardly believe that Freddie won't have him - or that Freddie's male relatives don't want him dead. Once he discovers she is pregnant and the marriage abroad is a ruse, he proposes that they marry for six months, and that he will always provide for Freddie and the child financially. Bentley and Freddie journey to his family's estate, where Bentley is forced to confront his past while trying to set up a viable future for his little family.
It was wonderful to get inside Bentley's head. I always suspected there was more to him than he let on, that he was more than just a debauched rake. And there is. Bentley's past is surprisingly heart-wrenching; his feelings of hopelessness and despair are quite tangible to the reader.
I haven't talked much about Freddie. She is a very sympathetic character, especially since she is trying to do what readers want to do: figure out what makes Bentley tick. Bentley is most definitely the star of this show, but I for one did not mind him upstaging everyone else (except, perhaps, Kemble!).
I was a bit dismayed when I realized this was to be a marriage-forced-for-pregnancy plot, as this is one of my least favorite devices. But in Ms. Carlyle I trust, and she did not lead me astray. THE DEVIL YOU KNOW is a testament to what can happen to a seemingly irrepressible rogue in the hands of a master storyteller.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well worth buying
Comment: This was my first Liz Carlyle. I loved this book so much that I bought all her others.
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Title: No True Gentleman by Liz Carlyle ISBN: 0743437845 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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: The Lady Chosen by Stephanie Laurens ISBN: 0060002069 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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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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