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A Loving Scoundrel (Malory Family)

A Loving Scoundrel (Malory Family)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: another tramp who becomes a lady
Review: There are only a few surprising twists here, but still a good, well-told yarn. Danny is the street-girl shunned by her gang, who ends up working as a maid for the dashing studly Jeremy Malory. She wants him to make a real lady out of her. The fun of the story is in Jeremy trying to get her to sleep with him, and her eluding his advances. She develops real romantic feelings for him, but she doesn't want to give in because she knows he's a [hot] rogue. The prospects of love between them are further complicated by a scheming heiress, and the plot thickens even further as Danny discovers her true identity that she really is a real lady by birth after all anyway! Seems a bit too coincidental? Well sure, perhaps, but such plot devices are common for this kind of novel. As for the ending, it's not surprising but is nevertheless satisfying.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Jeremy's Story **dreamy sigh**
Review: This book was very good. It wasn't as 5 star excellent as the other Malory novels, but it was still a great read. The things Jeremy did were a great way to show the audience that he'd been "around the block" with the sensual way he pressed against Danny, bringing her to wanting him with out actually touching her.

One thing that bothered me was the word "nabob". It was used too much I think. We all know that Jeremy is an extraordinary handsome devil, but I would have liked to see him snared by a woman who wasn't so beautiful. Danny had been beautiful from the start, even with her short cropped hair. She was even a beautiful "boy" in the beginning of the book.

But there is just something special when a sinfully handsome man falls for a woman who isn't quite so glamorous herself, and I was hoping for a little of that with this story. Johanna tries to pull it off with her wearing pants and being dirty, but she is still described as beautiful. I much preferred the chemistry between Lachlan and Kimber in "Love Me Forever". She was ordinary, she wasn't beautiful.

It just would have been nice to see Jeremy Malory, a man known for dallying with beautiful women, fall for an ordinary girl and realizing there's more to women than a pretty face and a quick tumble. But that would have been my story had I been the author.

Johanna, however, did a wonderful job regardless, and Jeremy was every bit as roguish as we'd hoped he would be. And I'm glad she didn't overuse his signature saying "Hell's Bells" too much. When he did say it, it didn't seem forced. Thank you Johanna!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Much Enjoyed Novel
Review: Well, I have been a dedicated fan of Johanna Lindsey and the Malory clan since I was 14 years old. I have been waiting for this novel for years, and was very pleased with the overall read. I have read the other reviews complaining that the Jeremy character was not well developed, but I felt that, of course, Jeremy has to view everything in terms of sex and that he would size up every potential woman as a future bed partner, this should come as no suprise to fans of the Malory series.

I also enjoyed Danny, while some complained that she is "too beautiful", I would have to say that this is what romance novels are all about. A stunning gorgeous man and a spunky fiesty gorgeous woman. I found Danny's beauty endearing as she doesn't realize that she is beautiful and doesn't base her morals on that which is refreshing. And that she is such a genuinly good person with a giving,loving spirit.

Overall, I throughly enjoyed the book and am now eagerly awaiting the next installment, Drew Anderson or Maybe Jack and Judy's stories??


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