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Summary: Regency Romance
Review: First I'll quote the author from the front of the book:Dear Reader, Bad boys can be fascinating. With this in mind I decided to write about some, and the result is a miniseries of Regencies that commences with Mr. Trelawney's Proposal. The novels feature heroes, linked by family or friendship, who are definite rogues-wickedly charming, wryly humorous, dangerously attractive. Good girls can't resist them. But innocence can be as captivating as sophistication: the heroines are more than a match for their jaded suitors. Gentle widow Victoria Hart succeeds in taming and securing the devotion of cynical rake Viscount Courtenay in A Kind and Decent Man. His friend, Sir Richard Du Quesne, is equally predatory and disreputable in The Silver Squire, and relentlessly pursues unassuming spinster Emma Worthington...until she catches him and brings him very willingly to his knees. As their separate stories unfold, the couples battle through a maelstrom of action and emotion. I hope you enjoy their passionate skirmishing, the laughter and tears that pave the way to harmony and happiness, as much as I have enjoyed writing the novels for you. Mary Brendan Personally I think the author has succeeded in her intentions. The Hero is a "bad boy" I found him immature, the heroine is innocent in the extreme. When going to a brothel is search of her long lost brother she is surprised to find herself shown to a bedroom, detained and sold. Not my personal taste, some of the misunderstandings seem a bit far fetched, but it is a reprint so it would seem to have sold reasonably well in the past. From the back of the Harlequin paperback: AN INDECENT PROPOSAL! Miss Rebecca Nash had found refuge and a kind landlord in Robin, Lord Rumsden. Shed needed both five years ago, when she'd lost her parents and fiancé, and her brother Simon had disappeared with her dowry Now, suddenly Robin was dead, and his heir, Luke Trelawne intended to wind matters up quickly before he returned to Cornwall. At his first sight of Rebecca, he changed his mind. Mistakenly believing Rebecca to have been Robin's mistress, he saw no reason she could not be his, as well. But Rebecca had other ideas!
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Summary: A refreshing change
Review: If you like adolescent heroines and stories set in London society drawing rooms then this one isn't for you. If like me you want a Regency that's a bit more exciting then try this one. The hero is a gorgeous piratical type, sexy and powerful. The heroine is well past her teens, proud and feisty but sweet with it. Best of all the plot has some unexpected twists and turns and some amusing and interesting minor characters. The action takes place by the coast in rural Brighton rather than in a ballroom in Mayfair. I read it in one go, and will definitely look out for more by this author.
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Summary: not my cup of tea
Review: Novels with plots and characters like the one found in "Mr. Trelawney's Proposal" are, I think, an acquired taste, and not for everyone. Luke Trelawney (our 'hero') is exactly the kind of romance hero that grates -- domineering, dismissive of other/lesser people's views, esp if it is not in concordance with his, and incredibly manipulative. What on earth the incredibly naive heroine of this novel, Rebecca Nash, saw in Trelawney besides his obvious good looks, baffled me completely. The novel opens when Trelawney learns that he has inherited a relative's estate, and repairs there to have a look at his inheritance. There, he finds the very young, beautiful and very much alone in the world heroine of this romance, Rebecca Nash. He mistakes her for his dead relative's mistress, and struck by her beauty, he offers step in as her new protector. And when she angrily rejects his offer and sets him right on her true status, he ups the offer to encompass marriage; and she, for goodness knows what reason, accepts his proposal! Perhaps I'm alone in this, but does this strike anyone else as being incredibly surreal? Why would any woman except such a proposal, esp when it came on the heels of an offer of carte balche? Shouldn't the whole incident have made Rebecca question Trelawney's motives a little bit more than she did? Another factor I found disturbing was the fact that Luke came across as a bit of a sexual bully: he used his kisses and touch to overcome Rebecca's misgivings everytime they had an arguement and difference of opinion! I'm not sure how one can classify such behaviour as 'romantic' -- controlling perhaps, but not romantic. Romance novels, in my opinion, should be about the coming together of minds and hearts; not about one character trying to control and dominate the other. And I really wish that "Mr. Trelawney's Proposal" had been about the former instead of the latter.
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Summary: A refreshing change
Review: Novels with plots and characters like the one found in "Mr. Trelawney's Proposal" are, I think, an acquired taste, and not for everyone. Luke Trelawney (our 'hero') is exactly the kind of romance hero that grates -- domineering, dismissive of other/lesser people's views, esp if it is not in concordance with his, and incredibly manipulative. What on earth the incredibly naive heroine of this novel, Rebecca Nash, saw in Trelawney besides his obvious good looks, baffled me completely. The novel opens when Trelawney learns that he has inherited a relative's estate, and repairs there to have a look at his inheritance. There, he finds the very young, beautiful and very much alone in the world heroine of this romance, Rebecca Nash. He mistakes her for his dead relative's mistress, and struck by her beauty, he offers step in as her new protector. And when she angrily rejects his offer and sets him right on her true status, he ups the offer to encompass marriage; and she, for goodness knows what reason, accepts his proposal! Perhaps I'm alone in this, but does this strike anyone else as being incredibly surreal? Why would any woman except such a proposal, esp when it came on the heels of an offer of carte balche? Shouldn't the whole incident have made Rebecca question Trelawney's motives a little bit more than she did? Another factor I found disturbing was the fact that Luke came across as a bit of a sexual bully: he used his kisses and touch to overcome Rebecca's misgivings everytime they had an arguement and difference of opinion! I'm not sure how one can classify such behaviour as 'romantic' -- controlling perhaps, but not romantic. Romance novels, in my opinion, should be about the coming together of minds and hearts; not about one character trying to control and dominate the other. And I really wish that "Mr. Trelawney's Proposal" had been about the former instead of the latter.
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