Well Pleasured Lady

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Summary: A Well Pleasured Lady
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. The plot and the character development was weak. You didn't really care what happened to the characters. Sexual tension, though present, was not very tense! Not worth your time.

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Summary: Hot, steamy, witty!
Review: I've always liked Christina Dodd, but this one is the best. What a man! And the heroine the only one who could tame him. Great stuff. The old lady is funny, too.

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Summary: OKAY...COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER
Review: In A WELL PLEASURED LADY, helpless Lady Mary Fairchild and her younger brother, Hadden, are cast away from their wealthy family upon the death of their father. They struggle to start a new life and Mary takes the position of managing housekeeper for the kindly Madame Valery, a former "woman-of-the world." Over the years, Mary changed from the petulant teen into the epitome of self-control. But she has a really deep, dark secret. She murdered a man 10 years ago and someone else out there knows she did it.

Quite unexpectedly, Viscount Sebastian Durant calls Mary's presence into service. He needs her to provide even more assistance to Madame Valery, his godmother. He also convinces Mary that she will be providing patriotic assistance to her country. She is enlisted to help retrieve a certain diary concerning personal information on some other country's finest citizens. To accomplish her task, must return to the family, which once threw her out. Making matters considerably worse, she must do it, acting as the betrothed to Sebastian, the one man who may be the witness to the murder she committed all those years ago.

Mary goes along with the plan, for safety and for secrecy, but when she arrives at the family estate she realizes that she been set up ridicule and discovery by Sebastian, the family and the one who really saw her commit the murder.

A WELL PLEASURED LADY is a good book, full of passion and mystery. It has a very good ending.

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Summary: ENJOYABLY DIFFERENT
Review: In A WELL PLEASURED LADY, helpless Lady Mary Fairchild and her younger brother, Hadden, are cast away from their wealthy family upon the death of their father. They struggle to start a new life and Mary takes the position of managing housekeeper for the kindly Madame Valery, a former "woman-of-the world." Over the years, Mary changed from the petulant teen into the epitome of self-control. But she has a really deep, dark secret. She murdered a man 10 years ago and someone else out there knows she did it.

Quite unexpectedly, Viscount Sebastian Durant calls Mary's presence into service. He needs her to provide even more assistance to Madame Valery, his godmother. He also convinces Mary that she will be providing patriotic assistance to her country. She is enlisted to help retrieve a certain diary concerning personal information on some other country's finest citizens. To accomplish her task, must return to the family, which once threw her out. Making matters considerably worse, she must do it, acting as the betrothed to Sebastian, the one man who may be the witness to the murder she committed all those years ago.

Mary goes along with the plan, for safety and for secrecy, but when she arrives at the family estate she realizes that she been set up ridicule and discovery by Sebastian, the family and the one who really saw her commit the murder.

A WELL PLEASURED LADY is a good book, full of passion and mystery. It has a very good ending.

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Summary: Less than one star
Review: It has been a long time since I have picked up a book and couldn't bear to turn the pages or even peek at the ending. Well, this was it. I keep trying to finish this because I read the other reviews and thought it has to get better. Mary Guinevere Fairchild isn't a heroine that I cared about. This story has nothing to recommend it.

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Summary: Less than one star
Review: It has been a long time since I have picked up a book and couldn't bear to turn the pages or even peek at the ending. Well, this was it. I keep trying to finish this because I read the other reviews and thought it has to get better. Mary Guinevere Fairchild isn't a heroine that I cared about. This story has nothing to recommend it.

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Summary: Love it or hate it
Review: It took me quite a while to decide if I actually like the book or not. After the first reading I found it merely average. However, I reread it and I loved it - tremendously so. True, the characters seem strange and the plot resembles a stage play but this is also what I liked most. Thanks to Ms Dodds writing style you get the feeling that you are in the heads of the characters (this is probably why I found it so odd first) and it's amusing once you figure out that they are sometimes deceiving themselves - just like real people. Anyway, I can certainly understand that it is not everybody's cup of tea but once you get into the spirit of the book it's big fun.

As to rape and violence: I don't think that applies to AWPL. While reading the scene in question I never thought that Sebastian forced Mary. Hey, she makes not attempts to stop him and has no wish to do so - plainly spoken, she has a great time (and it's fiction anyway).

Decide for yourself if you like it or not, but it's a great book. In my opinion Ms Dodds best.

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Summary: Well Pleased with Well Pleasured...
Review: Lady Guinevere Mary Fairchild had been wealthy, impetuous, and a little spoiled as a young lady. But that quickly changed. First with the death of her parents, followed by the rejection of Mary and her brother, by their tyrannical grandfather. Then she had to kill a man to protect her brother. And there was one witness to the crime - Sebastian Durant, Viscount Whitfield, enemy of the Fairchild family. Now it's ten years later; she's known as Mary Rottenson, and she has left her Fairchild life behind. Prim, proper and emotionally constrained, Mary now concentrates on the efficient performance of her duties as housekeeper to Lady Valery. But her life is changed again when her employer's godson, Sebastian, returns to aide in the retrieval of Lady Valery's stolen diary. A diary which contains damaging secret information, elicited from several political leaders with whom she was "involved". Sebastian blackmails Mary into posing as his betrothed, to infiltrate the conniving Fairchild family, where he believes the diary to be. Danger lurks around every corner, but the greatest danger may be the growing intensity between Sebastian and Mary.

This is my favorite type of Dodd book. Full of humor, wit, intrigue and sexual tension that vibrates with the reading of each page. She proves herself once again a masterful storyteller. If I had to find something critical to say, it would be that Sebastian probably wasn't my favorite hero she's written, but all the other characters make up for it. The elderly Lady Valery was definitely the best supporting character here. Her own style of "investigating" the Fairchilds for her diary provided some of the funniest moments. As for the controversy surrounding their first time together, I don't feel this was rape. She was fiercely independent, and unwilling to give in to her passion for Sebastian. And I agree with a previous reviewer, she wouldn't have asked him to continue or had an orgasm if rape was involved.

This is the first of a two book series. Ian Fairchild's story, "A Well Favored Gentleman", provides the sequel and I highly recommend it as well. Both books definitely go on my keeper shelf!

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Summary: Ooh la la
Review: Ms. Dodd's books are always witty fun, but this one was particularly fine. I love her books for her quirky humor. This one tho also gets high marks for the pure, amazing sexiness of the character interaction. There is a scene in a corner that will melt your socks. Brava, Ms. Dodd! Another gem!

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Summary: A SEDUCTIVE BOOK
Review: Seduction is part of the game in this book and I love that. Bawdy humor and escapades make this one of Ms. Dodd's best. You can almost see this one being played out on the stage. Great characterizations and plot. You will want to read this one straight through so don't start it too late. A keeper. Enjoy!