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Summary: I liked this book - smith is a good solid writer
Review: From the very first page of A Seductive Offer, Kathryn Smith has your attention. Wow. This book offers everything we all read romance fiction for...and makes you reluctant to get to the last page. It just doesn't get any better than this! I read a lot, and it is such a joy to have discovered a new author to follow. Very few writers draw me in deeply through their charactors' vulnerabilities, needs and passions. Smith does. I marvel at how she unravels a story so gently and wonderfully. She looks honestly at timeless issues, staying true to how people really are. Buy this book. You WON'T regret it! In fact, you'll savor every page and be sorry to reach the end. Elusive Passion, Smith's first book, is also a keeper!
Rating: 
Summary: 5 stars are not enough for Kathryn Smith!
Review: From the very first page of A Seductive Offer, Kathryn Smith has your attention. Wow. This book offers everything we all read romance fiction for...and makes you reluctant to get to the last page. It just doesn't get any better than this! I read a lot, and it is such a joy to have discovered a new author to follow. Very few writers draw me in deeply through their charactors' vulnerabilities, needs and passions. Smith does. I marvel at how she unravels a story so gently and wonderfully. She looks honestly at timeless issues, staying true to how people really are. Buy this book. You WON'T regret it! In fact, you'll savor every page and be sorry to reach the end. Elusive Passion, Smith's first book, is also a keeper!
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Summary: Very enjoyable!
Review: I became a fan of Kathryn Smith's after reading her first book,
"Elusive Passion". When I heard she had a second book out, I bought it immediately and it didn't disappoint. I like Smith's
unique writing style, and the way she deals with contemporary issues like domestic abuse, alcoholism and suicide. Her characters, Brave and Rachel, have a sense of humour, and her protagonists seem to genuinely care for and respect one another, something that is lacking in a great deal of historical romances. There is a subplot in this novel dealing with a lost love of a friend of Brave's, and I've heard Smith is working on a book about this couple. I'm looking forward to reading it.
If you enjoy romance novels but are bored with reading the same tired plots and dialogue over and over again, this book is definitely for you.
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Summary: Engaging characters and a unique voice...
Review: I have read both of Ms. Smith's novels and am now very much looking forward to the next. She seems to be improving each time. This novel revolves around Lord Braven, Balthazar Wycherley, but "Brave" to all, and Rachel Ashton, the daughter of his father's dear friend, a childhood acquaintance and the woman he is required to rescue in the first scene of the book.
The obligation to rescue her a second time, this time from an abusive Step-father and an unwanted arranged marriage, and is the process hopefully negate Brave's guilt over his inability to save another young woman from his past, brings our hero and heroine together in marriage.
Overall the book was very enjoyable. Ms. Smith allowed a real warmth and caring to develop between her characters. The story line of extreme domestic abuse brought a seriousness to the story that made our leads triumph of love seem all the more important.
Add to that the introduction of two intriguing gentlemen, at least one of which is the hero of a future Kathryn Smith novel, and the combined package is a thought provoking sensuous journey.
I recommend this novel.Amanda Faulkner
Rating:
Summary: Engaging characters and a unique voice...
Review: I have read both of Ms. Smith's novels and am now very much looking forward to the next. She seems to be improving each time. This novel revolves around Lord Braven, Balthazar Wycherley, but "Brave" to all, and Rachel Ashton, the daughter of his father's dear friend, a childhood acquaintance and the woman he is required to rescue in the first scene of the book.
The obligation to rescue her a second time, this time from an abusive Step-father and an unwanted arranged marriage, and is the process hopefully negate Brave's guilt over his inability to save another young woman from his past, brings our hero and heroine together in marriage.
Overall the book was very enjoyable. Ms. Smith allowed a real warmth and caring to develop between her characters. The story line of extreme domestic abuse brought a seriousness to the story that made our leads triumph of love seem all the more important.
Add to that the introduction of two intriguing gentlemen, at least one of which is the hero of a future Kathryn Smith novel, and the combined package is a thought provoking sensuous journey.
I recommend this novel. Amanda Faulkner
Rating:
Summary: Very enjoyable!
Review: In 1816 Yorkshire, the Earl of Braven, better known as Brave, risks his life and rescues Rachel Ashton from drowning in the nearby river. He takes her to his home Wyck's End so they both can dry off and warm up from their debacle. Rachel informs her savior that her abusive stepfather Sir Henry Westhaver plans to sell Rachel to the highest bidder by marrying her to fifty something, obese lecher Viscount Charlton.
Brave decides a marriage of convenience will save both he and Rachel. He would be removed from the dreaded available bachelor list and thus enable him to hide his broken heart received from a previous relationship. She would be free of her odious stepfather and his even more despicable groom. However, his concept goes awry as Rachel and Brave fall in love, but is he really brave enough to take the plunge into a loving relationship?
Though the story line of this Regency romance follows sub-genre lines, the humorous exchanges between the lead protagonists make the tale quite entertaining. The story line is fun as Brave and Rachel banter on anything while struggling with an attraction and a love that he never expected. Kathryn Smith provides the audience with A SEDUCTIVE OFFER of reading pleasure. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Fun Regency romance
Review: In 1816 Yorkshire, the Earl of Braven, better known as Brave, risks his life and rescues Rachel Ashton from drowning in the nearby river. He takes her to his home Wyck's End so they both can dry off and warm up from their debacle. Rachel informs her savior that her abusive stepfather Sir Henry Westhaver plans to sell Rachel to the highest bidder by marrying her to fifty something, obese lecher Viscount Charlton.
Brave decides a marriage of convenience will save both he and Rachel. He would be removed from the dreaded available bachelor list and thus enable him to hide his broken heart received from a previous relationship. She would be free of her odious stepfather and his even more despicable groom. However, his concept goes awry as Rachel and Brave fall in love, but is he really brave enough to take the plunge into a loving relationship?
Though the story line of this Regency romance follows sub-genre lines, the humorous exchanges between the lead protagonists make the tale quite entertaining. The story line is fun as Brave and Rachel banter on anything while struggling with an attraction and a love that he never expected. Kathryn Smith provides the audience with A SEDUCTIVE OFFER of reading pleasure. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Guilt, redemption, forgiveness
Review: Lord Braven finds a woman drowning and it brings back memories. He saves the woman only to discover himself having feelings he hasn't had in over a year for the rescued woman. Could she be the key to his redemption? Will his saving her save him? Rachel Ashton's life is saved, but what kind of life is it? Her current days are spent trying to keep an abusive stepfather from hurting her mother more than he already had and trying to find a way to get her a divorce without him finding out. When Rachel discovers that not only has her Stepfather sold her into marriage, but into marriage with a man very much like him. So she goes to Lord Braven for help. His offer is to marry her. Of course, it's just a marriage of convenience, but Lord Braven wants to save Rachel to hopefully rid the demons that torment his soul. While Rachel only wants to save her mother. The abusive stepfather and the complicated nature of the relationship between Rachel and Lord Braven offer up an interesting story. There are some very dark moments of the story involving the abusive relationship and the lengths an abuser will go to. There is also some humor in the story so it blends with together along with great chemistry between Lord Braven and Rachel. They are both attracted to each other, but isn't this marriage simply for convenience? I enjoyed this story much more than I thought I enjoy historical romances but many today are still rather bland in the love scene department. Usually if you want to go past the bedroom door you have to search and ask for referrals from fellow readers.
This book has great heat and is very descriptive. For romance readers who enjoy a good love scene this is one. The book has great tension between the two lovers. There are many scenes of build up before the big event. This is what good romance books are to me. They have story and the event is also as good as the story. I look forward to reading more by this author. As if I need another author to be hooked on, but happily I add her to the ever growing piles of faves on my list:)
Rating:
Summary: Guilt, redemption, forgiveness
Review: Lord Braven finds a woman drowning and it brings back memories. He saves the woman only to discover himself having feelings he hasn't had in over a year for the rescued woman. Could she be the key to his redemption? Will his saving her save him? Rachel Ashton's life is saved, but what kind of life is it? Her current days are spent trying to keep an abusive stepfather from hurting her mother more than he already had and trying to find a way to get her a divorce without him finding out. When Rachel discovers that not only has her Stepfather sold her into marriage, but into marriage with a man very much like him. So she goes to Lord Braven for help. His offer is to marry her. Of course, it's just a marriage of convenience, but Lord Braven wants to save Rachel to hopefully rid the demons that torment his soul. While Rachel only wants to save her mother. The abusive stepfather and the complicated nature of the relationship between Rachel and Lord Braven offer up an interesting story. There are some very dark moments of the story involving the abusive relationship and the lengths an abuser will go to. There is also some humor in the story so it blends with together along with great chemistry between Lord Braven and Rachel. They are both attracted to each other, but isn't this marriage simply for convenience? I enjoyed this story much more than I thought I enjoy historical romances but many today are still rather bland in the love scene department. Usually if you want to go past the bedroom door you have to search and ask for referrals from fellow readers.
This book has great heat and is very descriptive. For romance readers who enjoy a good love scene this is one. The book has great tension between the two lovers. There are many scenes of build up before the big event. This is what good romance books are to me. They have story and the event is also as good as the story. I look forward to reading more by this author. As if I need another author to be hooked on, but happily I add her to the ever growing piles of faves on my list:)
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Summary: I liked this book - smith is a good solid writer
Review: This book was a good read, but it did not captivate me into reading it quickly. I found I was able to put it down and come back to it. It took me quite a few days to read. I just got bored with it in many spots. But maybe it is just my taste in writing style. There are many books I finish in one day not being able to put down, but this was not one of them.
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