Seduced

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Summary: SO MUCH FUN!
Review: SO MUCH FUN! Loved this fun regency romp by Britton. The characters were fabulous. They made me laugh and made me cry. Britton really knows how to write a great hero -- okay, I'll admit it -- I would get in line for Lucien. He makes debauchery look soooo good.

Even if you don't love historicals, this is a story that will make you feel good all over!

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Summary: SO MUCH FUN!
Review: SO MUCH FUN! Loved this fun regency romp by Britton. The characters were fabulous. They made me laugh and made me cry. Britton really knows how to write a great hero -- okay, I'll admit it -- I would get in line for Lucien. He makes debauchery look soooo good.

Even if you don't love historicals, this is a story that will make you feel good all over!

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Summary: Kindred souls succomb to the chemistry of fire meets fire!
Review: The setting is Regency London, turn of the 19th century. The heroine is a confident, intelligent beauty, aware of who she is and who she isn't, what she wants and whom she never wants to set eyes on again. The hero is a rogue, rumored to have shot his brother for a dukedom. Maligned from a young age, and cursed to loose all that he loves, he accepts his title of notorious rake. It is rumored to love him is to die.

Elizabeth wants nothing to do with him and tries to keep away. Naturally he is drawn to the dark haired, beautiful outcast, the one woman who is strong enough to publicly distain him. Initially, she's a challenge, something to fill his empty life. Truthfully, he cannot forget the chemistry of their first encounter. He senses a kindred soul, and he couldn't be more correct.

Lucien is the rake we all love to read about and empathize, and Elizabeth is his mirror image, both strong of heart and spirit. She struggles with this alchemy all the way to the altar, and their marriage becomes a scintillating battle. I really enjoyed the bickering because she was always so serious, and he toyed with her thinking he was the grand seducer. Being a woman of enormous pride, she finally submits only when imprisoned by passion and in turn, seduces him. Now Elizabeth must face her passion just as Lucien is taken from her. As strongly as she fought the ties that bound them together, now she must loose everything to save him from his past and himself.

I really enjoyed this story. The strength of this book was the well-written dialogue. The story isn't anything complicated, but it's worth the time to read because the characters are so honest and matched. Instead of the chemistry of opposites attracting, this one is fire meets fire. The book was one I couldn't put down and lingered long after I was finished! Ms. Britton is truly a wonderful writer. Do yourself a favor and become Seduced!


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Summary: I love you, I hate you-romance which gets a bit tiresome
Review: The story actually has a very promising beginning: Headstrong beauty with plans to marry only for love meets dangerous rogue, rumoured to have shot his heir for a dukedom. They dislike each other passionately at first sight. Yet because of a compromising situation the duke is forced to marry Elizabeth. She refuses to bed him, though and of course the duke rises to the challenge and tries to seduce her. Quite conventional and somewhat hackneyed but I admit I love that plot!

Elizabeth make a compelling heroine with enough spine and flaws to make her interesting. Lucien is the classic bad boy, but not of the unredeemable sort. He's never abusive to Elizabeth or too manipulative.

However the couple (at least for my taste) needs much too long to get closer together and to develop sweeter feelings beyond mere sexual attraction and an initial, reluctant infatuation. After such a long time of patient waiting for some romantic and loving interaction (It's supposed to be a romance after all!) their first actual intimate encounter was quite disappointing for me, too loveless, violent and frantic to make up for the lack of romantic interaction. Instead of armorous talk the hero even curses the heroine in between (the most unrealistic deflowering scene I ever read-even considering that it takes place in a romance which are per se unrealistic in that respect!)

And even after that unromantic coupling there's not much sweet and romantic love to be found to make up for it and the end is somewhat rushed.

Only worth your time if you love bickering couples who are at cross purpose most of the time, with a tortured hero constantly distrusting his feelings, compulsively trying to avoid emotional and physical intimacy with the heroine most of the time .

It might be a good romance for people who love angsty romances but after my high expectations at the beginning it was a letdown for me.

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Summary: WONDERFUL!!!
Review: This book was amazing i couldn't put it down. I read it in one day. This book takes you on a emotional journey in regency england. Read this book and you won't regret it

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Summary: Could have gotten five stars...
Review: This book was on its way to a 5 star review from me, but the author cheated me out of a true "love" scene. Yes, there was a well-written sex scene, but the characters were only acting out of lust at that point. I assumed I would get a glorious, tender encounter made special by their admission of love for one another, but alas, I did not. So I docked a star for that disappointment. Other than that, the hero and heroine both have compelling personalities and the author has written some terrific dialogue for them. So I still recommend the novel, but if you need the couple to truly make love at some point, you won't get it here.

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Summary: A Wonderful Read!!
Review: This is my first book by Pamela Britton and I definitely want to read more from this wonderful author! I enjoyed reading it from the very first sentence and did not want to see it end.

Lucien St. Aubyn is called by most the Duke of Death, because of the rumors that say to be near him means your death and that he murdered his brother for the dukedom. Elizabeth Montclair is a daughter of an earl who has always felt unwelcome by society. She vows to marry only for love. The first time Lucien and Elizabeth meet, their dislike of eachother is immediate and causes sparks to fly.

I especially enjoyed the bantering that Lucien and Elizabeth indulged in. The way they tried to one-up eachother had me laughing out loud in many scenes. The sense of humor that these two characters had was wonderful. The sexual tension between them was very hot and the love scenes made my heart beat faster.

If you're looking for a fun, wonderful love story, don't miss this book!

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Summary: WOW 1st book I have read by Pamela Britton!
Review: This is probably the best book I have read so far this year! It is funny and witty and dramatic and sad. It is an all around great book! What makes it even more amazing is that I read in Romantic Times magazine that her old publisher dumped her and didn't want this book! ... I am going to go back and read her other books - she is an amazing author!

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Summary: Romance....and Laughter
Review: this is the best romance book that i have read. i'm a voracious reader...and have read every type that you can think of. if you want to enjoy romance, settings and characters, but with a good helping of laughs, this is the book. very rarely can a book move me to laugh out loud....this one did SEVERAL times. a must buy!

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Summary: An interesting read but the title is misleading
Review: This was not a bad book, though I found the humor and the parenthetical sentences, and the authorial stance with the whole first chapter introducing the hero and heroine in a very laboured manner, very off putting.

The main problem with the book is that Elizabeth is never seduced at all. A couple of moderately warm scenes and 'a first time together scene' worthy of only the worst in 'romance' are totally forgettable. Tying up virgins and abandoning them without a word of explanation is really not the way to their heart. There isn't enough heat between them to sustain these scenes. A romance is the hero and heroine falling in love, not arguing continually and talking about nothing but sex (which they never do!)

Lucien is also completely inconsistent at times and there are big gaps in the story re the pirates and the death of his brother. Our heroine is a worthy match for him, but Elizabeth is apt to be far too changeable at times.

The comedy is clever and witty one minute, downright vulgar the next. This would have been a much better book without it on the whole; after what Lucien has been through the brooding hero in the ruined castle is more consistent than the man who decides to ruin her reputation at a ball because he is bored, and ends up having to marry her to save both their reputations. Witty repartee is one thing, challenges to seduce the servants (which she does go through with) and detailed descriptions of male anatomy quite another. not to mention deliberately embarrassing each other in public all the time because they have so little respect for one another, especially at their own wedding.

The whole of the book is littered with grammar and punctuation errors, making the whole seem even more slap dash. Ms. Britton writes with verve but she loses sight of what she is writing and the style and tone swings are far too glaring to make this a smooth easy read. She has some interesting and sexy characters and does not need to try so hard to make them so with feathers and powdered sugar and bananas. It just doesn't work. And has been done far better elsewhere, lots of times before.

One final point-most of the action takes place over 2 days on their honeymoon-all of her anguish and love is just not believable given the extent to which she and he hardly know each other.

Having said that I really like Lucien despite the flaws in the writing and his character, though the whole is he a rake or not was really not handled very well or clearly at all. I would love to have seen some real intimacy between them in the epilogue. On the whole, an entertaining read, but I hope the next book will be a lot better.