Seduction

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Summary: A fun, lighthearted read........
Review: This is my second book by Amanda Quick...DEFINITELY not my last...what a charming Story..I love a fast paced read with silliness and sexiness combined..and "Seduction" was just what I was in the mood for. I really enjoyed Julian and Sophy..I thought it was fabulous how she never backed down...I'm on the lookout for Anne and Daregate's story next! This really is a sweet book...I would reccomend it.

Rating:
Summary: A fun, lighthearted read........
Review: This is my second book by Amanda Quick...DEFINITELY not my last...what a charming Story..I love a fast paced read with silliness and sexiness combined..and "Seduction" was just what I was in the mood for. I really enjoyed Julian and Sophy..I thought it was fabulous how she never backed down...I'm on the lookout for Anne and Daregate's story next! This really is a sweet book...I would reccomend it.

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Summary: Delightfull!!!
Review: This is one of Miss Quick's best books and as always it is very easy to fall in love with her characters and identify with them as they encounter the joys, struggles, and hardships of love. My only "complaint" to Miss Quick is that she made me long for a sequel to this book, in which she deals with the Ravenwood's best friends,Lord Deargate and Miss Silverthorn, whose mysterious relationship leave you longing to know more about what will eventually happen between them. And also as is the case with such memorable characters as Julian and Sophie, it is no hardship to hear about them again. Once more I repeat that this is a great book and it supplies a joyous afternoon of reading.

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Summary: Historically Ridiculous, but SO Much Fun
Review: This is the first and so far only "romance" novel I have ever read. And I enjoyed myself hugely. Like many others, I did not stop reading until I had finished the last page, at three in the morning. What prompted me to read it was the feminist angle; that Sophy read Wollenstonecraft. The feminism was marvelous. My favorite manifestation of this feminism was Sophy's ability to defend herself, first from Julian's attempt to pressure her into consumating their marriage, and secondly from Waycott's (much more serious) attempt to rape her, through the use of drugging their tea. Julian is very Byronic, but Quick makes him sympathetic despite his very obvious flaws by the genuine shame and remorse he feels when he mistakenly thinks that he has raped and seriously hurt his wife, and the fact that by the end of the book, he shows that he accepts her (within limits) as his equal, by letting her be "on top" when they make love. I am a scholar of Victorian history. As such, I know that too many women endured the fate that Sophy manages to defeat, but I send my historical intellect on holiday while I read and reread this book, giving myself up to the enjoyment of a husband and wife who manage to find love, equality, and understanding.

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Summary: Hated it and here's why:
Review: What happened to the Amanda Quick novels that we have grown tolove? (ie. Seduction, Surrender, Scandal...) Recent Quickpublications are just not what they used to be. However "Seduction" is by far one of Quick's masterpieces. I have read this novel probably about twenty times and everytime I read it I am thrilled. This is feminism at work! Sophy is a "blue-stocking" who has read voraciously the works of Mary Wolstencraft; she challenges a high society harlot to a duel in order to empower herself and prove that male "honor" is dead; she holds her body and her spirit above bartering her soul for materialistic comforts. Sophy is a heroine, but always a woman. She is an example that feminism is not the raging woman seeking power but the improvement of life for oneself and gender. Furthermore, Quick employs a witty rhetoric that allows even the most daft of readers to appreciate her sense of humour and view on life. There is not much more that I can say except that those who have not read Quick's early works, especially "Seduction" do not know what they are missing. Like the quote on the back of the book, "I consumed Seduction like a valentine box of chocolates, in one sitting, and thoroughly enjoyed it!"

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Summary: Amanda Quick at Her Best!
Review: What happened to the Amanda Quick novels that we have grown tolove? (ie. Seduction, Surrender, Scandal...) Recent Quickpublications are just not what they used to be. However "Seduction" is by far one of Quick's masterpieces. I have read this novel probably about twenty times and everytime I read it I am thrilled. This is feminism at work! Sophy is a "blue-stocking" who has read voraciously the works of Mary Wolstencraft; she challenges a high society harlot to a duel in order to empower herself and prove that male "honor" is dead; she holds her body and her spirit above bartering her soul for materialistic comforts. Sophy is a heroine, but always a woman. She is an example that feminism is not the raging woman seeking power but the improvement of life for oneself and gender. Furthermore, Quick employs a witty rhetoric that allows even the most daft of readers to appreciate her sense of humour and view on life. There is not much more that I can say except that those who have not read Quick's early works, especially "Seduction" do not know what they are missing. Like the quote on the back of the book, "I consumed Seduction like a valentine box of chocolates, in one sitting, and thoroughly enjoyed it!"