Secret Ways

Rating:
Summary: Boring
Review: Courtesy of Love Romances

Vermillion Lee Durant is approaching nineteen and it is time for her to choose a protector among her admirers. An orphan at the age of four, her aunt Gabriella took Vermillion under her wing and trained her to be the third generation of Durant courtesans. Vermillion doesn't like herself to be the seductive 'Vermillion' but the plain 'Lee' who dressed like a lad and rides like the wind on her horse.

Captain Caleb Tanner tries to catch a traitor and suspects that the Durant women are selling information to the French. By arrangement, he works undercover as the head groom in the Durant's stable to observe the people and the activities within the Parklands estates.

Caleb believes that 'Vermillion' is a seductress and a power-hungry female until he meets 'Lee'. The more he gets to know 'Lee', the more he wants her. As the head groom at Parklands, he has no way to get inside the house to search and find evidence that he wants. When Vermillion's birthday comes near, he can't stand the idea of Vermillion having another man to be her first protector other than himself.

SECRET WAYS is an exciting tale full of action, suspense and romance. As always, Ms Martin is comfortable in penning sensual romantic love scenes that never disappoint and leave readers breathless. Moreover, the leading couple are delightful and the investigation adds a certain spice to keep readers turning the page. Another enjoyable read that fans and readers of Kat Martin's books must not miss!

Rating:
Summary: exciting suspensful tale
Review: Courtesy of Love Romances

Vermillion Lee Durant is approaching nineteen and it is time for her to choose a protector among her admirers. An orphan at the age of four, her aunt Gabriella took Vermillion under her wing and trained her to be the third generation of Durant courtesans. Vermillion doesn't like herself to be the seductive 'Vermillion' but the plain 'Lee' who dressed like a lad and rides like the wind on her horse.

Captain Caleb Tanner tries to catch a traitor and suspects that the Durant women are selling information to the French. By arrangement, he works undercover as the head groom in the Durant's stable to observe the people and the activities within the Parklands estates.

Caleb believes that 'Vermillion' is a seductress and a power-hungry female until he meets 'Lee'. The more he gets to know 'Lee', the more he wants her. As the head groom at Parklands, he has no way to get inside the house to search and find evidence that he wants. When Vermillion's birthday comes near, he can't stand the idea of Vermillion having another man to be her first protector other than himself.

SECRET WAYS is an exciting tale full of action, suspense and romance. As always, Ms Martin is comfortable in penning sensual romantic love scenes that never disappoint and leave readers breathless. Moreover, the leading couple are delightful and the investigation adds a certain spice to keep readers turning the page. Another enjoyable read that fans and readers of Kat Martin's books must not miss!

Rating:
Summary: Not Her Best!!
Review: I enjoyed the heck out of "The Fire Inside" and "Fanning the Flame". In fact, I was leery of reading Ms. Martin's contemporary books, but was pleasantly surprised there.

This book is a bit of a mess. I'm pretty good at suspending belief. It did bother me that the heroine was 18 at the start and celebrated her 19th birthday during the course of the story, but I perservered anyway. However, I fell from my suspension with a bang when I read that she'd purchased a house 2 years before and filled it with unwed mothers. Wait a minute! That would mean she was 16 at the time she did this. In Regency England, no less. I don't think so! It would next to impossible for a 16-year-old in this day and time to do such a thing. Granted she was rich and was given a lot of leeway. But still....

After that, I found some other discrepencies which spelled very slopping editing and I just couldn't get back into the story. Not a keeper for me. However, I hope that Ms. Martin will recover from this and give us stories about Caleb's brothers, Luc and Christian. Plus a story about the intriguing Mark Sutton. Hope springs eternal for me.

Rating:
Summary: Not Her Best!!
Review: I enjoyed the heck out of "The Fire Inside" and "Fanning the Flame". In fact, I was leery of reading Ms. Martin's contemporary books, but was pleasantly surprised there.

This book is a bit of a mess. I'm pretty good at suspending belief. It did bother me that the heroine was 18 at the start and celebrated her 19th birthday during the course of the story, but I perservered anyway. However, I fell from my suspension with a bang when I read that she'd purchased a house 2 years before and filled it with unwed mothers. Wait a minute! That would mean she was 16 at the time she did this. In Regency England, no less. I don't think so! It would next to impossible for a 16-year-old in this day and time to do such a thing. Granted she was rich and was given a lot of leeway. But still....

After that, I found some other discrepencies which spelled very slopping editing and I just couldn't get back into the story. Not a keeper for me. However, I hope that Ms. Martin will recover from this and give us stories about Caleb's brothers, Luc and Christian. Plus a story about the intriguing Mark Sutton. Hope springs eternal for me.

Rating:
Summary: Secret Way to save money--don't buy this book
Review: I typically enjoy all of Kat Martin's books, but man this is the first I almost gave up on. Usually her books hook me within the first few chapters, but this one didn't happen for me until about halfway. I'm not a horse person, so the whole horse stable thing did not grab me in the least. I just about gave up, and finally... and boy do I mean FINALLY, did the book pick up speed. I was so close to just sticking the book on the shelf. I read books very fast. This one normally would take me less than a day, but I nursed this book for over a week. I even put it down to pick up a different book and finished that before returning to it. If you want a good Kat Martin book, get Fanning the Flame or The Dream or just about any other. I've just started Devil's Prize and it already has me. Wished I picked that one up first.

Rating:
Summary: slow starter
Review: I typically enjoy all of Kat Martin's books, but man this is the first I almost gave up on. Usually her books hook me within the first few chapters, but this one didn't happen for me until about halfway. I'm not a horse person, so the whole horse stable thing did not grab me in the least. I just about gave up, and finally... and boy do I mean FINALLY, did the book pick up speed. I was so close to just sticking the book on the shelf. I read books very fast. This one normally would take me less than a day, but I nursed this book for over a week. I even put it down to pick up a different book and finished that before returning to it. If you want a good Kat Martin book, get Fanning the Flame or The Dream or just about any other. I've just started Devil's Prize and it already has me. Wished I picked that one up first.

Rating:
Summary: Boring
Review: I usually read a book this size in two days max. It's been three weeks now, and I still have a way to go. I keep stalling because the plot keeps repeating: sexy spyman lusts after girl and is determined to have her, girl develops hots for sexy spyman and wonders if... Repeat cycle ad nauseum. Add lazy writing (he "went painfully hard" over and over again), nothing inspiring at all in the words, flat stereotype characters, and, well, boring.

Rating:
Summary: So bad I couldn't read it
Review: I was so bored and aggravated with this boring, boring, repetitive book that I threw it out the bedroom door across the hall in disgust. Don't waste your time or money on this one. I gave it only one star because I couldn't give it zero to submit this opinion.

I don't intend to buy any more books by this author, even at the half-price paperback store where I got this one.

Rating:
Summary: So bad I couldn't read it
Review: I was so bored and aggravated with this boring, boring, repetitive book that I threw it out the bedroom door across the hall in disgust. Don't waste your time or money on this one. I gave it only one star because I couldn't give it zero to submit this opinion.

I don't intend to buy any more books by this author, even at the half-price paperback store where I got this one.

Rating:
Summary: Not her best
Review: I've read just about all of Kat Martin's historical novels and have enjoyed most of them. This is the exception. From the start I found the storyline and love story between Vermillion (Lee) and Caleb boring. Nothing caught my interest and I found myself disliking the characters. One thing I must say is I get tired of stories where the man thinks the woman is *unpure* and treats her bad as a result. I want a love story, not a story where the characters beat eachother up verbally.