Rating: 
Summary: Tepid read
Review: The highlight of this book was Lady Scruples, and if the book's main plot had been about this aristocratic tabloid writer, The Art of Seduction would have been a hilarious and sexy read. Instead, it is filled with over the top characters and antics, gaping plot holes and cliched plot devices. The heroine's pain over her unrequited love for the hero would have rang true had we been shown why she felt the way she did about herself instead of being told. The hero was quite dim at times, but his redeeming quality was that he was immune to the villaness' evil doings towards the heroine. If the heroine hadn't spent so much time pouting over how unworthy and unlovely she was for the hero, TAoS would have been an entertaining read. Instead, TAoS forced you to suspend your belief, stretch your patience and have you gnashing your teeth in frustration by the last page.
Rating: 
Summary: 3 1/2 *'s For Ms. George!
Review: This was a fun story where both the hero and heroine share a past (their childhood) and therefore already have an established relationship that changes from childhood friends to perhaps more.Parris and Dominick are wonderful characters with a lot of chemistry between them. I feel that the looks to the past that they share with their reader are sweet and show the groundwork for the romance that is soon to follow and as a result these little memories were a favorite part of mine. Parris has always loved Dominick so she is hurt when a series of events leads up to Doninick proposing to her witch of a sister Annabelle. Rightly so Parris avoids Dominick and after the engagement between Doninick and Annabelle is called off, Dominick joins the army. He leaves without telling Parris goodbye. Eight years later both have grown up a bit more mentally and they find themselves back in each others lives. The feelings that these two shared have not gone away. The entire time Dominick was at war he thought of Parris, and at the same time Parris continued to care and think about Dominick. This of course colors the their future relationship. This is really a story about two people falling back in love with each other. Their history plays a very large part in how they interact with each other. I agree that with some of the other reviews that they had a serious communication problem, and as a result so much left unsaid became more of a problem. Fear not these two finally get their act together and have a happily ever after.
| 
