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To Seduce a Sinner: Library Edition (The Legend of the Four Soldiers Series) Review

It's rare that I find a book I can't put down but To Seduce A Sinner kept me up all last night - what a great read! This sensuous tale speaks strongly to the healing power of love without being heavy-handed. Hoyt's characters are beautifully crafted with wit and flaws. Even the supporting cast is multi-dimensional enough to remain memorable and leave me wanting more. Watching Melisande and Jasper struggle to find a balance between their differing personalities, expectations, and experiences is a treat. Hoyt provides a nice blend of humor, steamy sex, and dramatic conflicts. I particularly enjoyed Melisande's character. She started out so bland (which worried me) but she quickly grew in depth. I loved that she started to gain the upper hand in their relationship, without any trite manipulations. I also especially appreciated the accurate scenes true to a marriage of convenience, including their first awkward (and lacking) sexual encounter and the inappropriate gift that follows. I do agree with previous reviewers that the language used in some of the sex scenes was giggle-inspiring but the sensuality makes up for it. The side stories involving Pynch & Sally and Alistair & Helen (whose romance continues in Hoyt's To Beguile a Beast) contribute to the tale rather than providing a distraction. All in all, a wonderful read.

To Seduce a Sinner: Library Edition (The Legend of the Four Soldiers Series) Overview

Jasper Renshaw, Viscount Vale, has a problem: he needs to marry and produce an heir to the title. All Jasper wants is to find a lady who will put up with him long enough to wed so he can retreat to his life of debauchery--a life that keeps the haunting memories of his past at bay. Knowing that Jasper is under pressure to marry, Melisande Flemming grasps her fate with both hands and volunteers to wed him. Although Jasper is initially only interested in producing an heir, he soon becomes entranced by his wife--prim and proper by day, wanton by night-- and vows to learn her secrets.

Melissande, however, is determined to keep her husband at a distance. She has loved, and lost, before, and will do anything to keep him from learning her terrible weakness: she's secretly been in love with him for years. But to her chagrin, her husband pursues her, wooing her as if she were a paramour, not his lady wife. As Melissande and Jasper embark on a passionate game of cat and mouse, secrets from the past begin to resurface.... threatening to tear them asunder.

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Slow development of romance, kinda dull - RomReader -
Plain-looking 28-yr-old non-virgin spinster proposes marriage to flippant but emotionally-scarred rakish war hero who she's been in love with for 6 yrs right after he was jilted by his fiance. But heroine doesn't want him to know about her love for fear of going through the pain of rejection again like shed did after being rejected by her ex-fiance 10 yrs prior. Hero becomes attracted to heroine later during their marriage after she sets out to seduce him but he's reticent about his war trauma b/c of how its still affecting him.

I've only read & loved Hoyt's previous Prince books. I did not love this book. This book was slower-paced & not as riveting as her other ones. The romance was just not very engaging or exciting. It lacked the hot sexual chemistry & passion of Hoyt's older books. The characters seemed emotionally distant from each other until the last half of the book. The writing is still good though.

Partially recommended.

A mixed bag of tricks (Laughing Jack not included) - J. Stevenson - Southwest US
There were times I scratched my head while reading this: why, exactly, did Melisande love Jasper so much? Does "a look" justify SIX YEARS of waiting in the wings for a person? And what if one of the original brides hadn't cleared the way for Melisande?

Jasper's character, on the other hand, was a little easier to understand. Clearly a sensitive man with demons but (thankfully) nowhere near a saint. The way he accepted Melisande initially in such an offhanded manner was understandable and in sync with his character.

The second half of the book was definitely the "good stuff" and the ending was satisfactory without being too sappy. We can only hope that one day Jasper will sleep in a bed!

I must admit this story would've rated fewer stars without the Laughing Jack installments. These were such a wonderful addition to the story and I hurried through a few chapters just to read about Jack's next adventure!

Unbelievably Cheesy Hero, Language So Lame, Humor Horrible! - Lily Bart - The House of Mirth
I read THE LEOPARD PRINCE and was blown away, so when I had the chance to order a Large Print copy of this book from my library I was really excited.

Boy was I let down!

I know that many romance readers love the old-fashioned Regency hero, the kind who is always nursing a hangover and trading dry witticisms with his valet. But this Jasper guy bored me to tears! He is the most shallow, smug guy I have ever seen in a romance. And there is NO connection between his limp, dandified lifestyle and the supposed "trauma" of his combat experiences.

What makes it so grating to read this book is not so much the plot, or even the characters, but the "humor" that is squeezed into every paragraph. It's all stuff like, "Jasper chose his shiniest pair of boots, knowing that a man might murder orphans so long as he wore shiny boots to ride in the park." Oh, that's funny, all right. Georgette Heyer, meet Groucho Marx!

The heroine was the usual plain, but loving, but determined type we've all met a thousand, million, zillion times before. That's okay . . . but why would she fall for this yutz? I mean, there was a lame explanation, about his Compassion and Dark Secret, but the man we actually SEE is about as seductive as a drunk flounder.

Elizabeth Hoyt, I think that LEOPARD PRINCE and RAVEN PRINCE were masterpieces that were totally innovative. Please, please don't try to write "traditional" Regencies like this. It is so ewwww!

This whole book just left me going, "WTF?"

It's a Regency expression. It means, "What tremendous folly!"

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