Showing posts with label scandal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scandal. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 May 2015

#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in May 8 2015 and Scandal - Carolyn Jewel


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Sat: Stomach virus
Sun: tried a 15 min walk
Mon: 40 min walk
Tue: 14 km bike (I had to get a book from the library..HAD TO ;)
Wed: 4 km bike only, felt fatigued again
Thu: 8 km bike, 1 h zumba (last zumba and I had no real energy :(
Fri: 4 km bike, 30 min walk

Spring is truly here, even some summer flowers have been blooming, way too early. As for the week, not good. I had a stomach virus and felt it for many days.



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The earl of Banallt is a reformed rake determined to win the heart of the only woman he’s ever loved. 

Two years after the death of her husband, Sophie Mercer Evans still has no use for Banallt. It’s true she knows him better than anyone, and that’s why she'll never forgive him his past and the mortal insult he dealt her. And yet, when her life is falling apart, it’s Banallt who stands by her. 

My thoughts:
Sophie was different in a way. She was a widow, ok nothing new there. But the thing was that she was really in love with her husband. Ok nothing new there. BUT he husband seduced her at 17, they eloped, her family cut her off. He constantly cheated on her and was away all the time. He used all her money, and still, she loved him. Ok, you were kind of an idiot there, but then again love makes fools of us all.

Banallt was a scoundrel. He was a womanizer. He said he was in love with his wife and he still cheated on her.Ugh. We will get back to that later.

What I did not like about this book was the flashbacks. Fine, there were dates, but when I am reading I am reeeeading, so I was all what, is this the past, future, present? Arghhhhh. They did not work, and they made no sense. It would have been better if they had all been at the beginning, or when we met them both.

But if I do not think about them I did like the story. She did not want Banallt. He wanted her from the first time they met. She was married then, he wanted to F everything that walked.

There was tension, and I even almost, only almost, cried at a time. I had not expected that.

When they did finally end up together I felt it was too fast, the HEA, not the stuff they did before. Also sure he said he had changed, but why for her? He said he loved his dead wife too. Do I believe he wont stray? Not really. Does she, not really.

Conclusion:
But I enjoyed it, though I could totally have done without the flashbacks. 

Cover
do I even have to tell you

Kindle Edition, 388 pages
Published May 31st 2012 (first published January 23rd 2009)
Historical romance
Own

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Thursday, 8 January 2015

Prelude to a scandal - Delilah Marvelle

Lady Justine is willing to trade her good name, her reputation and her place in London's gossip-hungry ton to secure her father's release from prison. But when the notorious Duke of Bradford counters her offer with a proposal of marriage, the stakes grow higher still. For while the smoldering lord is famous for his conquests, the man is oblivious to both her devotion and her charms. And Justine is soon afraid she has wagered all for naught. 

My thoughts:
I was going through a "no wow books for a while" spell and the only cure for that is cute and light historical romance. Nothing gets my spirits up like balls, the ton and silly dramas.

But this one was actually different. Our hero is a rake (ha nothing new there), but the author calls him in a pre word a sex-addict and does everything to show just that. He really can't keep it in his pants.

Our heroine is desperate. Her father is in jail cos he wrote an essay about how animals are gay, so should humans be able to be. No no, that is bad in this era, you could get hanged for that! So therefore she is desperate to get him out and she does know this rakish Duke.

They marry. They have issues. His issue is of course he wants to do it all the time and he tries to restrain himself. Her issues is that she wants love and to talk about things.

Plus insert drama with his brother's pregnant mistress and the reason why our Duke has a scar.

It did have another feel to it. Sure some things were silly but I wanted that. Sure they were idiots at times, but hey, fun. 

Fun

Cover
Good, but nothing new
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Mass Market Paperback, 376 pages
Published December 21st 2010 by HQN Books
Scandal #1
Historical romance
Own

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