Yet the entire message of how important social standing is and how easily it can be taken away from a family with the slightest whisper is undermined by Christian and Letitia’s quick assumption of an affair. One of the pleasures of reading this series is kind of the insider workings of this powerful and mysterious group. For example, Letitia is a master manipulator of the ton and she strives to teach her sister how planting gossip and refuting it works. The basis of a Laurens book has a lot to do with the knowledge and inner workings of the ton. I had some issues with the construct of the story and the actions of the characters which I felt weren’t consistent with the period or with the type of setting you had created. Christian agrees to help because the embers of his love have only been banked, not totally snuffed out. The true and somewhat unhappy circumstances of Letitia’s marriage become apparent to the reader, although not to Christian when Letitia seeks help for her brother who is accused of murdering her husband. Instead she married another man in a purported love match. The last Bastien Club novel I read was last year’s release, Beyond Seduction.Ĭhristian Allardyce had left for on a mission and Lady Letitia Randall nee Vaux had promised to wait for him. There’s a certain, well, similarity between your novels and while your writing is quite good, sometime the stories seem to be copies (and not in the plagiaristic sense, but in the sense that the characters often seem interchangeable from book to book). I’ve taking to reading a Laurens book every other release because I find that a year is a good buffer between books. Jane B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews murder / Regency England / romantic-suspense / Stephanie-Laurens 13 Comments AugREVIEW: Edge of Desire by Stephanie Laurens
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