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Seduction”! For other stops on her
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Three Lessons in Seduction
by Sofie Darling
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GENRE: Historical Romance
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BLURB:
Lord
Nicholas Asquith needs his wife. Too bad he broke her heart ten years ago.
Can he resist a second chance at the love he lost?
When
Mariana catches the eye of the man at the center of an assassination plot, Nick
puts aside their painful past and enlists her to obtain information by any
means necessary, even if it means seducing the enemy agent.
Even if the thought makes his blood boil.
Only
by keeping his distance from Mariana these last ten years was he able to
pretend indifference to her. With every moment spent with her, he feels his
tightly held control slipping…
Can she trust the spy who broke her heart?
Mariana
spent the last decade forgetting Nick. Now she has the chance to best him at
his own game, an opportunity she can’t resist, even as her view of him begins
to shift. Increasingly, she wants nothing more than to seduce her own husband…
It’s
only a matter of time before mad passion ignites, a passion never convincingly
extinguished. A passion that insists on surrendering to the yearning of the
flesh and, quite possibly, of the heart.
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EXCERPT ONE:
“Unbutton
your dress?” Nick repeated. It wasn’t possible he’d heard those words in that order.
“Have
you spent a single minute of your life bound within layers of corset, shift,
and tightly buttoned dress? Has this ever been required for one of your spy
missions?”
He
couldn’t miss the scorn in her voice. “Never.”
“Then
you’ll have to trust me when I suggest that it’s a bloody fantastic idea for
you to unbutton me. You’ve done it before, in case you’ve forgotten.”
“I
haven’t,” he said, his voice incapable of more than a low, gravelly rumble.
She
blinked, and a moment passed.
Reason
bade Nick exit the room and abandon the entire proposition. Under no
circumstance should he close the distance between them and place his hands on
Mariana’s body. Paper thin layers of chartreuse silk and muslin between his
fingers and her skin wouldn’t be enough.
A
few quick steps could carry him to her.
A
few quick steps could undo him.
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REVIEW:
This
book was a fun, charming, intriguing, and entertaining historical romance read!
This
book is set in 1824 and is about Nick and Mariana, an estranged husband and wife that rarely keep
in contact after their split over a decade ago.
However, when Mariana receives a letter stating that her husband is
missing and presumed dead she fleas to Paris to help find him or bring home his
body.
Mariana
is relieved when she learns that Nick is actually alive. It turns out that Nick is a spy and when his
mission got dicey he had to go into hiding.
Nick has been trying to get his job back on track, but he’s been missing
something, and Mariana might just be the key to pulling off his mission and
derailing a huge assassination plot.
Nick
teaches Mariana the art of seduction as it becomes her assignment to get close
to the guy Nick thinks is pulling the strings of the assassination. As Nick and Mariana work closely together, it
is obvious that these two still have that chemistry and spark. The longer these two are together the passion
continues to heat up and it isn’t long before they both forget why they ever
separated in the first place.
I
really liked the beautiful Paris setting.
Paris has been on my travel bucket list for years, so I love reading
books that take place there. The author
did a lovely job describing the details the made the scene settings very easy
to picture.
For the
most part I enjoyed the characters. I
honestly liked Mariana more than Nick. I
really wanted to like Nick and by the end of the book he had won me over a bit
more than at the start of the book.
However, I still found him selfish and irresponsible for abandoning his
wife and children, so he could play spy.
If I had been Mariana I’m not so sure I could or even want to just drop
everything to go looking for my loser ex in Paris to see if he’s alive or not. Then having found out that he is fine and now he wants me
to stay and help him even further. I don’t
think I could ever forgive and forget so easily. Plus, I felt for such a strong character that Mariana
was I don’t think she would have either.
I think she would have been more reserved and guarded with Nick and less
trusting than she actually was with him.
I
really enjoyed the mystery, suspense, adventure, and intrigue of the background storyline assassination plot. It definitely
upped the ante on the historical romance and added a dramatic flair that kept
me guessing trying to solve the case.
I
like that this book does focus on second chances and new beginnings. I strongly believe in those, but I think
people need to earn them or at least try to show that they are making an effort
to make that change.
I
found the pace of the book to be mostly steady with a few slower passages at
times. This book is listed at 267 pages
and for the most part it is a quick read.
However, I felt some of the scenes dragged out a bit and could have
easily been whittled down or cut.
Unfortunately,
I was shocked to find quite a few spelling errors throughout the book – one even
in the blurb. I know errors happen, but
it is somewhat distracting from such an entertaining story.
All
in all, there were just a few hang-ups for me, but overall, I enjoyed reading
this book and would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, charming,
intriguing, entertaining, historical romance with an added mystery and suspense
bonus!
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AUTHOR BIO:
Sofie spent much of her twenties raising two
boys and reading every book she could get her hands on. Once she realized that
she was no longer satisfied with simply reading the books she loved, that she
must write them, too, she decided to finish her degree and embark on a writing
career. Mr. Darling and the boys gave her their wholehearted blessing.
When
she’s not writing heroes who make her swoon, she runs a marathon in a different
state every year, visits crumbling medieval castles whenever she gets a chance,
and enjoys a slightly codependent relationship with her beagle, Bosco.
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