Showing posts with label Julia London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julia London. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

The Scoundrel and the Debutante by Julia London

The Scoundrel and the Debutante (The Cabot Sisters, #3)Prudence Cabot's older sisters both married amid clouds of scandal. So she decides to get the heck out of dodge.  But, rather than travel with the chaperones she was supposed to meet, she decides to follow the handsome American who she sees on the road. More than a bit of a departure for the girl who was supposed to be the family's sensible sister.
Roan Mattheson is not in England by choice. He's following his wayward and headstrong sister. Yes, he thinks Prudence is attractive but he's not quite sure how he ended up being pulled into the adventures that Prudence is trying to find.
Prudence was a bit over-the top at times and Roan was a little bit too much of a hero. But I overall enjoyed the book.

The book comes out April 28th and if you enjoyed the other books in this series, I know you will like this one as well.

Follows: Devil Takes a Bride

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Perfect Homecoming by Julia Lonon

23167180Well. This is certainly going to be a divisive book. The heroine is not very likable. Correction, she's just not likable at all. She's confrontational, not a people person, and a kleptomaniac boot. Notice that I didn't comment on her sleeping with around. Frankly, her lack of feeling guilty attached to that was the thing I like most about her.
Yes, we know that she took the medal that Cooper Jessup is looking for but there's this prolonged dance around the subject.
Cooper... was okay. But a little too perfect. I do like a hero with flaws.
I generally like Julia London and I think that it's awesome that she took on the task of trying to create an unlikable character that we could relate to. But I just never really connected with either the hero or the heroine.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Devil Takes a Bride by Julia London

Grace is one of the most eligible heiresses out this season. Or... she was. Once word of her mother's madness gets out, their family is going to be shunned. That's why she's making one last bid for respectability. By being really, really bad. Except that she catches the wrong brother in her trap. While Amherst is a congenial escort who loves society as much as Grace, his brother is ... not a nice man. Especially according to Amherst. So Grace is mortified to have caught him instead.
Jefferson has no interest in Grace. Except that he has too much interest in this woman. She is his living fantasy (and he has a LOT of those that we see) but he can't connect with her. He is either scarred by his abusive father's actions or a little on the Aspberger's scale (he likes things to be even, is obsessed with the number 8, etc.) Also, he just doesn't like society very much.
For her part, Grace is trying very hard to make the best of the mess that she put herself in. She's trying to understand what is going on in her husband's head but can't figure out why he's so distant. I LOVED that she actually just kept talking to him about it, though. There was no Big Misunderstanding just because the main characters never sat down and talked.
The story was a little two "happy ever after" what with Jefferson's many tics being overcome by "twu lurv" and very little else. Also, I didn't love that it seemed like Jefferson made all the concessions in their relationship. But overall, I liked the characters, I liked the pacing, and the story.

Followed by: The Scoundrel and the Debutante

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

One Mad Night by Julia London

This was an okay story which is a surprise given the fact that I didn't particularly like either of the characters.
Chelsea is an ad exec who is certain she's going to nail the new Tesla presentation and get the account. As long as she can overcome the new wonderboy, Ian, who was lured in from another company and has snagged more than one of the accounts that she should have gotten. Now they're going head-to-head for the latest account. Only, she's been trapped inside the office because of a Snowpocalypse and she's there with... guess who? Sexy times follow.
I had quite a few issues with the story but it was overall okay and a fast read. It came out on January 1, 2015.