NUMBER: 15TITLE: Slightly Scandalous
AUTHOR: Mary Balogh
STARTED: March 20, 2005
FINISHED: March 23, 2005
PAGES: 374
GENRE: Romance
FIRST SENTENCE: By the time she went to bed, Lady Freyja Bedwyn was in about as bad a mood as it was possible to be in.
SUMMARY: [From barnesandnoble.com] Meet the Bedwyns... six brothers and sisters men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction... where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal... and where Freyja Bedwyn, the wild-hearted daughter, meets her match in a man as passionate, reckless, and scandalous as she.
Growing up with four unruly brothers has made Freyja Bedwyn far bolder than most society ladies. From feisty manner to long, tumbling hair, Lady Freyja is pure fire, a woman who seeks both adventure and freedom.
Adventure soon finds her on a visit to Bath, when a handsome stranger bursts into Freyja's room and entreats her to hide him. His name is Joshua Moore, Marquess of Hallmere, a man with a hell-raising reputation of his own who is quickly intrigued by the independent beauty. So intrigued, in fact, that he makes her a surprising request: to pose as his fiancee and help thwart his family's matchmaking schemes. For two people determined to be free, it's the perfect plan...until passion blindsides them both. For as Joshua sets out to achieve his complete seduction of Freyja, a woman who has sworn off love is in danger of losing the one thing she never expected to give again: her heart...
REASON FOR READING: In the series... duh.
THOUGHTS: I hate Freya in the first few books. She kinda of grew on me in "her" book... probably because she reminded me of myself. This one of the weaker books in the series but still very good. The "play" between the two main characters was well balanced. Freya was all passion, in everything she does. Joshua was very nonchalant.
The plot revolved around a fake betrothal. That ploy is very overdone but Balogh made her characters interesting enough that it worked. The one-liners were the best part of the book.
MISCELLANEOUS: Shiny cover!
KEEP/SHARE/CRINGE(?): Keep
RATING: 6/10 [Good]
CR: Slightly Tempted by Mary Balogh
RN: Slightly Sinful by Mary Balogh
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