NUMBER: 16TITLE: Slightly Tempted
AUTHOR: Mary Balogh
STARTED: March 23, 2005
FINISHED: March 26, 2005
PAGES: 356
GENRE: Romance
FIRST SENTENCE: It still felt somewhat strange to be part of a gathering of the crème de la crème of English society again and to hear the English language spoken by virtually everyone.
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 Morgan Bedwyn, the willful youngest daughter, discovers that true love is a temptation no woman can - or should - resist.
Young. Ravishing. Exquisitely marriageable. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent's most notorious rake. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself...until one night of shocking intimacy erupts in a scandal that could make Gervase's vengeance all the sweeter. There is only one thing standing in his way: Morgan, who has achieved the impossible - she's melted his coolly guarded heart. For Gervase, only the marriage bed will do, but Morgan simply will not have him. Thus begins a sizzling courtship where two wary hearts are about to be undone by the most scandalous passion of all: glorious, all-consuming love.
REASON FOR READING: In the series... almost done.
THOUGHTS: The plot on this one was iffy (though it did kind of make fun of the French and that entertained me). The characters, however, were quite good. I think that is Balogh's strongest talent. She knows how to write characters that you like or love to hate. However, she could work on the names. Gervase? Come on.
MISCELLANEOUS: Two books left in the series. Boo.
KEEP/SHARE/CRINGE(?): Keep
RATING: 7/10 [Very Good]
CR: Slightly Sinful by Mary Balogh
RN: Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh
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