NUMBER: 17TITLE: Slightly Sinful
AUTHOR: Mary Balogh
STARTED: March 26, 2005
FINISHED: March 28, 2005
PAGES: 342
GENRE: Romance
FIRST SENTENCE: Having spent almost all of his twenty-five years in England and therefore isolated from most of the hostilities that had ravaged the rest of Europe since the rise to power of Napoléon Bonaparte, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn, third brother of the Duke of Bewcastle, had no personal experience of pitched battles.
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 Alleyne Bedwyn, the passionate middle son, is cut off from his past - only to find his future with a sinfully beautiful woman he will risk everything to love.
As the fires of war raged around him, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn was thrown from his horse and left for dead - only to awaken in the bedchamber of a ladies' brothel. Suddenly the dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there - yet of one thing he is certain: The angel who nurses him back to health is the woman he vows to make his own. But like him, Rachel York is not who she seems. A lovely young woman caught up in a desperate circumstance, she must devise a scheme to regain her stolen fortune. The dashing soldier she rescued from near-death could be her savior in disguise. There is just one condition: she must pose as his wife - a masquerade that will embroil them in a sinful scandal, where a man and a woman court impropriety with each daring step...with every taboo kiss that can turn passionate strangers into the truest of lovers.
REASON FOR READING: Second to last book in the series.
THOUGHTS: The book in itself was good. After reading the previous one, however, I spent most of my time thinking about how it would end. The tension that carried over from "Slightly Tempted" drove me nuts. The plot on this one was inventive for the "Fake Marriage" romance style. The side characters were the best part of the book. They gave the novel depth. Once again, the one liners were flying. This was perhaps one of the best books in the series.
MISCELLANEOUS: One more to go.
KEEP/SHARE/CRINGE(?): Keep
RATING: 7/10 [Very Good]
CR: Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh
RN: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
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