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The Suitor

af Sandy Hingston

Serier: School for Scandal (2)

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The acclaimed author of How to Kiss a Hero introduces a prim, prideful woman who encounters a rascally rake-and slowly surrenders to a wild and reckless desire.
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This was a fun, unique story. Too often, romances follow a fairly standard plotline (if, indeed, they have any sort of plot), and the heroines and the men with whom they fall in love are often cut from one of three molds. I've never read a romance with a heroine as genuinely uppity and arrogant as Katherine, the heiress to the Duke of Marne. She is truly an abominable woman in the beginning. I almost didn't know if I could finish the book, and that's truly rare for me! I always want to know what happens at the end!

But then...I kinda fell in love with her character. I mean, she was shallow. God, was she shallow. But she was also born in a time period when people truly believed that rank was a benediction from God and meant that you were somehow better than everyone else who was below your rank, that you had a special purpose to uphold some moral code lest civilization fall to pieces. What drivel!

Luckily, our Katherine meets Alain Montclair, a rogue of the highest order. He seduces her and leaves her high and dry, whereupon she chases him to Paris. There she finds that he has been condemned to die and is languishing in the Bastille until his death date. She helps him escape, and the two run off together and become lovers. They lead a peasant's life for several weeks, and Katherine's worldview broadens and changes immeasurably as she is forced to work for their food, keep their house, and live on means very much below her station as a duke's daughter.

Then, through a series of events, she finds herself separated from Alain and betrothed to Lord Dalrymple, a seemingly good man who takes her just as she is, even knowing that she is a fallen woman.

Her relationship with Dalrymple seems to be going swimmingly, though she cannot help but yearn for the days and nights she spent with Alain. Dalrymple seems the perfect gentleman, particularly by Regency standards: he doesn't push her, he courts her by sending her appropriate gifts, and he just seems to be a genuinely nice man. Then, suddenly, he is a priggish fool who believes that women are such an inferior, separate species that even their opinions regarding flowers aren't to be listened to.

That, right there, is why this book didn't get 5 stars from me. The jump between the two personas of Dalrymple was not done well, so much so as to be unbelievable.

Through a series of events, Katherine learns that her Alain was not a pig and was, in fact, somewhat of a hero. When he crashes her wedding to Dalrymple, she leaves in a most spectacular fashion, and the two begin their life together.

There are, of course, aspects of this that are fairly similar to other romances. But the characters were fairly original (after all, how many Regency romances have you ever read where one of the supporting characters was a female teenager interested in medicine who had the support of the local doctor, who procured fetal pigs for her to dissect?), and a significant portion of the plot was most definitely unique. My only lament was that the sex scenes were not better fleshed out. That and the issue of Dalrymple's seemingly split personality led me to only give this book 4 stars instead of 5. Even so, I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves romances, particularly those set in the Regency period. ( )
  crashingwaves38 | Feb 10, 2008 |
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