I love this book and decided that it would be a christmas gift for some of my friends. Even If some of her suggestions could feel too radical, I like I love this book and decided that it would be a christmas gift for some of my friends. Even If some of her suggestions could feel too radical, I like the general idea of (re)-educating our our daughters, but also in some ways ourself, in order to empower them. ...more
Several days after reading this book, I still don't know how to write a review that would be enough to express how amazing it was.
The story follows CoSeveral days after reading this book, I still don't know how to write a review that would be enough to express how amazing it was.
The story follows Corrado, from a little boy living in very dysfunctional home with a mother who doesn't know how to be a good parent and a mostly absentee mobster of a father, to the meeting of the woman of his life, the initiation in the mafia through his father and finally the construction of the myth that is the Kevlar Killer.
Everything was right, the world's building, the character's building, the families' dynamics. Everything....more
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!!! Why is there no resolve in this book? Why are you being so cruel?
Lucian is grieving. His innocent brother just got killed as a cNO! NO! NO! NO! NO!!! Why is there no resolve in this book? Why are you being so cruel?
Lucian is grieving. His innocent brother just got killed as a casualty of a war he had no part in. He is smart enough to know that he is far too powerful to let his emotions free reign. If in normal circumpstances he can be a very dangerous man, his grieving self could start a war that would be devastating for everyone involved, him included. So he decides to remove himself from the situation by flighting away and lock his pain until the only man responsible of it is found. And he knows in order to stay in check, he needs a distraction.
Yasmeen met Lucian two years ago and they shared a night that moved him more than she realises, even more than he can admit to himself. Lucian is not one to ask or to show weaknesses. What he wants he takes. So he takes (kidnaps) Yasmeen to his castle in Romania, where he expects her to give him the ownership of her body, and nothing else.
I so loved this book. After reading the previous books in the Wanted Men series, I got so intrigued by Lucian; mysterious, deadly, intelligent, dark, fascinating, controlling, hot Lucian (Am I gushing? Yes I am); that I couldn't wait to get to his story. I was afraid to leave Lucian as a hardened man in previous books to find him all mellowed by love in his book. That didn't happen at all, thank you. He was still very much a cold bastard to the point of cruelty, honest to the point of bluntness. I loved Yasmeen who was a great match to him. Despite her fragility steemed from her long fear of abandonment, she has an inner strengh that didn't let her yield that easily to Lucian, tempered by her desire to mend his pain, her weakness to have him accept her as more than a sexual plaything, and her inability to control her body when he is near.
And now here I am anxiously waiting for the following book. ...more
And this is how you do a historical romance with feminist undertone! Yes, this is a barb towards the last, very horrible, "faux-feminist", historical And this is how you do a historical romance with feminist undertone! Yes, this is a barb towards the last, very horrible, "faux-feminist", historical romance I read Storm and Silence. The point is not to have the heroine proclaim to be a feminist every pages, she actually has to act like one, and definetly shouldn't go falling for the chauvinist male hero.
Well, I digress, I might still be a little annoyed about it.
Anyway, back to "Duke of Pleasure".
Alf was abandonned by her mother on the streets of St Giles when she was still barely a toddler. From then on, she had to learn how to take care of herself. And with the help of a friend, she learnt that the best way to protect herself was to go as a boy. For two years now, she took up the mantle of the Ghost of St Giles by night, while working as an informant by day.
Hugh, the Duke of Kyle, has been back in England to take care of his two sons after the death of his wife, who he had a sour relationship with. While here, he is also tasked by the Crown to dismantle The Lord of Chaos, a group of high born men using small children in their perverse sexual games.
I loved that Alf was basically Hugh equal in strengh and intelligence. I loved that he recognised her value and didn't start coddling her when he realised she was a woman. I loved that the feelings he had for her didn't make him go all overprotective and apeshit on her. I loved that at no point Alf was put in the damsel-in-distress position, actually it is the contrary that happened. I loved that there was no jealousy or ill feelings between Lady Jordan and Alf and that at no point they were pitted against each other for the man's affection.
In fact, I loved pratically everything about this book. ...more
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