All's Fair In Love & Seduction (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
The first part is almost a full story but it wasn't. Great story line. Don't like the use of the word " cock" though. Does not seem appropriate for the time period. Not a word I associate with sensuality. Also, the rest of the short story's are actually just excerpts of other books ( that I can't seem to find in full ebook form). I do not recommend taking any of your time to read any of these. Go enjoy a full book instead. Beverly Kendalls, "All's Fair in Love and Seduction" is a historical romance novella. For me this is the first of this genre that I have read and I feel that as an introduction into historical romance, it fell short. I ended up with several issues with this book.I started this book last year and struggled to get into it. Something seemed forced and a bit too complicated with the writing. This seemed to go away towards the end but by that time the story quickly wrapped up and ended. Another issue I had was that I felt that there was just not enough time spent on connecting the reader with the characters and the back story. This was something that was really needed, especially giving that back story (it was given but during that very complicated and awkward beginning) which would have helped to make those emotional connections early on, something that needs to be done with such a short story. I also feel that the author jumped too soon into the hot and heavy with this one. Once again I would have liked to have had more connection with these characters, especially since so many were introduced all at once (maybe that was the reason why everything seemed so complicated at first?). I guess if I had read all the books prior it would have settled better with me but as a stand alone it did not and it should have been able to because in the end of this you get to read a section of the next book along with sections from the first two previous books. All are based around characters you will find in this book but they all seem to be better written. I can tell you that with what I read for the next book, I'm completely into it and plan on buying it just so I can finish the story. If the author had not added it in, I would have left this whole series, never to return. Besides the the lack of connection and the dragging beginning and quick ending, the other issue was the major conflict which made it seem as if the two main characters were just purposely dragging things along for no good reason at all. I couldn't grasp my mind around it all though I really did try and I really do know where the author was going with it and what she was trying to do, it just didn't work out for me. So my suggestion is that if you plan on trying this out, start at the beginning of this series and then work your way down. It seems at least the next book is very promising. This one though, it's just a okay, something to have for in between novels.
What do You think about All's Fair In Love & Seduction (2014)?
I have to say I was liking the story but it fell apart for me at the end. I just have to say that Derek was a jerk. Derek's brother and Elizabeth's sister had an issue 6 years before which disgraced her sister but Derek thought she was just a gold digger because his brother swore he didn't sleep with her (which ended up being a lie later). Derek decided that Elizabeth was a gold digger like he thinks her sister is and so he decides she's trying to capture him in to marriage. Because of this he feels that it's alright for him to take her virginity and leave her disgraced and then refuse to marry her. He falls in love with her while wooing her but that doesn't stop him from punishing her for what he thinks she's guilty of. He goes ahead and tried to ruin her life over a faulty assumption of what happened between her sister and his brother. I don't get how he could be so callus and cruel. After he leaves her in ruins he finds out that his brother is a liar and all around jerk. He goes after Elizabeth at a ball and I was annoyed with his real lack of sorrow for what he did. He pulls her away from the ball to somewhere private to talk. I don't know why she'd trust him to go off with him considering he'd already told her he was out to ruin her but she did (which made me not like Elizabeth as much because she was being a sap). When he get around to apologizing he says he's sorry because he was wrong about her sister...at no time did he say...Sorry I hurt you...sorry I tried to ruin you for something that wasn't your fault...sorry I was an ass. I mean I didn't really feel like he was very sorry at all and didn't really have to pay for his horrible actions at all. I just didn't feel their reunion and the end of the book just fell flat for me... :(
—wendyb
This was an OK book. I got it as a free ebook, otherwise I'd probably never have bothered with it. The characters were decent and the plot was average, but there was something about it that wasn't working for me. I think it was at the beginning because for some reason I kept getting confused by who the characters were. I read a lot of Regency, so I'm usually pretty good at keeping up with actual names and titles but every now and then I'd have to go back just to figure out who was doing what. Maybe it was just the format, but for being free, it wasn't bad.
—alexis
This author has a way of being sweet and meltingly sexing at the same time.
—kinni
This author has a way of being sweet and meltingly sexing at the same time.
—gabryal8110
