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Seducing The Duchess (2010)

by Ashley March(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0451232364 (ISBN13: 9780451232366)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Signet Eclipse

review 1: Sevdiği adam tarafından hayal kırıklığına uğrayan bir kadın, Charlotte. Düğün gecesinin ertesi günü, kocası tarafından bir kenara fırlatılıyor ve görmezden geliniyor. Phillip Burgess, 9.Rutherford Dükü Saygıdeğer Ekselansları, Charlotte'un sadakatsiz kocası. Öyle ki adam, kendisine ihanet eden insanlardan intikam almak için soğukkanlılıkla masum bir kadını kullanıyor. Ve evli geçirdikleri 2,5 yıl boyunca bundan zerre pişmanlık duymuyor. Bir sabah uyandığında ise her şey farklı geliyor, karısı gözüne batmaya başlıyor, ondan hoşlanıyor ancak Charlotte onsuz iyi idare ediyor gibi görünüyor. Sırf Phillip'i sosyetede küçük düşürmek için skandaldan skandala atlıyor ancak Dük'ün ilgisini çekemiyor. Ve yine bir gün... more, bir kumarhanede başka bir adamla eğlenirken Phillip gelip, kendi karısını kaçırıyor. Neden? diye sormadım değil. Aslında cevabı açık, Phillip Charlotte'u seviyor. Ama neden bu kadar geç kaldı bunun için? İşte bunun cevabı yok. Belki de olmaması gerekiyor. Sonuçta insan hissettikleri için sebepler yaratmaz. Birden oluverir ne olacaksa. Bu yüzden sorgulayanların aksine, ben bu sorunun cevapsız olmasından memnunum. Kişisel yorumuma gelirsek eğer kitabı sevdim. Gerekli olduğunca duygusal, eğlenceli ve akıcı buldum. Okurken hiç boğulmadım. Phillip'in yersiz kıskandırma oyunu dışında. Ancak başarısız olduğunda eğlendiğim için, bunu kusur olarak görmüyorum:)))) Kadın karakterin duygularının aktarımı çok iyi değildi, o nedenle biraz ruhsuz kalıyor Phillip'in yanında. Zira adamımız sert mizaçlı, her istediğine sahip, her emri yerine getiriliyor, genç, dinç, zengin ve yakışıklı. Kendi isteklerinin ön planda olmasına alışık bu yüzden bencil ve hesapçı. Oldukça da zeki ve planlı. Esprili bir mizacıyla bu kusurlarını kapatıyor elbette. Dediğim gibi her istediği şeye sahip olabilir, çünkü o Ekselansları :) Ancak onun duygusal bunalımı gayet iyi yansıtılmış, yalvarmıyor evet ama şiir yazdı yahu. Charlotte'yi neyin memnun edeceğini düşünerek geçirdi tüm hikaye sürecini. Goodreads'ten öğrendiğime göre yazar, yeni bir yazar. Ben oldukça başarılı buldum. Çeviri de güzeldi. Üstelik Epsilon orjinal görseli de kullanmış ki zaten kapak harika. Eh daha ne olsun. Tavsiye ederim.
review 2: Wow, what a ride.Pros:1. An interesting premise that takes up where normal romance novels just leave off. 2. Characters that aren't entirely lily white and pure.3. ANGST 4. ANGST5. MOAR ANGST!!!!Cons:1. Inability to tell what time period this was until Austen was mentioned 75% of the way through the book.2. The romance was immature from the beginning, so there was no basis for proclamations of "love."3. Jarring use of anachronistic words.4. Reasons!****My normal priorities for how I rate a book: 1) Did I forsake my life to finish the book? and 2) How much did I cry?If the book hit those two hard, then I'll forgive just about anything. But even THIS book (though it hit those two hard) couldn't make me forgive all the problems.Usually, romances with "Y wronged me and so I will seduce his/her female relative X as REVENGE RAWR!" have the romance between the seduction and the HEA be relatively immediate. So basically the hero gets a clue that he's in lurve soon after he beds the girl and then he spends the rest of the book fighting his feelings. The girl, meanwhile, is a longsuffering martyr who, with doe-like eyes, forgives all after an "I love you" and a little nibble on her clit. *yawn*This book turns that on its head a little bit, starting 3 years after the revenge has been taken. The dude courted her, married her, bedded her, told her he didn't love her and he was taking revenge on her brother, left her, went to his mistress, and that was that.THAT'S new and different for this trope.And her? She didn't retire to the country. Oh, no. She's been living with him for three years in London IN THE SAME HOUSE but never speaking. I suppose it must be like living in a walkup. Anyhoo, she's so pissed off (cuz she was 18 and her heart was broken, and really, what woman ISN'T going to be heartbroken and pissed off?) she wants a divorce. The only way she can think of to get him to give her a divorce is by building herself a reputation as a flagrant adulterer/mistress/harlot.That's REALLY new and different for this trope.Sold.All the actual problems begin when dude decides he wants to keep his wife. It's because he realizes he LURVES her. Well...why? He could never be arsed to talk to her in three years ALTHOUGH THEY LIVE TOGETHER and he totally didn't care what she did and he totally kept a mistress their entire marriage. So what does he actually know of her other than the sweet 18-year-old he married and (emotionally) abandoned the next morning?So I didn't buy his "Oh, I LUUUURRRRVE you!" and she had no reason to, either. What I liked is that she put his feet to the fire. What I didn't like was that she didn't keep them there until his feet were cremated and he was forced to walk on charred ankle stumps.Anyhoo, so she "loves" him too but it's a crush she never got over and she's mistaking it for love. That's her problem.Her other problem (although no other romance reader in the world will agree with me) was that she was faithful to him and her reputation as a whore was carefully constructed and totally false. Man, why didn't she find a lover? Might as well be hung for the sheep as the lamb. Maybe find someone else who actually loved her. I dunno. I just wish she hadn't felt the need to keep her legs closed when everybody thought they were open.My next two problems were structural. Firstly, there was NO indication about what time period this was until about 3/4 through the book. There was no date stamp. There were no fashion, decorating, political, or cultural references to give one a clue as to the time period. And let me tell you, this was very disconcerting. The dresses were dresses. If, even ONCE, mention had been made of an empire waist or a slim skirt versus a hooped one, then that would have served the purpose. But no. Then, toward the end, Byron and Austen were mentioned. Nice. Thanks.Secondly, there were words like "narcissistic" and "egotistical" and "jogging" (as in, that trotting-run-thing people do but I don't know why) and "sashay" (although this might have been okay in the late Victorian period, but since I didn't know the time period...). Really?So apparently I'm one of those people who don't like a wallpaper historical. I didn't think it bothered me, but in this instance, it really did.On the other hand, I read it straight through and I cried copious tears. COPIOUS, I tell you. She managed to be a martyr without actually being a martyr, so I was good with that.The rest of it annoyed me too much to forgive it by losing sleep and making me cry. less

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