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Dance With Deception (2007)

by Tracy Goodwin(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1500541435 (ISBN13: 9781500541439)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

CreateSpace

series

Scandalous Secrets

review 1: A friend recommended this book to me (she had read the original version and was excited to see an exclusive version being released). She sold me on it and I devoured the new version of Dance with Deception in two sittings. This is an engrossing tale from beginning to end, an emotional journey along the lines of classic romances that I fell in love with by Judith McNaught and Jude Deveraux. The hero is to die for, the heroine is well written and falls in line with the time period (1800s women did have duties and restrictions placed upon them) yet she is intelligent and suspects her father is deceiving her. The secondary characters jump off the page. It is well written, made me laugh and cry which (as I said in my Whitney My Love review) makes me a fan for life. I loved this... more book so much that I'm going to reread it. I cant wait for the second and third books in the Scandalous Secrets series.
review 2: I think Dance with Deception is my first straight historical romance, if so it's an enjoyable introduction to the Victorian era. (And a fun change from my more commonly read Victorian tales, most notably those of the Lovecraft mythos.) Gwendolyn MacAlistair's father is supposedly dying and she is being forced into an arranged marriage with his close friend and near constant companion, Kier. But since their re-introduction as adults Gwen can't rid herself of thoughts of Sebastian, a duke now, but like an older brother to her in childhood. But both Gwen and Sebastian find themselves unprepared for the manipulations of her father and Kier, and for the deep family secrets that are about to be revealed. Dance with Deception has all the classic ingredients of successful romance. Sebastian is haunted by a loveless past. Gwen is a feisty woman in a time that doesn't appreciate her, being manipulated into a proper, dutiful marriage with a man who seems to have no redeeming qualities. The attraction between the two is sizzling and the drama is spot on and satisfying. Being new to historical romance I can't say how it rates in period accuracy, but the details of the setting neither disrupt nor overwhelm the love story. Even though it's over four hundred pages I read this one pretty quickly and found it hard to put down. The best thing I can say about it is that it's quite the sensory novel, woven with tastes, smells and sounds that other authors sometimes forget. All in all Dance with Deception is a solid, if not enjoyable debut. less

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