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Summary: The BEST of the BEST
Review: This book is the best of the best, the hero is so touching and real you will fall in love with him. The heroine is everything you could hope for, no more biddable, timid chicks here only a strong, humorous and smart woman who can hold her own.
This is without a doubt the very best historical romance I've ever read. I have the same copy that I bought around 7 years ago if not more. I love this book, I only wish there were more like it. But, sorry to say, there are no more of its kind. This book is unique and definately one of a kind. It's a novel that will have you up all night long, you won't be able to put it down for long.
Ms. Chase does an excellent job of bringing the book to life and transporting the reader right into every scene.
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Summary: Possibly one of the best historicals ever written..
Review: I came across this book while perusing a listmania by a particularly discriminating reader so I decided to give it a try. I am so very glad I did because it is without a doubt the best historical I've ever read.The man society has nicknamed the Lord of Scoundrels is Lord Dain. Lord Dain is so nicknamed because he has made a living out of drinking, gambling.... He has dedicated himself completely to living life on the fast track . On the surface he is selfish, careless, mocking, and totally self-assured. This is, however, all a facade because underneath that urbane exterior hides a lonely, rejected little boy who thinks himself ugly and unlovable. His childhood was a horrid one, his mother ran off with a lover and his father has always rejected him because of Sebastian's unusual and exotic looks. After his mother ran off, his father packed him off to school where Sebastian was teased mercilessly by his classmates because of his appearance. After such a traumatic childhood Sebastian grows up to become one of the most deliciously tortured heros I've ever come across. Such a hero deserves an extraordinary heroine and this hero gets one in Jessica Trent. Jessica is strong, beautiful and determined and just completely wonderful. She's her own woman,totally independent and a spinster by choice. When she hears her not so bright brother has been seen in the company of the infamous Lord Dain, Jessica hurries to rescue him from Sebastian's evil clutches. When she meets Sebastian she's left totally breathless and she finds herself head over heels in lust with him. Sebastian is equally smitten but he has religiously avoided any contact with proper young ladies all his life so he's determined to avoid Jessica like the plague. Only is not so easy Sebastian is falling in love, of course he would rather die than admit this even to himself. He's also convinced she could never want him because she's beautiful and dainty and he thinks himself ugly and a big brute of a man. Little does he know Jessica can't stop thinking about him... Make no mistake this is the most delicious book you will ever read I can almost guarantee it. The dialogue sparkles and sparks positively fly between Dain and Jessica. By the end of the book you will be crazy in love with Sebastian and you will adore Jessica. Get this book, you will not regret it. I will cherish my copy for years to come. :)
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Summary: Great Writing -- Way Better than the usual romance!!!
Review: This was so well done. The writing was terrific. Lot's of humour -- really clever. Great heroine!! The characters were fantastic. I really loved this book and was so suprised by how good it was. One of my tope 10 romances for sure. . . . check it out!
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Summary: A KEEPER!
Review: This book was wonderful! I loved it so much. I had read THE LAST HELLION first and loved that one too. I couldn't wait to read LOS and it was worth it (even if I felt it wasn't as humorous as TLH). What a tortured hero! I usually get annoyed with tortured heroes, thinking they should just get over it. But with Dain I felt for him constantly. This book was so emotional with some humor thrown in. The heroine was excellent. She was very feisty and well suited to the hero. If I kept books this would go on my keeper shelf.
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Summary: charming and amusing story :lord of scoundrels.
Review: This is my first book of Loretta chase and anybody who likes amusing , vivid and sensual love stories , must read this novel . I enjoyed very much the characters ( Dain and Jess ).Loretta chase is a very good writer .
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Summary: Not bad but I expected more
Review: The story is about the reforming of a notorious rake named Lord Dain who is a devoted whoremonger and debauchee and appears not to have a single decent bone in his body. He meets Jessica, a stunningly beautiful spinster woman in an antique shop in Paris. Sparks fly, but after all the bad experiences he has made with mankind (especially with women) he cannot believe Jessica finds him attractive. When the ton finds them in a very compromising situation he refuses to marry her saying the infamous words "Shoot me!" Well, sometimes people get what they want...
The story is hilarious sometimes and also entertaining in the second half of the book. I especially liked the part where Jessica makes Lord Dain accept his ignored by-blow son Dominique. This alone is worth reading the story. Yet I felt disturbed by the total lack of realism and the much too perfect heroine. First of all: A girl like Jessica, extremely beautiful, very sensual, daring and admired by almost everyone wouldn't have stayed unmarried or a virgin till her 27th birthday and then feel an overwhelming lust for the first time for a man like Lord Dain. She is knowledgeable about and interested in sex and not at all afraid of it but we shall believe she never before was erotically attracted to someone. Most of us already feel atttracted to the other gender in our teens even if we are not a sex-goddess like Jessica. Lord Dain seems to be the only handsome and sexy man in two countries. This is too much, really. Lord Dain on the other side who always has felt erotically attracted to big-boned and plump whores (the only sympathetic trait he shows in the beginning of the story)who he changes so frequently like other people change their underwear is now fiercely attracted to petite and delicate-boned super-model-slim virginal Jessica. If a man prefers a certain kind of looks in a woman he most likely sticks to it or doesn't change his preferences so drastically. Furthermore we shall really believe he will be able to stay true to one woman after having used a thousand of them? Shall we really believe he has not caught a serious venal disease while bedding one whore after another (sometimes even two at a time) without protecting himself which he obviously didn't ? Why did the author not made Jessica a sexually experienced widow and Lord Dain a man who avoids females due to his bad experiences with them? I'm really fed up with the extremely unbelievable cliché "debauched rogue is reformed by lovely virgin". And although I could understand Lord Dain's plight and felt sympathy for him I couldn't feel much for Jessica. She was so damn perfect and flawless. Beautiful, intelligent, sensible, sensitive, extremely caring, patient, virtuous, sensual, sexy, courageous....the list could be much longer. She always said and did the right thing. Therefore she remained somehow artificial and sterile. I couldn't like her for she seemed to be too much a role-model. I liked Lord Dain much better for he was much more human. If you want to read a better version of the reformation of a rake read Mary Joe Putney's "The rake". The characters are much more credible and in the end you believe that such a transformation could be possible which I here doubted very much because the glue between the two heroes is mainly sex and the fact that Jessica is the first decent woman who feels attracted to Lord Dain. I think his overwhelming sexuality caused his frequent demand of whores not his bitterness and disappointment in life. This is why I couldn't believe the transformation. When Jessica isn't a erotic sensation anymore he would -in reality-follow his old path especially when she is worn out by pregnancies and not so sexy anymore.
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Summary: WOW!! Funny, poignant, romantic and perfect!
Review: I've finally found another author to sit alongside Putney, Balogh and Beverley on my all-time best historical writers shelf. Loretta Chase, with Lord of Scoundrels, has produced a compelling and very readable, unputdownable masterpiece. Sebastian Ballister, son of a late marriage between the late Marquess of Dain and the daughter of an Italian count, has never known love. Abandoned by his mother, all-but disowned by his father and bullied at school on account of his oversized body, protuberant nose and foreign looks, at an early age he learned how to get the better of people. And when he almost found himself trapped into marriage for his money, he vowed to steer clear of the ton and to focus his attentions on gambling (but only if he won) and vice. The Marquess of Dain, therefore, is known as the biggest rogue in Christendom; Lord of Scoundrels or Beelezebub, as his friends call him. Jessica Trent, sensible sister of one of Dain's satellites, Bertie, wants to free her brother from Dain's influence. Believing that Dain is no doubt the devil incarnate, she is shocked to discover that, on seeing him for the first time, she actually wants to rip his clothes off. The attraction is dangerously mutual, as they discover when Dain manages to send Bertie off and he and Jessica have coffee together in a Parisian cafe. They get involved in a dangerous flirting game which ends with Dain unbuttoning her glove. Attraction sparks between them. Dain, angry with Jessica for having bested him in acquiring something he wants, threatens to ruin her reputation if she doesn't give it to him. She points out that it is *his* reputation which is more likely to be ruined: after all, he *never* bothers with respectable women and has foresworn anything as mundane as marriage. If he is seen too frequently with Jessica, his reputation as the lord of vice will be destroyed. And yet, when they both have so much to lose, they can't stay away from each other... and then disaster strikes. As the cover description points out, they're seen in a compromising situation. Dain could have made things better, but his darker nature makes him say the cruellest thing possible; and then he abandons Jessica. However, Jessica is no ordinary heroine; she goes after Dain with a gun! I couldn't bear to put this book down. The characters are cleverly and richly drawn, and the plot is both engaging and gripping. Dain is a wonderfully complex hero: commanding and powerful on the one hand, but deeply vulnerable and in need of love on the other. He thinks himself ugly and can't see why any woman - especially a beautiful woman like Jessica - would want him, if not for his money. He can't admit to himself that Jessica actually means something to him beyond mere lust, because that would mean that he'd be admitting that he needs another person in his life, that he's not self-sufficient. Jessica is a marvellous heroine. She's sensible, intelligent, but not prudish or stiff-rumped. She admits to herself early on that she's attracted to Dain, and that she can't keep away. Not (at first) knowing that he considers himself ugly, all she knows is that he's completely gorgeous! And when he almost destroys her, she determines that he's not going to get away with it. But then she starts to see through his bluster and his threats; her experience with helping to bring up her relatives' young sons have taught her a lot about the male psyche and in particular masculine pride. As such, Jessica doesn't take offence and storm off, as many such heroines in other books might do. Instead, she plots and uses her intuition to figure out what might be going through Dain's head - and most of the time, she's right. This is a thoroughly enjoyable love story, a definite keeper. If only it didn't have such a horrible cover!!
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Summary: Regency romance at its best!
Review: There's a reason that "Lord of Scoundrels" is near the top if everyone romance reader's list of favorite books. Loretta Chase has written one fabulous regency romance. Jessica Trent is determined to pry her nitwit brother away from the notoriously corrupt influence of the Marquess of Dain. However, once she meets Dain she is mature enough to admit that there is an obvious physical attraction between them. Dain also recognizes the attraction, but he is determined to avoid doing anything about it. Dain had a particularly painful childhood, and he is convinced that he is such a flawed person that no one could ever ruly care for him. That's why he's buried himself in the world of vice. Since the two keep running into one another and since both want to discourage the other's advances, they each set out to destroy the other's reputation. Dain thinks he'll have an easy job of it - afterall, merely being seen in his presence is enough to cause a scandal. However, as Jessica cleverly points out, because he is publically seeking her out and clearly displaying his interest in her, he is actually ruining his own reputation as a heartless rake. These scenes are amusing and emotionally intense by turns. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but you will be amazed at what Jessica does to get Dain to marry her. That is only half of the story, however. The rest involves the two of them trying to figure one another out and settle into the meaningful relationship that they both want . This is a great read from cover to cover - enjoy!
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Summary: Hilarious Beauty and the Beast
Review: Whatever I can say will be redundant after all the other comments by her reader fans. Dain could melt the South Pole with his smooth Italian phrases. It is also great to read of a hero that doesn't resemble a Greek god. Jessica will always be one of my favorite heroines, strong, great sense of humor and courage to put Dain right where she wants him. Loved this book.
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Summary: A short review to allow me to read this book again!
Review: From the moment they meet, Jessica Trent and Lord Dane share an animal magnetism. Neither recognizes that the feelings are not one-sided. This is the story of how Jessica realizes Dane is her destiny and Dane finds Jessica is his salvation. I cannot say enough good things about this book. Loretta Chase lets the reader into the minds of her characters. She explains everything along the way so the reader is not left wondering "why would Dane do THAT". The reader knows exactly what feelings are driving the characters actions. The story is also fresh and full of amusing scenes. This is a great find!
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