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Summary: Another in the Fallen Angel series!!
Review: This is a great book if you enjoy Mary Jo Putney's work. She has outdone herself in this book as she managed for over 100+ pages to keep me from figuring out the exact details of what the plot was. Not only what but we get to meet a host of new characters, and numerous old friends, whom we have met before in her stories. This is a continuation of Ms. Putney's Fallen Angel Series and if you've read the others before and are just now finding this book as I did, then it definately helps to connect the dots so to speak. While the story did drag in a few places its worth the reading time, if just to finish off the series.
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Summary: Passion and intrigue--wonderful!
Review: This is a simply brilliant book. The hero, a spy master, is just to die for. And the heroine, a mistress of disguise, is truly worthy of him. They really burn up the pages with their passion. You will love this book, and I guarantee it will be on your "keeper" shelf!
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Summary: One of the best books I have read in a long time!
Review: This is the first book I have read by Mary Jo Putney, and it looks like I just discovered a new author.Ms. Putney seems to have done her research; at first I thought the premise of the book to be unbelievable in the extreme - but it seems that there was indeed a similar club in that time period! Well, there's something that I certainly didn't learn in school! The book is extremely well-written, the premise is original, the characters complex - everything I look for in a good book. If I found it a little too long - well, that's only because of my time crunch (I wanted to get to the end, already!) but that's hardly something to detract from a book when it's this well written. It seems to me that Ms. Putney is one of those writers where you feel as if every word she put down on paper was meant to be there - that, combined with a daring and original story makes her one of the best. You can't help feeling for Kit, and, although another reviewer found it odd that she would go to such great lengths to help her sister, I don't find it odd, but rather touching - and rare. I also did not find the "twin thing" unbelievable as other reviewers did - these things really do happen in real life (both that she "found" another twin, and that she could "feel" what her twin is feeling - at least to some degree). In short, if what you are looking for is good writing, an original and daring plot, with a touch of the dark side thrown in - this is the book for you.
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Summary: Engaging
Review: Touching story, especially the hero's search for a more meaningful connection.
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Summary: Engaging
Review: Touching story, especially the hero's search for a more meaningful connection.
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Summary: Lucien's book tries to do too much..
Review: Well, if you can set aside the unlikely coincidence of one twin falling for another twin (in a different set!), this is a really interesting book. Lucien's past is revealed in his book. You know, I really had no idea that his sister was his twin, even though I knew that Michael (Lord Michael Kenyon of SHATTERED RAINBOWS) was in love with her as a child and that she had died young. A lot of things about Lucien made sense after this revelation. Frankly, I had been interested in this character "Lucifer" of the Fallen Angels ever since I encountered him in THUNDER AND ROSES, which was the first of the Fallen Angels series that I read. Lucien's romance is quite interesting, although it stretches my credulity at times. The story is a complicated one - Lucien is trying to identify the leader of a French spy ring, who is a British nobleman (of course). To this end, he joins a club that styles itself the successor of the Hellfire Club, but whose aim appears to be purely debauchery, unlike the Hellfire's wider political aims. [See my review of Daniel Mannix's book]. At different times and in very different places, he encounters several women who seem to him to be one and the same. He later identifies her, or misidentifies her as a rather repressed young gentlewoman or aristocrat (since she is the daughter of an impoverished earl). However, she tells him that he has mistaken her for her wilder sister, also a twin, who is now an actress. Lucien finds out that there is indeed a twin sister who is an actress, and concludes that he must find that woman to find the lady who both puzzles him and intrigues him. This is the start to an interesting story in which identities switch back and forth, in which the heroine keeps changing her identity and her story, and in which there are several dark secrets. The explicit stepback cover is somewhat unusual for the usual MJP paperback. However, the cover actually does not do justice to the story, which is about more than the sexual element. One of the key themes in the story is the strength of the twin-bond, and whether that can be successfully challenged by love for a man. That is, will Kit (the heroine) ever put Lucien ahead of her twin, as he wants and hopes? This book has a lot of intrigue in it, but it is mostly related to the main story, the romance of Kit and Lucien and the important sub-plot - the exposure of the spy ring. Or perhaps I have that the other way around. From that point of view, the story is a lot more satisfying than PETALS IN THE STORM, where the political story took precedence of the romance, and where a secondary character took up most of the space that should have been occupied by the hero. The book rates at 3.8 (rounded up to 4 stars). I wanted to rate it higher, since I thought Lucien was pretty cool and I thought Kit was an intelligent heroine (upto a point when she starts making some really stupid decisions). Unfortunately I did not like the twin theme, which I thought too much on top of the Hellion club and the espionage theme.
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Summary: Touching
Review: Wonderful hero, his vulnerability and wish for a meaningful connection are very touching.
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Summary: One of my favorite heroes
Review: Yes, many romance novelists create marvelous characters, but few create consistently interesting and complex heroes the way Mary Jo Putney does. Lucien is fascinating and not your run-of-the-mill hero. She explores the relationship much more from the male's point-of-view. There were some aspects to the story I found a little strange, but I suppose they are original and do not detract from how much I liked this story. I really enjoyed reading about all the different Fallen Angels (and their friends/relatives). These are some truly unique heroes!
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