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Summary: Notorious
Review: If you have a romantic streak and long for a grippingly good love story, if you're drawn to alpha males who can take on any opponent with one hand (but for one infuriatingly irresistible woman!), if you like to root for a strong-willed and worthy heroine who's more than met her match in love, then you are going to LOVE Notorious! I sure did. Populated with memorable characters battling it out in a different and dangerous setting, and seething with conflicted passion between a truly lovable hero and heroine, this new offering from Katherine Sutcliffe took me up on the first page and swept me happily away into a masterfully woven tale full of twists and turns that had me laughing, sighing, and worrying aloud. This was a delightful read! I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A Honey of a Historical!
Review: If you like a good romantic story by a top writer, Notorious is a honey of a historical romance. Sutcliffe is the master of grabbing the reader's attention at the beginning and not letting up until the wonderful, satisfactory finish.
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Summary: Notorious is a FABULOUS book!
Review: In 1857, during the time of India's first uprising against the British government, Destiny Fontaine, a recent young widow whose loveless first marriage had never been consummated, meets Jason Batson in a secluded glade near her home in England. Unaware that Jason is a mercenary, hired by the British government to determine whether her father, along with Nana Sahib, is heading up India's rebellion, Destiny falls in love with him. This brief affair results in her pregnancy, which is not discovered until after Jason has spirited her aboard his ship, staffed with cutthroats and hired assassins and headed, in a deadly race against time, for India. Jason and the British government hope she will lead him to her father. Notorious is a stunning and accurate re-creation of a dark time in history, brilliantly interwoven with a passionate and dangerous love affair between two headstrong people who come from two different worlds. Ms Sutcliffe has blended the tapestry of these two worlds so well that you can taste the pungent spices in the marketplace, and your nose burns from the odor of smoke and the bloody carnage of war. You'll find yourself breathless over Destiny and Jason's turbulent love affair, and rapidly turning pages to see whether these two people and their unborn child can survive the danger constantly surrounding and bombarding them. This is by far the best historical romance I've ever read. Ms Sutcliffe has really outdone herself with this masterpiece novel; I can't recommend it highly enough. If I had to use a scale of one to ten, Notorious would have to be at least a twenty. No, make that a fifty.
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Summary: Her best one yet
Review: Katherine Sutcliffe has done it again! I absolutely loved this book. Lots of action and adventure along with a great romance. If you like your heroes dark yet vulnerable and your heroines strong yet innocent this is the book for you. NOTORIOUS is definitely going on my keeper shelf.
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Summary: I'm speechless..
Review: Ladies and Gentlemen, I've been reading Katherine Sutcliffe for many years, but this book is far and away her crowning glory. The setting is exotic, the heroine is refreshingly human, and her hero is a flawed, complicated mercenary with a heart of gold. One can see Ms. Sutcliffe's exceptional ability at subplot and motivation through secondary characters who are unusually eccentric and well-developed. As always with a Katherine Sutcliffe novel, the line between good and evil is blurred, giving the characters a resonance of reality and truth. I hope you enjoy it as much as I.
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Summary: The best historical I ever read
Review: Ms. Sutcliffe has done it again! She is the only one that could make a non believer in historical romances a believer. Her ability to weave intrigue into a love story without diminishing either story line is truely unique and an ability most authors do not have. Her detail to history shows the amount of time she put into her research to ensure she provides her readers with a true feeling of the time period. Her characters are so believable that you still think about them months after you finish the book.I have read all her books and consider them all keepers. She is truely a genious
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Summary: Spellbinding Pager turner
Review: Seething with deep emotions and brimming over with plot twists and masterfully crafted characters, this is a spellbinding page turner. You never know what will happen next as Ms Sutcliffe skillfully leads you through a maze with her vivid prose and colorful descriptions of high seas adventures and the Sepoy rebellion. NOTORIOUS is a winner in which potent passion combines with wild adverture. SENSUAL!
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Summary: SPELLBINDING PAGE TURNER
Review: Seething with deep emotions and brimming over with plot twists and masterfully crafted characters, this is a spellbinding page-turner. You never know what will happen next as Ms Sutcliffe skillfully leads you through a maze with her vivid prose and colorful descriptions of high seas advertures and the Sepoy rebellion. NOTORIOUS is a winner in which potent passion combines with wild adventure.
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Summary: NOTORIOUS by Katherine Sutcliffe
Review: Setting: England - 1857 - the High Seas and India Lord Jason Baston is really a mercenary for the Queen of England's Special Forces called Cobra. They are the ones who go in undercover and do the most dangerous jobs of killing and rescue to protect the Crown, and as the leader, Jason is the best there is. However, he has just spent a year in confinement and is only released because he agrees to take an assignment to assassinate Lord Fontaine, an Englishman, living in India, who is believed turned traitor. Jason locates Destiny Fontaine Chesterfield, his daughter, now a widow in England to find out what she knows about her father. Jason is very strong hero, he knows what to do in tight situations, and this is his dark side, but he has a caring heart as he has a special place for women and children, he's handsome as sin and has women melting at his feet. What will he do if he has to decide between the Crown and Destiny if her father, who is also a personal friend, is guilty of treason? When Jason and Destiny meet you can just about hear the lightening bolts hit the ground. Ms. Sutcliffe is a master at creating electrifying characters and this reader was spellbound by all that went on between the two. Believe me it is very explosive and sometimes rough and raw as the dickens. Destiny is an innocent in many ways, but a strong willed woman that is beautiful and stubborn, a courage to match Jason's, and more importantly, she's about to rock Jason's world with passion. His rules are about to go to hell in a hand basket. When Destiny finds out her father is in trouble she is determined to get to him even if it means she has to travel on a ship loaded with unsavory cutthroats, and an ugly captain who somehow reminds her of Jason. I loved the crew of mercenaries as their personalities are revealed through the book. To make matters worse, her aunt, Diana aka Cassandra, to my way of thinking, opens Pandora's Box and makes things chaotic for everyone as she stows away on the ship. She can make you so darn mad you are ready to throw her overboard. You never know what is going to happen next in this rousing adventure that is piled high with interesting characters and secrets, life at sea, and some hot sexy love scenes to blow you out of the water at the same time. And we're not even to India yet! <Grin> We still have the bloody Sepoy rebellion to go through in Cawnpore, British East India. I was on the edge of my seat for this one. I'm glad to see some authors are taking us to exotic places. I'm ready to travel and I think a lot of other readers are too! Brava Ms. Sutcliffe.
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Summary: Don't bother reading this book
Review: This book has certain moments, but it has too many faults for it to be a good book. First of all, in the 1800s, there was no such thing as colored contact lenses that the hero uses to disguise himself. The "makeup" he uses seems like it came out of Hollywood instead of the 19th century. There is use of quotes like, "What a tangled web we weave...", and other language which seems too modern. The subplot of the hero and his assassin brother was too 2-dimensional, as was many many of its side characters. I almost wanted to toss the book away, but I finished it because I was on a plane for 4 hours. It is NOT an entertaining book because of all the inconsistencies and time jumps. Oh yes, the heroine, who gets pregnant, is given opium....lovely. Don't bother reading this book. It is not "the best historical romance novel" as it says in the back cover....Don't waste your time or money on this one.
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