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Summary: A lesson how to become an english aristocrat
Review: I had read "Merely married" and enjoyed it so I was looking forward to another good book by the same author. Unfortunately, I was quite disappointed. Both Lord Savage himself and his teacher Ariel are quite boring characters. The story is about a teacher in manners who tries to teach a man, who she thinks is not familiar with civilisation, to become a worthy heir to a title. It is very obvious for everyone that this man already knows what the game is about. It takes a while for the other characters to realise this fact and this process is sometimes quite entertaining but mostly boring.
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Summary: A lesson how to become an english aristocrat
Review: I had read "Merely married" and enjoyed it so I was looking forward to another good book by the same author. Unfortunately, I was quite disappointed. Both Lord Savage himself and his teacher Ariel are quite boring characters. The story is about a teacher in manners who tries to teach a man, who she thinks is not familiar with civilisation, to become a worthy heir to a title. It is very obvious for everyone that this man already knows what the game is about. It takes a while for the other characters to realise this fact and this process is sometimes quite entertaining but mostly boring.
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Summary: An Enjoyable Read!
Review: I loved this book. Ms. Coughlin creates wonderful stories that you cannot put down. Ariel is a schoolteacher who must marry and while she is trying to work her wiles on the headmaster - whom she dislikes, by the way - she is asked to take on the mission of turning Leon (aka Lord Savage) into a proper English gentleman. To say she was coerced would not be correct because she felt compelled to help Leon from the moment she saw him half-naked and locked in a room with a window for visitors to gawk at him. She was worried that he'd be mistreated at the hands of someone else. Little did she know that the "savage" was already tamed and just waiting for the right time to pounce. Ariel struggled to teach manners and proper behavior to Leon all the while he pretended to not understand English. I don't believe Leon actually speaks for several of the first chapters. He is taken with Ariel's gentle ways and her kind attitude, not self-serving or high handed as the Englishmen who captured him treated him. He tried to fight his attraction to her by telling himself that she was just using him for her own purpose as well. She is taken with him as well, but unfortunately needs to marry someone quickly and feels that she could never aim for a marquis - savage or not. Although he does propose to her, she feels it lacked the emotion to back it up and she did not want to be married to him if she loved him but he did not feel the same for her. Leon realizes, almost too late, that he is in love with Ariel and that his love for her has turned him away from his original course of revenge.The fact that he was just as gentlemanly as the other Englishmen but was assumed to be a savage because he came from the Pacific Islands (Hawaii, to be exact) and was not raised in England just goes to show you the narrow minded and egotism of the English nobility of that time, as it is often portrayed to be. Lord Savage was funny, sweet and pretty light-hearted, in my opinion. Nothing too heavy or overly dramatic here. Ms. Coughlin's Merely Married is another must read.
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Summary: Romance at its best
Review: I LOVED this book. I liked the premise, the sizzling tension between the characters and the good humor throughout. Patricia Coughlin writes with captivating detail. My only complaint is the hero's goofy name, Leon.
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Summary: An Enjoyable Read!
Review: I loved this book. Ms. Coughlin creates wonderful stories that you cannot put down. Ariel is a schoolteacher who must marry and while she is trying to work her wiles on the headmaster - whom she dislikes, by the way - she is asked to take on the mission of turning Leon (aka Lord Savage) into a proper English gentleman. To say she was coerced would not be correct because she felt compelled to help Leon from the moment she saw him half-naked and locked in a room with a window for visitors to gawk at him. She was worried that he'd be mistreated at the hands of someone else. Little did she know that the "savage" was already tamed and just waiting for the right time to pounce. Ariel struggled to teach manners and proper behavior to Leon all the while he pretended to not understand English. I don't believe Leon actually speaks for several of the first chapters. He is taken with Ariel's gentle ways and her kind attitude, not self-serving or high handed as the Englishmen who captured him treated him. He tried to fight his attraction to her by telling himself that she was just using him for her own purpose as well. She is taken with him as well, but unfortunately needs to marry someone quickly and feels that she could never aim for a marquis - savage or not. Although he does propose to her, she feels it lacked the emotion to back it up and she did not want to be married to him if she loved him but he did not feel the same for her. Leon realizes, almost too late, that he is in love with Ariel and that his love for her has turned him away from his original course of revenge. The fact that he was just as gentlemanly as the other Englishmen but was assumed to be a savage because he came from the Pacific Islands (Hawaii, to be exact) and was not raised in England just goes to show you the narrow minded and egotism of the English nobility of that time, as it is often portrayed to be. Lord Savage was funny, sweet and pretty light-hearted, in my opinion. Nothing too heavy or overly dramatic here. Ms. Coughlin's Merely Married is another must read.
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Summary: Not so savage after all, but still fun
Review: I must agree with the previous reviewers. The fact that Lord Savage is not really a savage is obvious from Chapter 2, and the "taming" process takes rather too long taking this into account. Despite that and a certain lack of writing experience that shows up in the plot, the book is still fun and makes a good vacation read. If you prefer serious Historical Romance try Julie Garwood Highland series or Georgette Heyer books.
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Summary: Yawn....
Review: I think in the future I will pay more attention to negative reviews than those usually over done 5* reviews. Poor Leon, Lord Savage, comes to Enland and everyone thinks he must be a savage for real as he has lived his life on some Pacific island. That is just period ignorance and I could accept it. I was glad that Leon was actually as well mannered as the next man but did it really need so many chapters for Ariel, the woman hired to "tame" him, to be acknowledged? That was exceedingly boring. Also, the romance between them just did not happen. I am also finding it more than irksome that so many romance writers insist that the female heroine, who loves our hero, won't marry him because she loves him but is not sure if he loves her. Oh, but she will certainly marry someone else who she can't stand??? That is just stupid. Any girl in her right mind would marry the man she loved - since Leon does ask - and make her life with him. To think otherwise it dumb.
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Summary: Yawn....
Review: I think in the future I will pay more attention to negative reviews than those usually over done 5* reviews. Poor Leon, Lord Savage, comes to Enland and everyone thinks he must be a savage for real as he has lived his life on some Pacific island. That is just period ignorance and I could accept it. I was glad that Leon was actually as well mannered as the next man but did it really need so many chapters for Ariel, the woman hired to "tame" him, to be acknowledged? That was exceedingly boring. Also, the romance between them just did not happen. I am also finding it more than irksome that so many romance writers insist that the female heroine, who loves our hero, won't marry him because she loves him but is not sure if he loves her. Oh, but she will certainly marry someone else who she can't stand??? That is just stupid. Any girl in her right mind would marry the man she loved - since Leon does ask - and make her life with him. To think otherwise it dumb.
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Summary: A Good Starter....Boring Middle....Happily Ever After
Review: I was very interested in the plot to this book and was so happy to receive it for Christmas. Little did I know that Leon (Lord Savage) is not really a savage at all and the books makes a dismal attempt to pretend that he is. For all of Ariel's brains, I am surprised that she didn't pick up on this little fact from the start. Then there is the whole "taming" process, which I found to be quite dull until Leon decides to teach Ariel how to flirt, so that she can marry the headmaster to save her family from gambling debts. I guess this is where the romance part of the book starts. Although, it is hard to see until about 3/4 of the way through the book. The comes the really confusing part. Of course they sleep together and the question comes up of Ariel's virginity. I must say that I am still quite confused on this subject. The author makes it out to be that she was not a virgin, but then also says something about a "lie and a test" for Leon. Then add in the ending where Leon realizes that he is behaving just like his father and leaving behind the woman he loves. Pregnant? This little tidbit had nothing to do with Leon coming back or so I am hoping because it is never really resolved at the end of the book. All in all, this was a good book for a vacation read, but for serious romance reading, pick something different.
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Summary: A Good Starter....Boring Middle....Happily Ever After
Review: I was very interested in the plot to this book and was so happy to receive it for Christmas. Little did I know that Leon (Lord Savage) is not really a savage at all and the books makes a dismal attempt to pretend that he is. For all of Ariel's brains, I am surprised that she didn't pick up on this little fact from the start. Then there is the whole "taming" process, which I found to be quite dull until Leon decides to teach Ariel how to flirt, so that she can marry the headmaster to save her family from gambling debts. I guess this is where the romance part of the book starts. Although, it is hard to see until about 3/4 of the way through the book. The comes the really confusing part. Of course they sleep together and the question comes up of Ariel's virginity. I must say that I am still quite confused on this subject. The author makes it out to be that she was not a virgin, but then also says something about a "lie and a test" for Leon. Then add in the ending where Leon realizes that he is behaving just like his father and leaving behind the woman he loves. Pregnant? This little tidbit had nothing to do with Leon coming back or so I am hoping because it is never really resolved at the end of the book. All in all, this was a good book for a vacation read, but for serious romance reading, pick something different.
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