Lady's Wager

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Summary: This Wager was Boring
Review: It was nice to continue the saga of the friends and family from Dark Wager, only Lord Rexley, Jack could have been a bit more romantic, especially after meeting the rogue he was portrayed as in the prevous novel. He was quite a lusty soul in the previous novel and seemed much too tame even for Gwendolyn.

The lightheartedness of Bella and Wulf's story helped to make this more enjoyable, but the secret of Jack's parentage was no big surprise.

I agree with the other reviews that there could have been a bit more sensuality introduced in the love scenes. I tended to grow a bit bored with the non-action of this book.

Rating:
Summary: The worst of the Wager series
Review: There is too much mystery and not enough romance in this book. The hero's character, which certainly seemed promising from the first book in the series, is poorly developed and shallow. The heroine likewise is poorly crafted.

Rating:
Summary: botched, and dashed annoying
Review: This absurd foray into regency England isn't romantic, it isn't funny, it's just botched. The heroine is not charmingly stubborn, she is headstrong to the point of idiocy. The only romantic tension in the story comes when she makes a dead set at the hero, informs him that she is his destiny, and he denies it for a couple of hundred pages. The myriad violations of period conventions are beyond annoying, but the violations of human nature are far worse. We are at no point persuaded that real live human beings would speak or behave like Ms. Spencer's characters. We are not persuaded to like them or to are what becomes of them. Period conventions can, of course, be flaunted by convincing and sympathetic characters, as they are in Judith's McNaught's novels. They can be flauted even more flagrantly with a humorous purpose, as they are in Amanda Quick's wonderfully funny regency novels. We are even willing to ignore them when an author has a compelling love story to tell and sets it in the regency despite the fact that she knows nothing of the period, as in Eloisa James' first novel. Ms. Spencer has nothing to offer her readers.