Love's Gambit (Regency Romance)

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Summary: Meg Lynn Roberts has a rare and refreshing Regency Style.
Review: I am a business owner, mother and wife in La Jolla, California. I have been a fan of Meg Lynn Roberts since 1993. As a student of Regency and Tudor history, I find Roberts depiction of Georgie to be an accurate representation of many ladies of that time. Contrary to public opinion, most women were not the milksop, dull and weak type depicted in most period novels. The Earl of Sedgmoor needed a lively woman like Georgie to keep him from dying of boredom.

Meg Lynn Roberts will keep the reader on the edge of her chair throughout all the escapades in this well written Regency adventure.

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Summary: Not a satisfying read
Review: I usually enjoy stories of hoydens.Such stories of mischievous, witty and spunky heroines as in 'A Magnificent Masquerade' and 'Whitney , My Love' are vastly entertaining. These heroines,although feisty, never step beyond the boundary of decorum and propriety. Therefore I find the behaviour ofthe heroine Georgie Carteret in LOVE'S GAMBIT reprehensible and in bad taste as she behaves like a brazen hussy instead of a lady of quality. She is over familiar with everybody including the stable boys, the servants ...etc. Even by modern standard, she is brash, unreseved, forward and brazen. While she could have let her servant nurse Augustus St. Regis , she stayed all those weeks in his room thus deliberately compromisng herself and left the Viscount no course but to do the honorable thing by marrying her.The Visount, a stickler for propriety and good manners has never approved of her behavor or liked her and marry her out of a sense of duty so it is rather flimsy to make him suddenly loves her. I think the writer made the mistake of writing this story as a Regency. It is highly improbable that a young woman in those days would go that far and take such desperate measures to snare a man. If it were written as a contemporary romance after the fashion of Susan Elizabeth Phillips or Susan Anderson it would have been a more successful story