Readers fell in love with Francie and Alexander Bishop from The Seduction of Sophie Seacrest, and wanted to know how they came to be Mr. The book was a little soap-opera-ish.the hero was stuffy, the villians were cartoony, and the family members were meddling but I liked the heroine and I thought the book was worth the time I spent reading it.Ī Taste of Seduction is Book Two of Mary Campisi's Regency historical series, An Unlikely Husband. There was a decent amount, but none of the sex was long or gratuitous. I picked up this story because it was free on Amazon and I was intrigued by one star reviews that said it was riddled with sex. I've never read this author before and liked her writing style. He's unhappy about her presence, despite his attraction to her, and doesn't appreciate attempts from the Earl to push them together. Circumstances force Francie's aunt and uncle to reveal her true identity and send her to her father's home, where she meets Alexander. Born to servants, he was taken in by an Earl and worked to become a proper gentleman. Alexander Bishop had the opposite upbringing. If I finished reading it then it had to be "ok".Īfter the death of her mother, Francie Jordan was raised as a commoner by her aunt and uncle, hidden from the truth of her real blood ties. There are very few stories that I'll give a 1 star. Her supposed huge dog got hurt when it TANGLED WITH A POSSUM, didn't know England had them.ĭo I like the characters? No, there was no character development or connection. Grammatical errors or odd, repetitive language? 1/2 ? while it wasn't full of errors there were things that were wrong she describes her aunt as a teddy bear, a term that wasn't around in 1815. Is it plausible / logical? No, none of it There are so many tropes it's hard to keep up. The dastardly bad guy is trying to impregnate a whole village. Each villain is sex-crazed or abusive or both. The way you know a person is bad is because they like sex. Things that make this bad: There is literally an evil twin. I skimmed most of it, but even that was too exhausting. I knew in the first chapter it was bad but held out hope it'd get better, it did not. This book is basically the book people who make fun of romance genre are talking about. I tried, I really did, but it was just too much. Instagram: /marycampisiauthor/ĭNF about 75% in. If you would like to be notified when Mary has a new release, please sign up at. When she's not working on her craft or following the lives of five adult children, Mary's digging in the dirt with her flowers and herbs, cooking, reading, walking her rescue lab, Henry, or, on the perfect day, riding off into the sunset with her very own hero/husband on his Ultra Limited aka Harley. The rest of the story lives on in every book she writes. Enter a mouse-less computer, a floppy disk, and a dream large enough to fill a zip drive. It took several years and a number of jobs, including registered nurse, receptionist in a swanky hair salon, accounts payable clerk, and practice manager in an OB/GYN office, for her to rediscover writing. Mary should have known she'd become a writer when at age thirteen she began changing the ending to all the books she read. ��F.�c�8\���Z=G
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