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The Inferno Club: In public, this scandalous society of London aristocrats is notorious for pursuing all manner of debauchery. But in private, they are warriors who would do anything to protect king and country . . .
They say that the very name of Warrington is cursed . . .
From a time as old as the cold stone of the duke's ancestral castle, the Warrington men have been plagued by tragedy. But Rohan Kilburn, the Duke of Warrington, has vowed to escape the predestined torment by forsaking love and devoting his life to the Inferno Club and its secret mission.
And then she is brought to him unbidden by cutthroats hoping to calm the duke's infamous temper—a sacrificial virgin of sorts. But even overpowered, Kate Madsen will be no man's sacrifice. And the duke's price for claiming her may be what he has sworn never to give—the heart he has so long and fiercely guarded—to the beautiful hostage he was never meant to love.
They say that the very name of Warrington is cursed . . .
From a time as old as the cold stone of the duke's ancestral castle, the Warrington men have been plagued by tragedy. But Rohan Kilburn, the Duke of Warrington, has vowed to escape the predestined torment by forsaking love and devoting his life to the Inferno Club and its secret mission.
And then she is brought to him unbidden by cutthroats hoping to calm the duke's infamous temper—a sacrificial virgin of sorts. But even overpowered, Kate Madsen will be no man's sacrifice. And the duke's price for claiming her may be what he has sworn never to give—the heart he has so long and fiercely guarded—to the beautiful hostage he was never meant to love.
432 pages, Paperback
First published June 29, 2010
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Gaelen Foley
44 books1,893 followersGaelen Foley is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of twenty historical romances set in the glittering world of Regency England. Her books are available in sixteen languages and have won numerous genre awards, such as the Bookseller's Best, the NJRW Golden Leaf (three times), the CRW Award of Excellence, the National Reader's Choice Award, the Beacon, and the Holt Medallion.
A Pennsylvania native, Gaelen holds a B.A. in English literature with a minor in Philosophy from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, a quaint lakeside village where Mark Twain once owned a home. It was here, while studying the Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats that she first fell in love with the Regency period in which her novels are set. Gaelen lives in western Pennsylvania with her college-sweetheart husband, Eric, a schoolteacher, with whom she co-writes middle grade fantasy adventure novels under the pen-name, E.G. Foley. (See www.EGFoley.com.) She is hard at work on her next book.
A Pennsylvania native, Gaelen holds a B.A. in English literature with a minor in Philosophy from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, a quaint lakeside village where Mark Twain once owned a home. It was here, while studying the Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats that she first fell in love with the Regency period in which her novels are set. Gaelen lives in western Pennsylvania with her college-sweetheart husband, Eric, a schoolteacher, with whom she co-writes middle grade fantasy adventure novels under the pen-name, E.G. Foley. (See www.EGFoley.com.) She is hard at work on her next book.
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December 4, 2013
The first half is good … and then it goes Dangerously Downhill!
This is the second book in Foley's "Inferno Club" series and follows My Wicked Marquess, which came out June of last year. Neither one garnered a high rating from me, let alone reread status, and they both proved that Gaelen Foley is definitely one of those "hit or miss" authors for me. My Dangerous Duke was a miss, but it did not start out that way!
SUMMARY
[Cornwall, London, and the Orkney islands off the coast of Scotland - 1816:]
When Kate Madsen (22) is first introduced to "the Beast," aka Rohan Kilburn, the Duke of Warrington (34), it's after having been kidnapped, imprisoned for five weeks in a cellar, drugged with laudanum, and made up - and dressed down - to look like a prostitute. She's a "gift" for the Duke of Warrington, whose smuggler tenants are trying to appease him, as well as get him involved and implicated in a bigger mess than he realizes. He is instantly aroused by the woman and is glad to gain some recompense for having to take time off from his busy spy-assassin-sleeping-around lifestyle, go to one of his least favorite properties, and deal with some villagers' illegal activities. Rohan shortly discovers that Kate is not whom - or rather what - he thought she was, however he is nonetheless intrigued and attracted.
Kate has been through a very trying few weeks and this is only compounded by the fact that she's about to be handed over to a man nicknamed "the Beast" so that she can for all intent and purposes be his sex slave. Although they got off to a rocky start, Kate warily begins to trust this man who leaves her alone that night because she passes out, saves her when she's about to fall off a cliff, and becomes becomes outraged upon discovering that she was kidnapped and forced into this prostitute-charade (and that's all within the first 24 hours of meeting him!). The attraction between them is palpable, yet they spend a week ignoring it and settling into an uneasy truce and friendship, while they try and untangle why she was kidnapped and who is behind it.
Rohan's family has long been part of the Order of St. Michael the Archangel, "the good guys" on earth who are fighting against "the most evil bad guys imaginable," the Prometheans. After Kate is lucid enough to tell him she was brought there against her will, he is determined to find out who was behind this plot and why. It quickly becomes apparent that this is not some random kidnapping, but is directly connected to the overall Order vs. Prometheans battle. Untangling this mess will take them from Rohan's haunted castle in Cornwall, to the crowded and partying city of London, to a treasure-hunt and series of Indiana-Jones-type-tests in the Orkney islands. Through all this, people thought dead will reappear, allegiances will be questioned, love and trust will be tested, and ultimately Kate will have to decide if she is strong enough to love this dark and tortured man, and Rohan will have to decide if he is strong enough to let her - and love her in return. (I don't know where these corny last liners come from, but I can't seem to help myself!)
REACTION
As I said before, the book started off strong. I knew from the series' first book that the whole Order vs. Prometheans theme is complex, convoluted, and stretches across the series, however that didn't really bother me until the second half of the book, when things started to go downhill in other areas.
We begin with a sheltered, bookish, lonely, young woman who is lost, completely alone in the world, doesn't know who to trust, is understandably wary, yet is also kind and surprisingly brave. She's been living alone in her little isolated cottage with just her books and herself for company, ever since her guardian died 18 months ago. Her mother died when she was only 5 and her father, whom she was separated from at that time, died five years after that. She longs for adventure and to go out and experience the world, but feels safer within her familiar and comfortable cottage.
Her co-star is an all-around bad-boy assassin who has spent years sleeping around like no other. Yes, the Order guys are supposed to nurture their "bad-boy" reputations, but Rohan seems to do so all too willingly and we are told in the first few pages that he is used to having a "daily dose of sex." He is a very lonely man - both due to the nature of his work and because he has no living family members. Although he knows that what he does is necessary, he feels profound guilt for the many lives he has taken and the families that are left behind.
Great, right? Very dark-tortured-hero meets bookish-shy-sweet-heroine and love-will-conquer-all-in-the-end. It very much reminded me of Foley's Lord of Fire, the second book in her Knight Miscellany and a wonderful read.
So yes, it's all great ... right up until the point where they sleep together. No joke! The book was going great - I enjoyed the interactions and their relationship was progressing at a realistic and reasonable pace. There are cute, funny, tender, and hot moments, and you're looking forward to even more. The lead-up to them making love - and then the actual "making" part (lol) - was well-written and great and I was totally with it ... but they sleep together and the next morning, the book begins a rapid free fall.
SPECIFIC CRITICISMS
Kate, whom we *thought* we knew, apparently decides to go into personality-shifting overload, because the morning after giving up her virginity, she very easily makes the switch into a lovey-dovey seductive mistress who is very forthright about her sexuality and her lust for the hero. Now I'm not against that type of heroine, but that is NOT who Kate is ... well, it's not who she was, but apparently one night with the Duke will *truly* be a life-changing - or at least personality-altering - experience. I also became sick of hearing about the enormity of Rohan's sexual appetite, as well as how well-endowed he is - I mean we get it already, he's abnormally "notoriously" (that word is used), big. Enough!
My second problem arose with her sudden insight into Rohan as a dark, lonely, and love-starved man who just needs her devotion and pure love to heal. This last was an epiphany/revelation that comes to her within the space of a few hours, after having had to confront a horde of Rohan's female admirers who are practically beating down his door (can you say excessive?). All of a sudden, Kate understands everything: Rohan is scared of love, he's just been using all women and letting them use him, he doesn't think anyone is capable of loving the real man underneath or that he deserves it, and he's convinced himself that the Kilburn curse exists all in an attempt to cover up his running away from love. Wow, that's some great work there Dr. Kate - you don't even need a psych degree!
There are also a series of revelations and realities she has to confront, all of which she just accepts, takes in stride, and moves on. I mean, there's having forbearance and then there's just being stupid and devoid of emotion. I'm sorry, but it all of these things piled up and really began to grate on my nerves (I know, you couldn't tell ;-); after a few chapters all I wanted was to hurry to the end, get it over with, write my review, and move on to the next book in my to-read pile.
My **BIGGEST** criticism by far, however, was about three *very* questionable moments. It is a huge issue for me - as it should be for everyone - when books in this genre romanticize rape. There was nothing so blatant here (not like in Dodd's recent In Bed With the Duke), but there were definite problem areas and I've had this with Foley books before (specifically the first Knight book, The Duke):
* EXHIBIT A * Kate shows up the first night, is brought to the great hall where she is offered/given to Rohan, she's been drugged and thinks he's about to rape her ... yet she is attracted to and aroused by him and thinks it might not be all that bad. Excuse me, what?!
* EXHIBIT B * "If he had to have his way with her before he would let her go home, at least she knew that, if nothing else, he would make sure she enjoyed it. She shivered at the scandalous thought, ..." Scandalous?! Try completely unhealthy and twisted.
* EXHIBIT C * "She sensed his desperation and knew that he was hard and wild enough to take it if it was not offered freely" (p.318) ... great, what a nicely poetic way of alluding to rape.
BOTTOM LINE
Skip it! Stay away! Or somehow lose the book after page 218.
RECOMMENDATIONS
*By Gaelen Foley*
(1) Lord of Ice (Knight Miscellany, Book 3) - 5 stars
(2) Lord of Fire (Knight Miscellany, Book 2) - 5 stars
(3) Devil Takes a Bride (Knight Miscellany, Book 5) - 4 stars
*Dark and Tortured Heroes (some are darker and more tortured than others)*
(1) Thunder and Roses (Fallen Angels Series, Book 1) by Mary Jo Putney - 5 stars
(2) England's Perfect Hero (Lessons in Love, Book 3) by Suzanne Enoch - 5 stars
(3) Love in the Afternoon (The Hathaways, Book 5) by Lisa Kleypas - 5 stars
(4) Dreaming of You (Gamblers of Craven's, Book 2 by Lisa Kleypas - 5 stars
(5) Always a Scoundrel (The Notorious Gentlemen, Book 3) by Suzanne Enoch - 5 stars
(6) The Matchmaker (Maker Series, Book 1) by Rexanne Becnel - 5 stars
(7) Surrender to the Devil (The Scoundrels of St. James) by Lorraine Heath - 4.5 stars
(8) Seduce Me at Sunrise (The Hathaways, Book 2) by Lisa Kleypas - 4.5 stars
(9) Worth Any Price (Bow Street, Book 3) by Lisa Kleypas - 4 stars
(10) Most Gaelen Foley heroes (including the three in the books above)
This is the second book in Foley's "Inferno Club" series and follows My Wicked Marquess, which came out June of last year. Neither one garnered a high rating from me, let alone reread status, and they both proved that Gaelen Foley is definitely one of those "hit or miss" authors for me. My Dangerous Duke was a miss, but it did not start out that way!
SUMMARY
[Cornwall, London, and the Orkney islands off the coast of Scotland - 1816:]
When Kate Madsen (22) is first introduced to "the Beast," aka Rohan Kilburn, the Duke of Warrington (34), it's after having been kidnapped, imprisoned for five weeks in a cellar, drugged with laudanum, and made up - and dressed down - to look like a prostitute. She's a "gift" for the Duke of Warrington, whose smuggler tenants are trying to appease him, as well as get him involved and implicated in a bigger mess than he realizes. He is instantly aroused by the woman and is glad to gain some recompense for having to take time off from his busy spy-assassin-sleeping-around lifestyle, go to one of his least favorite properties, and deal with some villagers' illegal activities. Rohan shortly discovers that Kate is not whom - or rather what - he thought she was, however he is nonetheless intrigued and attracted.
Kate has been through a very trying few weeks and this is only compounded by the fact that she's about to be handed over to a man nicknamed "the Beast" so that she can for all intent and purposes be his sex slave. Although they got off to a rocky start, Kate warily begins to trust this man who leaves her alone that night because she passes out, saves her when she's about to fall off a cliff, and becomes becomes outraged upon discovering that she was kidnapped and forced into this prostitute-charade (and that's all within the first 24 hours of meeting him!). The attraction between them is palpable, yet they spend a week ignoring it and settling into an uneasy truce and friendship, while they try and untangle why she was kidnapped and who is behind it.
Rohan's family has long been part of the Order of St. Michael the Archangel, "the good guys" on earth who are fighting against "the most evil bad guys imaginable," the Prometheans. After Kate is lucid enough to tell him she was brought there against her will, he is determined to find out who was behind this plot and why. It quickly becomes apparent that this is not some random kidnapping, but is directly connected to the overall Order vs. Prometheans battle. Untangling this mess will take them from Rohan's haunted castle in Cornwall, to the crowded and partying city of London, to a treasure-hunt and series of Indiana-Jones-type-tests in the Orkney islands. Through all this, people thought dead will reappear, allegiances will be questioned, love and trust will be tested, and ultimately Kate will have to decide if she is strong enough to love this dark and tortured man, and Rohan will have to decide if he is strong enough to let her - and love her in return. (I don't know where these corny last liners come from, but I can't seem to help myself!)
REACTION
As I said before, the book started off strong. I knew from the series' first book that the whole Order vs. Prometheans theme is complex, convoluted, and stretches across the series, however that didn't really bother me until the second half of the book, when things started to go downhill in other areas.
We begin with a sheltered, bookish, lonely, young woman who is lost, completely alone in the world, doesn't know who to trust, is understandably wary, yet is also kind and surprisingly brave. She's been living alone in her little isolated cottage with just her books and herself for company, ever since her guardian died 18 months ago. Her mother died when she was only 5 and her father, whom she was separated from at that time, died five years after that. She longs for adventure and to go out and experience the world, but feels safer within her familiar and comfortable cottage.
Her co-star is an all-around bad-boy assassin who has spent years sleeping around like no other. Yes, the Order guys are supposed to nurture their "bad-boy" reputations, but Rohan seems to do so all too willingly and we are told in the first few pages that he is used to having a "daily dose of sex." He is a very lonely man - both due to the nature of his work and because he has no living family members. Although he knows that what he does is necessary, he feels profound guilt for the many lives he has taken and the families that are left behind.
Great, right? Very dark-tortured-hero meets bookish-shy-sweet-heroine and love-will-conquer-all-in-the-end. It very much reminded me of Foley's Lord of Fire, the second book in her Knight Miscellany and a wonderful read.
So yes, it's all great ... right up until the point where they sleep together. No joke! The book was going great - I enjoyed the interactions and their relationship was progressing at a realistic and reasonable pace. There are cute, funny, tender, and hot moments, and you're looking forward to even more. The lead-up to them making love - and then the actual "making" part (lol) - was well-written and great and I was totally with it ... but they sleep together and the next morning, the book begins a rapid free fall.
SPECIFIC CRITICISMS
Kate, whom we *thought* we knew, apparently decides to go into personality-shifting overload, because the morning after giving up her virginity, she very easily makes the switch into a lovey-dovey seductive mistress who is very forthright about her sexuality and her lust for the hero. Now I'm not against that type of heroine, but that is NOT who Kate is ... well, it's not who she was, but apparently one night with the Duke will *truly* be a life-changing - or at least personality-altering - experience. I also became sick of hearing about the enormity of Rohan's sexual appetite, as well as how well-endowed he is - I mean we get it already, he's abnormally "notoriously" (that word is used), big. Enough!
My second problem arose with her sudden insight into Rohan as a dark, lonely, and love-starved man who just needs her devotion and pure love to heal. This last was an epiphany/revelation that comes to her within the space of a few hours, after having had to confront a horde of Rohan's female admirers who are practically beating down his door (can you say excessive?). All of a sudden, Kate understands everything: Rohan is scared of love, he's just been using all women and letting them use him, he doesn't think anyone is capable of loving the real man underneath or that he deserves it, and he's convinced himself that the Kilburn curse exists all in an attempt to cover up his running away from love. Wow, that's some great work there Dr. Kate - you don't even need a psych degree!
There are also a series of revelations and realities she has to confront, all of which she just accepts, takes in stride, and moves on. I mean, there's having forbearance and then there's just being stupid and devoid of emotion. I'm sorry, but it all of these things piled up and really began to grate on my nerves (I know, you couldn't tell ;-); after a few chapters all I wanted was to hurry to the end, get it over with, write my review, and move on to the next book in my to-read pile.
My **BIGGEST** criticism by far, however, was about three *very* questionable moments. It is a huge issue for me - as it should be for everyone - when books in this genre romanticize rape. There was nothing so blatant here (not like in Dodd's recent In Bed With the Duke), but there were definite problem areas and I've had this with Foley books before (specifically the first Knight book, The Duke):
* EXHIBIT A * Kate shows up the first night, is brought to the great hall where she is offered/given to Rohan, she's been drugged and thinks he's about to rape her ... yet she is attracted to and aroused by him and thinks it might not be all that bad. Excuse me, what?!
* EXHIBIT B * "If he had to have his way with her before he would let her go home, at least she knew that, if nothing else, he would make sure she enjoyed it. She shivered at the scandalous thought, ..." Scandalous?! Try completely unhealthy and twisted.
* EXHIBIT C * "She sensed his desperation and knew that he was hard and wild enough to take it if it was not offered freely" (p.318) ... great, what a nicely poetic way of alluding to rape.
BOTTOM LINE
Skip it! Stay away! Or somehow lose the book after page 218.
RECOMMENDATIONS
*By Gaelen Foley*
(1) Lord of Ice (Knight Miscellany, Book 3) - 5 stars
(2) Lord of Fire (Knight Miscellany, Book 2) - 5 stars
(3) Devil Takes a Bride (Knight Miscellany, Book 5) - 4 stars
*Dark and Tortured Heroes (some are darker and more tortured than others)*
(1) Thunder and Roses (Fallen Angels Series, Book 1) by Mary Jo Putney - 5 stars
(2) England's Perfect Hero (Lessons in Love, Book 3) by Suzanne Enoch - 5 stars
(3) Love in the Afternoon (The Hathaways, Book 5) by Lisa Kleypas - 5 stars
(4) Dreaming of You (Gamblers of Craven's, Book 2 by Lisa Kleypas - 5 stars
(5) Always a Scoundrel (The Notorious Gentlemen, Book 3) by Suzanne Enoch - 5 stars
(6) The Matchmaker (Maker Series, Book 1) by Rexanne Becnel - 5 stars
(7) Surrender to the Devil (The Scoundrels of St. James) by Lorraine Heath - 4.5 stars
(8) Seduce Me at Sunrise (The Hathaways, Book 2) by Lisa Kleypas - 4.5 stars
(9) Worth Any Price (Bow Street, Book 3) by Lisa Kleypas - 4 stars
(10) Most Gaelen Foley heroes (including the three in the books above)
October 4, 2019
PopSugar 2019: 31. Una adaptación o retelling de un clásico
Tal vez estoy equivocada pero para mí es un retelling de la Bella y la Bestia, tiene todos los elementos por eso creo que el 60% del libro me encantó.
Amé la interacción de Rohan y Kate de como se fueron conociendo, haciéndose amigos, como poco a poco empezaron a confiar en ellos y sobre todo como se fueron enamorando.
Rohan es el duque de Warrington al que llama la Bestia por su altura y carácter temperamental además que es sinestro es uno de los agentes que conforman la Orden de San Miguel y el Club inferno junto con Max.
Kate es una chica que vivía sola en su casa y un día es secuestrada por conrabandistas por ser la hija de uno de los piratas más temidos que tiene información valiosa para la Orden de los Prometeos que son los enemigos a vencer de los agentes del Club inferno, es entregada a Rohan por miedo y ahí es como descubre él que ella es secuestrada por lo que decide ayudarla y hacer justicia.
La verdad es que sí me gustó mucho el libro, había mucha acción y aventura, me encanta el toque de misterio que la autora le imprime pero lo sentí un tanto largo.
Y Rohan también me gustó tiene lo suyo principalmente es DUQUE, pero Max sigue siendo mi favorito.
Tal vez estoy equivocada pero para mí es un retelling de la Bella y la Bestia, tiene todos los elementos por eso creo que el 60% del libro me encantó.
Amé la interacción de Rohan y Kate de como se fueron conociendo, haciéndose amigos, como poco a poco empezaron a confiar en ellos y sobre todo como se fueron enamorando.
Rohan es el duque de Warrington al que llama la Bestia por su altura y carácter temperamental además que es sinestro es uno de los agentes que conforman la Orden de San Miguel y el Club inferno junto con Max.
Kate es una chica que vivía sola en su casa y un día es secuestrada por conrabandistas por ser la hija de uno de los piratas más temidos que tiene información valiosa para la Orden de los Prometeos que son los enemigos a vencer de los agentes del Club inferno, es entregada a Rohan por miedo y ahí es como descubre él que ella es secuestrada por lo que decide ayudarla y hacer justicia.
La verdad es que sí me gustó mucho el libro, había mucha acción y aventura, me encanta el toque de misterio que la autora le imprime pero lo sentí un tanto largo.
Y Rohan también me gustó tiene lo suyo principalmente es DUQUE, pero Max sigue siendo mi favorito.
December 15, 2016
I think that I like the idea of this series better than I have the series. In this book, the first 175 pages or so were great-it started out strong...and then just got kind of boring. Don't get me wrong, it did pick up after that, but at that point I was kind of over it. I caught myself skimming alot. Never a good sign.
It is a very cool idea for a plot, though, it was the delivery that lacked.
This may be a wee bit ranty:
The Inferno Club is a bunch of spies who are trying to keep the Prometheans from conquering the world. Cool. Kate, our heroine, is kidnapped to use as leverage against her father, a sea captain/pirate who knows the location of The Alchemist's Tomb (ie treasure). So she is kidnapped and held for 5 weeks in a cellar and when the kidnappers are almost caught, their solution? To go to the duke of Warrington (our hero) and give Kate to him as a "gift." No really.
They drug her wine, she is presented as a drunk whore who wants to be some rich man's ladybird, and is hoping the duke will help her out. Since Kate's hot, and our duke is horny...he has her thrown in his chambers. But the laudenum has Kate passed out in front of the fireplace. He tries to wake his "gift" and she kinda slurs and wakes for a few moments, so he indulges himself with feeling her up-then he puts her on his bed, and gets her all hot and bothered, reaches for a condom in his nightstand...When he rolls over, she's out cold. So he sighs, decides he'll wake her for lovin' in the morning, and off he goes.
In the morning Kate panics, and runs. She almost gets free too, but she thinks the Duke is trafficking in white slavery (and that is why she thinks she was captured since her kidnappers told her he is a Beast and he plays with women). So she almost falls off a cliff, the duke saves her, the truth comes out that she's an innocent pawn in all this, then he finds out who she really is-she is the granddaughter of a Promethean who switched to their side. So she's basically French nobility and half-Promethean. His enemy!
He tries to figure out if she is innocent or if she's a very good actress. What bothered me was that he would believe her, then not believe her, back and forth even after 2 weeks, he takes her to her cottage, and it is burnt down. Nothing left...the devastation on her face finally allows him to believe her, and then he decides to offer her his carte blanch-a chance to be his mistress since she won't take charity (because being a mistress is much better than taking charity). He actually says he'll allow her to "work it off." Gah, how chauvenistic! what, on her back? Thanks Your Grace for disgusting me completely with your character. It's a shame since I liked him a lot.
When he takes her virginity, he actually thinks that he'll finally trust her when he sees her blood...really? I mean really. He just kept trusting her, then not, then trusting her then not, and I know it was the author's way of showing us he was trying to find reasons not to trust her, but she didn't do anything to deserve his censure. It just came off as him being a prick.
After Rohan deflowers his new mistress, he tells her all about who she really is, and who he really is, and how their destinies have been entwined since he first saw her mother and father before she was born. Kate feels like he should have told her all this before he took her body (duh) and then shrugs it off. She does that a lot, and instead of coming off as strong and being able to get through anything, it makes her look like a doormat. Even when she finally gave him his money back and said she didn't want to be his mistress, just his love, she gave him an ultimatum...I hate that-they never work.
The next part of the book is an adventure along the likes of National Treasure, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Lara Croft Tomb Raider. I actually liked that part a lot more, but it was so short compared to the boring drawn out parts. They found the treasure room, and the tomb, and a key. Just like that. I wish that more had been devoted to the trials and difficulties surrounding the caves and tomb...
And she just met her papa for the first time in like 15 years! There was what, a paragraph devoted to that? Really? And yet with every single interaction between our H/h it is like one phrase, 4 pages of insight on said phrase, then someone responds to what was said, and 4 more pages on dissecting that answer. Ugh. Can we have a straight conversation please?
The key led them to certain scrolls and it was pretty neat, and I liked the ending, and the hasty Scottish marriage (loved that part!), but the book on a whole was pick and choose. I found I liked the beginning and I liked the last third of the book, but the middle was slow.
It is a very cool idea for a plot, though, it was the delivery that lacked.
This may be a wee bit ranty:
The Inferno Club is a bunch of spies who are trying to keep the Prometheans from conquering the world. Cool. Kate, our heroine, is kidnapped to use as leverage against her father, a sea captain/pirate who knows the location of The Alchemist's Tomb (ie treasure). So she is kidnapped and held for 5 weeks in a cellar and when the kidnappers are almost caught, their solution? To go to the duke of Warrington (our hero) and give Kate to him as a "gift." No really.
They drug her wine, she is presented as a drunk whore who wants to be some rich man's ladybird, and is hoping the duke will help her out. Since Kate's hot, and our duke is horny...he has her thrown in his chambers. But the laudenum has Kate passed out in front of the fireplace. He tries to wake his "gift" and she kinda slurs and wakes for a few moments, so he indulges himself with feeling her up-then he puts her on his bed, and gets her all hot and bothered, reaches for a condom in his nightstand...When he rolls over, she's out cold. So he sighs, decides he'll wake her for lovin' in the morning, and off he goes.
In the morning Kate panics, and runs. She almost gets free too, but she thinks the Duke is trafficking in white slavery (and that is why she thinks she was captured since her kidnappers told her he is a Beast and he plays with women). So she almost falls off a cliff, the duke saves her, the truth comes out that she's an innocent pawn in all this, then he finds out who she really is-she is the granddaughter of a Promethean who switched to their side. So she's basically French nobility and half-Promethean. His enemy!
He tries to figure out if she is innocent or if she's a very good actress. What bothered me was that he would believe her, then not believe her, back and forth even after 2 weeks, he takes her to her cottage, and it is burnt down. Nothing left...the devastation on her face finally allows him to believe her, and then he decides to offer her his carte blanch-a chance to be his mistress since she won't take charity (because being a mistress is much better than taking charity). He actually says he'll allow her to "work it off." Gah, how chauvenistic! what, on her back? Thanks Your Grace for disgusting me completely with your character. It's a shame since I liked him a lot.
When he takes her virginity, he actually thinks that he'll finally trust her when he sees her blood...really? I mean really. He just kept trusting her, then not, then trusting her then not, and I know it was the author's way of showing us he was trying to find reasons not to trust her, but she didn't do anything to deserve his censure. It just came off as him being a prick.
After Rohan deflowers his new mistress, he tells her all about who she really is, and who he really is, and how their destinies have been entwined since he first saw her mother and father before she was born. Kate feels like he should have told her all this before he took her body (duh) and then shrugs it off. She does that a lot, and instead of coming off as strong and being able to get through anything, it makes her look like a doormat. Even when she finally gave him his money back and said she didn't want to be his mistress, just his love, she gave him an ultimatum...I hate that-they never work.
The next part of the book is an adventure along the likes of National Treasure, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Lara Croft Tomb Raider. I actually liked that part a lot more, but it was so short compared to the boring drawn out parts. They found the treasure room, and the tomb, and a key. Just like that. I wish that more had been devoted to the trials and difficulties surrounding the caves and tomb...
And she just met her papa for the first time in like 15 years! There was what, a paragraph devoted to that? Really? And yet with every single interaction between our H/h it is like one phrase, 4 pages of insight on said phrase, then someone responds to what was said, and 4 more pages on dissecting that answer. Ugh. Can we have a straight conversation please?
The key led them to certain scrolls and it was pretty neat, and I liked the ending, and the hasty Scottish marriage (loved that part!), but the book on a whole was pick and choose. I found I liked the beginning and I liked the last third of the book, but the middle was slow.
October 21, 2019
Tenía la sospechaba de haber leído ya este libro y sip... Ya lo hice (kill me now)
Igual me gustó mucho... Más que el primero y los tintes de bella y bestia en este me gustaron más que los de cenicienta en el primero.
Si buscan algo de romance con acción y demás este es su libro. Además me recordó mucho a las pelis de Disney de buscando el tesoro perdido y cosas así jajaja. Es de mis favs de la serie sin duda además los protas son geniales 😍
Igual me gustó mucho... Más que el primero y los tintes de bella y bestia en este me gustaron más que los de cenicienta en el primero.
Si buscan algo de romance con acción y demás este es su libro. Además me recordó mucho a las pelis de Disney de buscando el tesoro perdido y cosas así jajaja. Es de mis favs de la serie sin duda además los protas son geniales 😍
July 21, 2021
3.5 Estrellas #MiPeligrosoDuque #RetoRita5 #RitaFoley
Me ha gustado bastante, me gusta la manera de escribir y contar las cosas de esta autora.
Aunque el comienzo comparado con el resto de la historia se me ha hecho más largo, esos capítulos de más, lo hubiera añadido al momento casi final del libro. Cuando los protagonistas van a descubrir cierto secretos a una isla y tienen que superar ciertas pruebas.
Él me ha gustado bastante, no esta mal. Típico protagonista que lo llaman bestia pero que luego no es tal como aparenta.
Me gusta que su historia y la de ella, en cierta forma esta relacionada y según vas leyendo lo descubre a la misma vez que ellos.
Ella al comienzo me gustó mucho, se le veía con mucho carácter, pero luego me desinfle un poco, por que una cosa es que entiendas que el protagonista, te pueda salir por petenera, por que es como es y otra es aguantarle todas las tonterías.
Esta historia tiene de todo y te entretiene bastante, no ha estado mal!!! seguramente leeré los demás libros de la serie
Me ha gustado bastante, me gusta la manera de escribir y contar las cosas de esta autora.
Aunque el comienzo comparado con el resto de la historia se me ha hecho más largo, esos capítulos de más, lo hubiera añadido al momento casi final del libro. Cuando los protagonistas van a descubrir cierto secretos a una isla y tienen que superar ciertas pruebas.
Él me ha gustado bastante, no esta mal. Típico protagonista que lo llaman bestia pero que luego no es tal como aparenta.
Me gusta que su historia y la de ella, en cierta forma esta relacionada y según vas leyendo lo descubre a la misma vez que ellos.
Ella al comienzo me gustó mucho, se le veía con mucho carácter, pero luego me desinfle un poco, por que una cosa es que entiendas que el protagonista, te pueda salir por petenera, por que es como es y otra es aguantarle todas las tonterías.
Esta historia tiene de todo y te entretiene bastante, no ha estado mal!!! seguramente leeré los demás libros de la serie
May 4, 2022
I finally finished this! It seriously took me over a month but ya know I can’t DNF also I didn’t want to DNF I just had so many other things to read.
Overall this one was pretty okay. The end got into National Treasure and Goonies territory a bit which was fun, but by that point I was just read to return this to the library. The story was interesting adjacent and if I happen to read the next book in the series, I don’t think I’d regret my life completely. Gaelen planted the seeds for the next books nicely.
The feud going on here was both interesting and exhausting. There was just a LOT of information about that I didn’t particularly care for. It also got a little dark and a little gruesome.
Kate was pretty great and the setup was unique and something I haven’t really read before. Rohan had his moments but he was a large douche canoe for a lot of the book. Consent was blurry at places and he made some stupid comments/had some cringey thoughts. This is from 2010 and it shows. I liked the overall writing but some of the conversation was stilted and unnatural. But I don’t think this would stop me from reading more from the author in the future!
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 🌶🌶🌶*/5
*Sex wasn’t anything remarkable. Two scenes and lord knows I forgot I had read the first sex scene since it was days between reading it lol. So technically it felt like three scenes since I reread it.
Overall this one was pretty okay. The end got into National Treasure and Goonies territory a bit which was fun, but by that point I was just read to return this to the library. The story was interesting adjacent and if I happen to read the next book in the series, I don’t think I’d regret my life completely. Gaelen planted the seeds for the next books nicely.
The feud going on here was both interesting and exhausting. There was just a LOT of information about that I didn’t particularly care for. It also got a little dark and a little gruesome.
Kate was pretty great and the setup was unique and something I haven’t really read before. Rohan had his moments but he was a large douche canoe for a lot of the book. Consent was blurry at places and he made some stupid comments/had some cringey thoughts. This is from 2010 and it shows. I liked the overall writing but some of the conversation was stilted and unnatural. But I don’t think this would stop me from reading more from the author in the future!
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 🌶🌶🌶*/5
*Sex wasn’t anything remarkable. Two scenes and lord knows I forgot I had read the first sex scene since it was days between reading it lol. So technically it felt like three scenes since I reread it.
February 21, 2022
FIRST READ IN 2017!!
My Dangerous Duke is exceptional story in the Inferno Club series. This story is Rohan about the Duke of Warrington. He is also know as the Beast and he is an Assassin for the Order Of St. Michaels. In this story Warrington has returned to his ancestral home Kilburn Castle. Some of his tenants have run afoul in his absence. To stay Warrington's punishment too themselves they kidnap a virgin sacrifice Miss Katherine Fox/Kate Madsen.
Once Warrington finds out that Kate is not a doxy but a gently born lady and has been use by the Promethean Council to lure her believed deceased father Capt. Fox in to save her. They want the scrolls from there first leader Valerian the Alchemist and only Capt Fox knows the location of were Valerian is buried along with the cults scrolls. The teachings of Alchemy.
The growing romance and love between Warrington and Kate is a lovely romantic tale. It pretty sensual too. It takes a bit for Warrington to trust Kate because she has Valerian Blood. The story has a host of other wonderfully written secondary characters. The story moves quickly with the H/H being intelligent loveable characters who work together and not separately. The storyline of the ties and the war between the Ancient Inferno Club, Order of St. Michaels and The Alchemist Valerian Promethean Cult Council is expanding and growing. This is a very interesting series and bks.1 and 2 will go on my re read list. Excellent stories! I am looking forward to reading bk.3 My Irresistible Earl.
I Highly Recommend My Dangerous Duke, but I do suggest your read bk.1 first My Wicked Marquess first.
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My Dangerous Duke is exceptional story in the Inferno Club series. This story is Rohan about the Duke of Warrington. He is also know as the Beast and he is an Assassin for the Order Of St. Michaels. In this story Warrington has returned to his ancestral home Kilburn Castle. Some of his tenants have run afoul in his absence. To stay Warrington's punishment too themselves they kidnap a virgin sacrifice Miss Katherine Fox/Kate Madsen.
Once Warrington finds out that Kate is not a doxy but a gently born lady and has been use by the Promethean Council to lure her believed deceased father Capt. Fox in to save her. They want the scrolls from there first leader Valerian the Alchemist and only Capt Fox knows the location of were Valerian is buried along with the cults scrolls. The teachings of Alchemy.
The growing romance and love between Warrington and Kate is a lovely romantic tale. It pretty sensual too. It takes a bit for Warrington to trust Kate because she has Valerian Blood. The story has a host of other wonderfully written secondary characters. The story moves quickly with the H/H being intelligent loveable characters who work together and not separately. The storyline of the ties and the war between the Ancient Inferno Club, Order of St. Michaels and The Alchemist Valerian Promethean Cult Council is expanding and growing. This is a very interesting series and bks.1 and 2 will go on my re read list. Excellent stories! I am looking forward to reading bk.3 My Irresistible Earl.
I Highly Recommend My Dangerous Duke, but I do suggest your read bk.1 first My Wicked Marquess first.
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October 21, 2019
Me gustó más que el primero.
Rohan, apodado “La bestia”, es el sicario de la Orden. Kate, la hija de un pirata, y descendiente de un “Prometeo” lo volverá loco. Muy buena!!!
Rohan, apodado “La bestia”, es el sicario de la Orden. Kate, la hija de un pirata, y descendiente de un “Prometeo” lo volverá loco. Muy buena!!!
November 20, 2022
Segundo libro terminado y woww la trama mejora por momentos.
Advertir que si no lees el primer título no debes comenzar el segundo pues todo esta enlazado.
La parte romántica en esta historia es totalmente diferente a la primera y es adictiva. En este caso nuestra protagonista es la erudita Kate la cual guarda muchas sorpresas que ni ella misma conoce. Me gustó mucho su fortaleza. En cuanto al protagonista masculino, Rohan, apodado la Bestia, también me gustó mucho, quizás un poco más que Max.
De nuevo en este libro se enlaza la trama romántica con el suspense, desarrollando la subtrama de la Orden que está muy interesante. Totalmente esa otra parte de la historia enriquece a la principal y nunca le quita protagonismo. Chapó por la autora.
Por decir algo “negativo” añadir que hubo algunas partes en el inicio que se extendieron un poco más y hubo otras que me hubiese gustado un poco mas de desarrollo y quedaron más cortas, pero creo que es cuestión de gusto.
Si queréis acción, romance y suspense… esta es vuestra historia.
Advertir que si no lees el primer título no debes comenzar el segundo pues todo esta enlazado.
La parte romántica en esta historia es totalmente diferente a la primera y es adictiva. En este caso nuestra protagonista es la erudita Kate la cual guarda muchas sorpresas que ni ella misma conoce. Me gustó mucho su fortaleza. En cuanto al protagonista masculino, Rohan, apodado la Bestia, también me gustó mucho, quizás un poco más que Max.
De nuevo en este libro se enlaza la trama romántica con el suspense, desarrollando la subtrama de la Orden que está muy interesante. Totalmente esa otra parte de la historia enriquece a la principal y nunca le quita protagonismo. Chapó por la autora.
Por decir algo “negativo” añadir que hubo algunas partes en el inicio que se extendieron un poco más y hubo otras que me hubiese gustado un poco mas de desarrollo y quedaron más cortas, pero creo que es cuestión de gusto.
Si queréis acción, romance y suspense… esta es vuestra historia.
September 15, 2018
Love the details that Miss Foley adds to her stories. This has been an action packed series and I really have loved these first 2 books.
Rohan and Kate had great chemistry and the mystery surrounding this series is well woven and complex.
Great read!
Rohan and Kate had great chemistry and the mystery surrounding this series is well woven and complex.
Great read!
March 22, 2019
There are a number of reasons I could think of why this book could be nitpicked to the death today. And every single one of them made it more enjoyable for me. The right mood and all that.
The first half is romance, the second half turns into sort of an adventure. It's uncommon, but it worked. Again, for me.
The story comes very close to the old bodice rippers. Some of the things that happen or almost happen are a bit uncomfortable, but I enjoyed everything and I am not sorry.
I loved both characters. I especially loved the heroine's patience. She wore him down and he didn't even know what hit him. Her kind of patience is rare in a story like this. I don't think she lost anything by being the way she was.
The first half is romance, the second half turns into sort of an adventure. It's uncommon, but it worked. Again, for me.
The story comes very close to the old bodice rippers. Some of the things that happen or almost happen are a bit uncomfortable, but I enjoyed everything and I am not sorry.
I loved both characters. I especially loved the heroine's patience. She wore him down and he didn't even know what hit him. Her kind of patience is rare in a story like this. I don't think she lost anything by being the way she was.
March 14, 2016
I hadn't read a bodice ripper in a long time, and when I saw this one it seemed really interesting.
This is sort of like a Beauty and the Beast bodice ripper, and I found it rather enjoyable. It's quite a tame bodice ripper, so nothing too hectic. Light enjoyable reading.
The heroine is kidnapped and given to the Duke as a "gift". Soon he realises that she's been wronged and he sets about trying to avenge her, and obviously romance buds along the way, while they figure out that they are connected in deeper ways than they imagined.
I enjoyed this and will probably look out for other books in this series to read in the future.
This is sort of like a Beauty and the Beast bodice ripper, and I found it rather enjoyable. It's quite a tame bodice ripper, so nothing too hectic. Light enjoyable reading.
The heroine is kidnapped and given to the Duke as a "gift". Soon he realises that she's been wronged and he sets about trying to avenge her, and obviously romance buds along the way, while they figure out that they are connected in deeper ways than they imagined.
I enjoyed this and will probably look out for other books in this series to read in the future.
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June 11, 2011
My review contains spoilers and they're mostly my thoughts as I went with the book. This one's got 3 parts.
Hmm, so ... Hmmmmm ... I'm not impressed with Rohan, yah, trying but not. I don't like the way he thinks and treats women. I sure as hell won't think about getting screwed by him if I was in Kate's place (she's daydreaming away about that) and yes, I would definitely be scared of my well-being. There I've said it.
Rohan thinks since his blood is cursed (ancient, mind you!), he can go screw almost anything in skirts (tall, short, blonde, brunette, thin, curvy ... yah it's all there), except virgins of course, who might want something else from him. Let me tell you about the curse, Warrington males kill their wives/brides, 'allegedly'! ... There is a scene where he tells Kate of all these, it was interesting but hello?! You're a lout of the first order Rohan! Cursed or not, living in a haunted castle (yah, he thinks his castle is haunted) or not. Apart from killing missions assigned by the Order, he likes to screw around (literally!) ... Ahemm, have I overdone it a bit? Well, he's a bit overdone himself. Doesn't matter he's a giant of a man with dark hair and silver eyes with a giant ... ahemm ... well ... There I go again! *zips her mouth about Rohan*
Now, Kate I found quite interesting, as long as she isn't thinking about getting shagged by him. I mean c'mon woman, be a little scared! I know I would be, whatever I heard about him and he didn't deny it. It's his past time, putting his 'killer mojo' up and ready! I read his gutter thoughts telling us:
His mind drifted, the wine warming his senses. It had now been three days since he’d had a woman, and he had not forgotten the way she had felt beneath him last night. He still wanted her in spite of himself.
WOW! That's loooong loooooong time! I see... Oh, you get the 'daily dose' right? Hmm ... Hell, there I go again (and again) ... But, what can I do? I have to keep up with him! Umm, hmm...
So, where was I? Oh, yes, so Kate was abducted from her home, where she was living alone and presented as a 'gift' to Rohan by his gang of pirates. There are a lotta twists and stuffs and histories (of Kate and Rohan, of the Order and the Counsel) but I won't go in there. The fact is, when Rohan isn't thinking about screwing her, he's kinda confused that she might be a spy of the Counsel (see: the history of Kate). So, now, Kate wants to go home but can't since it might be that her father is alive after all (fill in the blanks: the history of Kate). She has to 'stay' with Rohan in his castle. Oh, the misery! Rohan is a perfect gentleman now, at least outwardly, to her so she'd decided to trust him. I'm saying it again, I still think she's quite smart (at least smarter than Daphne) but this is sorta crazy. This whole storyline. I don't know what's gonna happen next, given that Rohan is having more and more of his 'unexpected (read: dead and buried) bouts of tenderness and possessiveness' towards her. Well, I guess, the obvious ...
I think this story, even though insane, is more interesting than My Wicked Marquess, because there are some scenes where I saw the glimpse of the 'old' Gaelen Foley (yup, decided to call her earlier works that) I so loved. I even felt that heady anticipation, though it didn't stay on for long.
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No, this story isn't AT ALL interesting. God, I'm feeling so frustrated. When you read a book knowing the author can write SO DAMN MUCH MORE BETTER and end up with some trash comparing to his/her earlier works, what do you do? This book is exactly that.
I thought Kate was smart, I take it back. She turned out to be exactly what her abductors said from the beginning, a dumba$$ wannabe whore. And, she later agrees to that herself, not the 'dumba$$' part, mind you! I never have respect, adoration for a heroine who makes herself an easy conquest, knowing what a pathetic moron (namely: rakes, a breed who'd screw anything in skirts!) the hero is. I had issues with SO DAMN MANY THINGS and her shrugging all those things off, ie:
1) Knowing what kinda man Rohan is, his past with women, shrugs off and jumps into his bed. The arragement they make is just felt like an excuse to f*ck each other, I didn't fall for the reasons behind that.
2) Knowing how her father kinda dumped her in the middle of nowhere (she knew him dead for 17 yrs!) and married again, lived with that family. Shrugs off and forgives him.
3) Again and again, knowing Rohan, making up reasons and shrugging off the obvious to stay as his whore. *this could make, in different ways, at least 10 other points*
I mean, wtf? Is he the last man on earth or something? C'mon! GF tried to force some reasons behind all these and none of them convinced me. They are unrealistic, mostly annoying, like Kate herself. I couldn't believe she trusted Rohan so easily and ... Ugh!
Rohan is just as awful. Believe me I tried and tried to sympathize with him, even love him a little but couldn't (reminds me so much of Dane in LoS). Would you believe he needs to get screwed or screw anything vaguely women, after every killing mission? He needs to vent off that ... I don't know what by getting f*cked and anyone will do! That's very disturbing ... and disgusting. He even tells Kate in the last love scene (which was almost rape IMO) that he can't get his hands off her, he needs to keep f*cking her constantly for this. I mean really? When it all begin, I did feel that he's taking advantage of her in a vulnerable moment. No, couldn't just SHRUG IT OFF! He won't marry because of the curse (*oaf*) and he thinks he's not worthy enough since he kills people (yah that was a good try Rohan but me ... no, not feeling anything for you, sorry.)
So, attraction, yes ... Lust, oh certainly! But love? NOPE! Whatever Kate thinks, if being infatuated and then getting screwed is the only reason she thinks she's in love with him, I'm sorry but that's not love in my eyes. And, I'm pretty sure Rohan, whatever it is Gaelen Foley will try to force on us, won't be 'in love' with her.
There were moments, I thought yes, maybe now I'll see something of the old GF style, maybe Kate will say something now but no such luck. One incident was, after they return to London, Rohan's many high society whores, altogether, just barged into his house thinking they could ... you know what ... And, although Rohan wasn't at home, Kate was. And that was so ewww ... They exchanged words about it later but Kate, still didn't think it's time to show him her back. Rohan, in so many words, even tells her he can't give her anything else. I mean does she have any dignity at all? ... Again, would you believe, she didn't even think it through that Rohan might pass her up in the future like those women and go his merry way! *I was on the verge of tearing my hair out reading this* You'd think now she'll do something but NO! Then there were those misleading monologues about love and whatever by Kate. Seriously, I think she needs to see a psychiatrist because living in isolation made her insane.
I only felt pity for the two, nothing else. I have nothing else to comment on story wise either since most of it is based on what I've just mentioned. The other histories, I'm not interested to write about them and make this comment longer than it already is. They're about to go on the mission to find the Alchemist's tomb. I wanted to say, please continue without me!
I'm not finished yet, two more chapters left but honestly, from the moment they made that ridiculous arrangement (that was on chap 12 I think), I just wanted this book to end. I had a very different idea about the book, it could've been amazing with a different storyline, Rohan could've been a gorgeous, sexy SOB and Kate, someone I adore ... *sigh*
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Ok, the ending was quite an improvement. I liked it from the scene they got married which was sweet. The adventure part was good but I'd rather see it on TV than try to imagine the whole thing. There were scenes that were supposed to move you but I was so far gone with this one, even though some of their exchanges were heartwarming, I didn't quite enjoy them. Kate had to 'prove' in various ways she loves Rohan, but Rohan did what ...? *rolls eyes*
In the end, there were a few things for the next installments:
1) Drake's saved, there is the mention of a violet-eyed girl. Maybe his love/heroine? I really wanna read his book but kinda uncertain about the series now. BTW: What'll be the title since GF used all marquess, duke and earl in the 1st 3? Drake's an Earl too. :p
2) Viscount Beauchamp aka Beau is here, the last hero I think. Most probably, Daphne's friend Carissa would be his match.
3) The ending marked something for Jordan, the next hero.
So, giving it a 3 star. I was actually hovering between 2/2.5 but I liked the ending and 1st 11 chapters. So ... :/
Hmm, so ... Hmmmmm ... I'm not impressed with Rohan, yah, trying but not. I don't like the way he thinks and treats women. I sure as hell won't think about getting screwed by him if I was in Kate's place (she's daydreaming away about that) and yes, I would definitely be scared of my well-being. There I've said it.
Rohan thinks since his blood is cursed (ancient, mind you!), he can go screw almost anything in skirts (tall, short, blonde, brunette, thin, curvy ... yah it's all there), except virgins of course, who might want something else from him. Let me tell you about the curse, Warrington males kill their wives/brides, 'allegedly'! ... There is a scene where he tells Kate of all these, it was interesting but hello?! You're a lout of the first order Rohan! Cursed or not, living in a haunted castle (yah, he thinks his castle is haunted) or not. Apart from killing missions assigned by the Order, he likes to screw around (literally!) ... Ahemm, have I overdone it a bit? Well, he's a bit overdone himself. Doesn't matter he's a giant of a man with dark hair and silver eyes with a giant ... ahemm ... well ... There I go again! *zips her mouth about Rohan*
Now, Kate I found quite interesting, as long as she isn't thinking about getting shagged by him. I mean c'mon woman, be a little scared! I know I would be, whatever I heard about him and he didn't deny it. It's his past time, putting his 'killer mojo' up and ready! I read his gutter thoughts telling us:
His mind drifted, the wine warming his senses. It had now been three days since he’d had a woman, and he had not forgotten the way she had felt beneath him last night. He still wanted her in spite of himself.
WOW! That's loooong loooooong time! I see... Oh, you get the 'daily dose' right? Hmm ... Hell, there I go again (and again) ... But, what can I do? I have to keep up with him! Umm, hmm...
So, where was I? Oh, yes, so Kate was abducted from her home, where she was living alone and presented as a 'gift' to Rohan by his gang of pirates. There are a lotta twists and stuffs and histories (of Kate and Rohan, of the Order and the Counsel) but I won't go in there. The fact is, when Rohan isn't thinking about screwing her, he's kinda confused that she might be a spy of the Counsel (see: the history of Kate). So, now, Kate wants to go home but can't since it might be that her father is alive after all (fill in the blanks: the history of Kate). She has to 'stay' with Rohan in his castle. Oh, the misery! Rohan is a perfect gentleman now, at least outwardly, to her so she'd decided to trust him. I'm saying it again, I still think she's quite smart (at least smarter than Daphne) but this is sorta crazy. This whole storyline. I don't know what's gonna happen next, given that Rohan is having more and more of his 'unexpected (read: dead and buried) bouts of tenderness and possessiveness' towards her. Well, I guess, the obvious ...
I think this story, even though insane, is more interesting than My Wicked Marquess, because there are some scenes where I saw the glimpse of the 'old' Gaelen Foley (yup, decided to call her earlier works that) I so loved. I even felt that heady anticipation, though it didn't stay on for long.
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No, this story isn't AT ALL interesting. God, I'm feeling so frustrated. When you read a book knowing the author can write SO DAMN MUCH MORE BETTER and end up with some trash comparing to his/her earlier works, what do you do? This book is exactly that.
I thought Kate was smart, I take it back. She turned out to be exactly what her abductors said from the beginning, a dumba$$ wannabe whore. And, she later agrees to that herself, not the 'dumba$$' part, mind you! I never have respect, adoration for a heroine who makes herself an easy conquest, knowing what a pathetic moron (namely: rakes, a breed who'd screw anything in skirts!) the hero is. I had issues with SO DAMN MANY THINGS and her shrugging all those things off, ie:
1) Knowing what kinda man Rohan is, his past with women, shrugs off and jumps into his bed. The arragement they make is just felt like an excuse to f*ck each other, I didn't fall for the reasons behind that.
2) Knowing how her father kinda dumped her in the middle of nowhere (she knew him dead for 17 yrs!) and married again, lived with that family. Shrugs off and forgives him.
3) Again and again, knowing Rohan, making up reasons and shrugging off the obvious to stay as his whore. *this could make, in different ways, at least 10 other points*
I mean, wtf? Is he the last man on earth or something? C'mon! GF tried to force some reasons behind all these and none of them convinced me. They are unrealistic, mostly annoying, like Kate herself. I couldn't believe she trusted Rohan so easily and ... Ugh!
Rohan is just as awful. Believe me I tried and tried to sympathize with him, even love him a little but couldn't (reminds me so much of Dane in LoS). Would you believe he needs to get screwed or screw anything vaguely women, after every killing mission? He needs to vent off that ... I don't know what by getting f*cked and anyone will do! That's very disturbing ... and disgusting. He even tells Kate in the last love scene (which was almost rape IMO) that he can't get his hands off her, he needs to keep f*cking her constantly for this. I mean really? When it all begin, I did feel that he's taking advantage of her in a vulnerable moment. No, couldn't just SHRUG IT OFF! He won't marry because of the curse (*oaf*) and he thinks he's not worthy enough since he kills people (yah that was a good try Rohan but me ... no, not feeling anything for you, sorry.)
So, attraction, yes ... Lust, oh certainly! But love? NOPE! Whatever Kate thinks, if being infatuated and then getting screwed is the only reason she thinks she's in love with him, I'm sorry but that's not love in my eyes. And, I'm pretty sure Rohan, whatever it is Gaelen Foley will try to force on us, won't be 'in love' with her.
There were moments, I thought yes, maybe now I'll see something of the old GF style, maybe Kate will say something now but no such luck. One incident was, after they return to London, Rohan's many high society whores, altogether, just barged into his house thinking they could ... you know what ... And, although Rohan wasn't at home, Kate was. And that was so ewww ... They exchanged words about it later but Kate, still didn't think it's time to show him her back. Rohan, in so many words, even tells her he can't give her anything else. I mean does she have any dignity at all? ... Again, would you believe, she didn't even think it through that Rohan might pass her up in the future like those women and go his merry way! *I was on the verge of tearing my hair out reading this* You'd think now she'll do something but NO! Then there were those misleading monologues about love and whatever by Kate. Seriously, I think she needs to see a psychiatrist because living in isolation made her insane.
I only felt pity for the two, nothing else. I have nothing else to comment on story wise either since most of it is based on what I've just mentioned. The other histories, I'm not interested to write about them and make this comment longer than it already is. They're about to go on the mission to find the Alchemist's tomb. I wanted to say, please continue without me!
I'm not finished yet, two more chapters left but honestly, from the moment they made that ridiculous arrangement (that was on chap 12 I think), I just wanted this book to end. I had a very different idea about the book, it could've been amazing with a different storyline, Rohan could've been a gorgeous, sexy SOB and Kate, someone I adore ... *sigh*
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Ok, the ending was quite an improvement. I liked it from the scene they got married which was sweet. The adventure part was good but I'd rather see it on TV than try to imagine the whole thing. There were scenes that were supposed to move you but I was so far gone with this one, even though some of their exchanges were heartwarming, I didn't quite enjoy them. Kate had to 'prove' in various ways she loves Rohan, but Rohan did what ...? *rolls eyes*
In the end, there were a few things for the next installments:
1) Drake's saved, there is the mention of a violet-eyed girl. Maybe his love/heroine? I really wanna read his book but kinda uncertain about the series now. BTW: What'll be the title since GF used all marquess, duke and earl in the 1st 3? Drake's an Earl too. :p
2) Viscount Beauchamp aka Beau is here, the last hero I think. Most probably, Daphne's friend Carissa would be his match.
3) The ending marked something for Jordan, the next hero.
So, giving it a 3 star. I was actually hovering between 2/2.5 but I liked the ending and 1st 11 chapters. So ... :/
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 20, 2024
Review from 2017
I've given this a B for narration and a C for content at AudioGals, so that's 3.5 stars overall
I really struggled with the first few hours of My Dangerous Duke, and had I not been listening for review, there’s a good chance I might have abandoned it. The narration by Marian Hussey is fine – in fact, it’s the best thing about the audiobook – and she’s a massive improvement on Annette Chown, who narrated the previous instalment (My Wicked Marquess) in the Inferno Club series. But the early part of the story progresses at the speed of a snail moving through molasses and is weighed down by lots of irrelevant and overly descriptive prose, so much so that I wished (and here I’m dating myself) I could cut and splice large chunks of it so as to keep things moving.
Fortunately, however, things do start to pick up a bit after that, as the hero and heroine finally meet and begin interacting. The story is one of murky secrets, dark deeds and feats of derring-do; in fact, the last section of the book turns into a cross between Indiana Jones and a computer game, as our intrepid heroes head off on the trail of a hidden treasure. There are plenty of sparks flying between them, although I’m somewhat weary of the hero who believes he is unworthy of love because He is A Bad Man Who Does Bad Things – and that’s the source of most of the conflict in the romance. I also had to check the publication date of the book – 2010 – because there’s an old-skool feel to My Dangerous Duke (especially when it comes to some of the wince-inducing purple prose – I hope Ms. Hussey was well compensated for having to utter lines like this: He knew how to safely wield the oversized weapon with which Nature had endowed him) that made me think it must have been written in the 90s or earlier.
The book opens some weeks after the kidnap of our heroine, Kate Madsen, by a gang of local smugglers. Totally bewildered, she is kept in a dark cellar until, in the opening chapter, she’s taken out, drugged up to the eyeballs and taken to Kilburn Castle, where she’s going to be presented as a “gift” to Rohan Kilburn, the Duke of Warrington. The duke is large, dark, handsome, famously bad-tempered… oh, and he’s cursed. Apparently the Warrington dukes end up killing their wives (so he can never, ever get married) and the castle is haunted. Kate might have been barely able to stand up in the duke’s presence, but she is able to appreciate his impressive physique and his dark hotness. He’s also horny – but draws the line at shagging an unconscious woman after Kate passes out in his bed. When she wakes up the next morning, she’s intent on escape and flees, ending up perilously close to the edge of the crumbling cliffs… (oh, no!) She slips (OH, NO!) but is saved by Rohan (phew!) who pulls her to safety and takes her back to the castle where, finally, she gives him her side of the story, together with A Piece Of Her Mind. Once that’s all settled, Rohan questions one of his oldest associates, who tells Rohan that despite Kate’s protestations to the contrary, she is really Kate Fox, the daughter of famed pirate Gerald Fox and a French noblewoman who was the daughter of a member of the Promethean Council, the ages-old nemesis of the Inferno Club. (As explained in the previous book, The Promethean Council is kind of a Regency version of Hydra, intent on world domination).
So now, it’s all unsettled again, and Rohan goes back to thinking that Kate might be a spy. Except he doesn’t really think she is. Or does he? He wavers over that a fair bit while the time they spend together over the next couple of weeks only serves to strengthen the already intense attraction between them. Yet even though – as we’re told repeatedly – Rohan has a voracious sexual appetite, he behaves as a gentleman around Kate, even though wanting her so badly is frustrating the hell out of him.
All that changes, though, when Rohan agrees to escort Kate back to her cottage, only to discover that it’s been burned down. She’s utterly distraught – but has the presence of mind to retrieve the book left her by her mother which she’d hidden in one of the outbuildings. This book contains clues to the location of the tomb of Valerian the Alchemist, one of the Promethean’s greatest treasures and for which they have been searching for generations.
Kate has no family and nowhere to go – and Rohan sees his chance. He offers Kate carte blanche (yeah, what a prince!), something he’s never done before, preferring to bed lots of different women rather than keeping a long-term mistress. He also has it in his head that if she’s a virgin, he’ll trust her story that she knows nothing of her heritage and will know she’s not there to spy on him. I … really can’t think of anything to say about that other than WTF?
Thing is, Kate is just as hot for him as he is for her, so she agrees to his proposition. After all, what other options does she have? She’s been living in the castle for the past couple of weeks, so her reputation is ruined anyway; she has no family to go to and no other prospects, so she might as well take what Rohan is offering – a generous allowance and his gorgeous body. It’s only after they’ve slept together that Rohan finally tells Kate that truth about her past and how it intertwines with his own family history.
After this is where the story turns into Historical Tomb Raider. I won’t give any more plot details – the book is quite plot-heavy compared with some historicals, and while it’s a bit bonkers, it’s not impossible to enjoy provided you’re prepared to take it all with a large pinch of salt and use action movies and treasure-hunt games as your points of reference.
The biggest problem I had with the story, though, was that I never warmed to either of the central characters. I suspect that the forbearance Kate continually shows Rohan is meant to show what a forgiving, level-headed person she is, but most of the time, I found her too much of a doormat. And as I said at the outset, Rohan is your stereotypical darkly brooding hero with a chequered past, with nothing to distinguish him from the many, many others of his ilk.
I enjoy listening to Marian Hussey so I was pleased when this title showed up at Audible with her name attached to it. She’s an accomplished narrator on all counts; her pacing is excellent in both narrative and dialogue, she differentiates expertly between characters according to gender, age and station, and she is able to utilise a variety of regional accents to good effect. She’s also a very good vocal actress and is able to inject the right degree of emotion into any given scene, not going too far or giving too little. Kate’s dialogue sometimes sounds too whiny –but when I went back through the text to some of the examples I’d noted, I found the dialogue itself was whiny, so Ms. Hussey’s delivery is appropriate for what is on the page. Her male voices are generally good; hers is a mezzo-range voice, so she is able to sustain a lowered pitch for the men without it sounding strained. I did, however, notice a tendency to puff out a breath at the ends of phrases and sentences, particularly in Rohan’s speech, and especially when he was supposed to be shouting or angry. It’s difficult to describe in writing, but it’s almost as though she adds an extra syllable to the ends of words, so that a phrase like “See you soon”, comes out as “See you soon-ah”. I didn’t notice this happening with any of the female voices, and it didn’t happen with all the males – but it became quite obtrusive at times.
One thing I often notice when I listen to an audiobook is that repetitions of certain words and phrases stand out more than when I’m reading the book. Perhaps my aural memory is stronger than my visual one (I do tend to read pretty quickly, whereas an audiobook takes as long as it takes). In this, characters looking “askance” seems to be their favourite activity J
Once I got past the first two or three hours of My Dangerous Duke, it was an enjoyable enough romp, but is unlikely to be something I’ll listen to again. The pacing is very uneven – there are recurring instances of lengthy description that slow down the narrative – and the story is very slightly batshit, but if you’re in the mood to switch your brain off for a few hours and just go with the flow, the narration is good enough to carry the listener through the worst excesses. Mind you, I still stay Ms. Hussey deserves a medal for managing to utter lines about the hero’s “raging member” and his “notorious size” without corpsing.
I've given this a B for narration and a C for content at AudioGals, so that's 3.5 stars overall
I really struggled with the first few hours of My Dangerous Duke, and had I not been listening for review, there’s a good chance I might have abandoned it. The narration by Marian Hussey is fine – in fact, it’s the best thing about the audiobook – and she’s a massive improvement on Annette Chown, who narrated the previous instalment (My Wicked Marquess) in the Inferno Club series. But the early part of the story progresses at the speed of a snail moving through molasses and is weighed down by lots of irrelevant and overly descriptive prose, so much so that I wished (and here I’m dating myself) I could cut and splice large chunks of it so as to keep things moving.
Fortunately, however, things do start to pick up a bit after that, as the hero and heroine finally meet and begin interacting. The story is one of murky secrets, dark deeds and feats of derring-do; in fact, the last section of the book turns into a cross between Indiana Jones and a computer game, as our intrepid heroes head off on the trail of a hidden treasure. There are plenty of sparks flying between them, although I’m somewhat weary of the hero who believes he is unworthy of love because He is A Bad Man Who Does Bad Things – and that’s the source of most of the conflict in the romance. I also had to check the publication date of the book – 2010 – because there’s an old-skool feel to My Dangerous Duke (especially when it comes to some of the wince-inducing purple prose – I hope Ms. Hussey was well compensated for having to utter lines like this: He knew how to safely wield the oversized weapon with which Nature had endowed him) that made me think it must have been written in the 90s or earlier.
The book opens some weeks after the kidnap of our heroine, Kate Madsen, by a gang of local smugglers. Totally bewildered, she is kept in a dark cellar until, in the opening chapter, she’s taken out, drugged up to the eyeballs and taken to Kilburn Castle, where she’s going to be presented as a “gift” to Rohan Kilburn, the Duke of Warrington. The duke is large, dark, handsome, famously bad-tempered… oh, and he’s cursed. Apparently the Warrington dukes end up killing their wives (so he can never, ever get married) and the castle is haunted. Kate might have been barely able to stand up in the duke’s presence, but she is able to appreciate his impressive physique and his dark hotness. He’s also horny – but draws the line at shagging an unconscious woman after Kate passes out in his bed. When she wakes up the next morning, she’s intent on escape and flees, ending up perilously close to the edge of the crumbling cliffs… (oh, no!) She slips (OH, NO!) but is saved by Rohan (phew!) who pulls her to safety and takes her back to the castle where, finally, she gives him her side of the story, together with A Piece Of Her Mind. Once that’s all settled, Rohan questions one of his oldest associates, who tells Rohan that despite Kate’s protestations to the contrary, she is really Kate Fox, the daughter of famed pirate Gerald Fox and a French noblewoman who was the daughter of a member of the Promethean Council, the ages-old nemesis of the Inferno Club. (As explained in the previous book, The Promethean Council is kind of a Regency version of Hydra, intent on world domination).
So now, it’s all unsettled again, and Rohan goes back to thinking that Kate might be a spy. Except he doesn’t really think she is. Or does he? He wavers over that a fair bit while the time they spend together over the next couple of weeks only serves to strengthen the already intense attraction between them. Yet even though – as we’re told repeatedly – Rohan has a voracious sexual appetite, he behaves as a gentleman around Kate, even though wanting her so badly is frustrating the hell out of him.
All that changes, though, when Rohan agrees to escort Kate back to her cottage, only to discover that it’s been burned down. She’s utterly distraught – but has the presence of mind to retrieve the book left her by her mother which she’d hidden in one of the outbuildings. This book contains clues to the location of the tomb of Valerian the Alchemist, one of the Promethean’s greatest treasures and for which they have been searching for generations.
Kate has no family and nowhere to go – and Rohan sees his chance. He offers Kate carte blanche (yeah, what a prince!), something he’s never done before, preferring to bed lots of different women rather than keeping a long-term mistress. He also has it in his head that if she’s a virgin, he’ll trust her story that she knows nothing of her heritage and will know she’s not there to spy on him. I … really can’t think of anything to say about that other than WTF?
Thing is, Kate is just as hot for him as he is for her, so she agrees to his proposition. After all, what other options does she have? She’s been living in the castle for the past couple of weeks, so her reputation is ruined anyway; she has no family to go to and no other prospects, so she might as well take what Rohan is offering – a generous allowance and his gorgeous body. It’s only after they’ve slept together that Rohan finally tells Kate that truth about her past and how it intertwines with his own family history.
After this is where the story turns into Historical Tomb Raider. I won’t give any more plot details – the book is quite plot-heavy compared with some historicals, and while it’s a bit bonkers, it’s not impossible to enjoy provided you’re prepared to take it all with a large pinch of salt and use action movies and treasure-hunt games as your points of reference.
The biggest problem I had with the story, though, was that I never warmed to either of the central characters. I suspect that the forbearance Kate continually shows Rohan is meant to show what a forgiving, level-headed person she is, but most of the time, I found her too much of a doormat. And as I said at the outset, Rohan is your stereotypical darkly brooding hero with a chequered past, with nothing to distinguish him from the many, many others of his ilk.
I enjoy listening to Marian Hussey so I was pleased when this title showed up at Audible with her name attached to it. She’s an accomplished narrator on all counts; her pacing is excellent in both narrative and dialogue, she differentiates expertly between characters according to gender, age and station, and she is able to utilise a variety of regional accents to good effect. She’s also a very good vocal actress and is able to inject the right degree of emotion into any given scene, not going too far or giving too little. Kate’s dialogue sometimes sounds too whiny –but when I went back through the text to some of the examples I’d noted, I found the dialogue itself was whiny, so Ms. Hussey’s delivery is appropriate for what is on the page. Her male voices are generally good; hers is a mezzo-range voice, so she is able to sustain a lowered pitch for the men without it sounding strained. I did, however, notice a tendency to puff out a breath at the ends of phrases and sentences, particularly in Rohan’s speech, and especially when he was supposed to be shouting or angry. It’s difficult to describe in writing, but it’s almost as though she adds an extra syllable to the ends of words, so that a phrase like “See you soon”, comes out as “See you soon-ah”. I didn’t notice this happening with any of the female voices, and it didn’t happen with all the males – but it became quite obtrusive at times.
One thing I often notice when I listen to an audiobook is that repetitions of certain words and phrases stand out more than when I’m reading the book. Perhaps my aural memory is stronger than my visual one (I do tend to read pretty quickly, whereas an audiobook takes as long as it takes). In this, characters looking “askance” seems to be their favourite activity J
Once I got past the first two or three hours of My Dangerous Duke, it was an enjoyable enough romp, but is unlikely to be something I’ll listen to again. The pacing is very uneven – there are recurring instances of lengthy description that slow down the narrative – and the story is very slightly batshit, but if you’re in the mood to switch your brain off for a few hours and just go with the flow, the narration is good enough to carry the listener through the worst excesses. Mind you, I still stay Ms. Hussey deserves a medal for managing to utter lines about the hero’s “raging member” and his “notorious size” without corpsing.
December 19, 2024
2.5 stars
This was a really odd novel. I feel like the storyline was scattered but at the same time there was a very specific plot that I was neither interested in or understood.
The romance though? That is where the story excelled. The chemistry between the two main characters? Wow. Plus I loved the main character's protective alpha male attitude which I typically wouldn't lean towards but this novel did it right.
I wish I liked (and understood) the plot more because nearing the end, where there was real adventure, it came across as a mix of both "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Mummy" (both of which I love). However, I just don't think the plot was executed well enough. There were lots of details but none were laid out in an easy to read way.
This was a really odd novel. I feel like the storyline was scattered but at the same time there was a very specific plot that I was neither interested in or understood.
The romance though? That is where the story excelled. The chemistry between the two main characters? Wow. Plus I loved the main character's protective alpha male attitude which I typically wouldn't lean towards but this novel did it right.
I wish I liked (and understood) the plot more because nearing the end, where there was real adventure, it came across as a mix of both "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Mummy" (both of which I love). However, I just don't think the plot was executed well enough. There were lots of details but none were laid out in an easy to read way.
July 18, 2010
PWs, I have to tell you about this one. I usually don't post my smut novels, but this one had a line so bad, it had to be immediately posted for your giggles. Page 29 "If she was nervous of his size, she needn't have feared that, either. He knew how to safely wield the oversized weapon with which Nature had endowed him." Seriously. I usually like this author, so I will finish the book and rate it. But, that line is the worst I've ever read in a smut novel, I think--even though I am quite certain I have read (or jettisoned) worse smut novels as a whole.
Okay...so here's the rest. Got better, but still not outstanding. Not one of her better books, so I actually skimmed chunks. But, it's part of a trilogy or quartet of books, so I finished it. BTW, I don't think there was any sex until page 200 or something, so the reference to the weapon on p. 29 was even more bizarre.
Okay...so here's the rest. Got better, but still not outstanding. Not one of her better books, so I actually skimmed chunks. But, it's part of a trilogy or quartet of books, so I finished it. BTW, I don't think there was any sex until page 200 or something, so the reference to the weapon on p. 29 was even more bizarre.
July 27, 2010
Kate Madsen is no ordinary lady, for she is the daughter of a Pirate and is not afraid of anything. Until she is kidnapped and given to the Beast for a gift of pleasure.
Rohan Kilburn is known as the Beast and never plans to marry for the Curse of the Kilburn family haunts his dreams. Yet when he is givin his Gift Rohan never thought to feel the things Kate starts sturring in his blood.
As the battle that has upturned both their worlds rages outside so does their desire for each other rages inside.
Rohan Kilburn is known as the Beast and never plans to marry for the Curse of the Kilburn family haunts his dreams. Yet when he is givin his Gift Rohan never thought to feel the things Kate starts sturring in his blood.
As the battle that has upturned both their worlds rages outside so does their desire for each other rages inside.
January 17, 2016
Ugh whatever, I just wanted this book to end so badly. It just kept going and going. I love Gaelen Foley's plots and characters usually but this whole book to me was her trying to convince the reader, and Kate herself that Rohan wasn't an absolute asshole for I don't know, a shit ton of reasons? From their first meeting he took advantage of her, and honestly, he just kept taking advantage of her and manipulating her which was ugly. Anyway WHATEVER this romance was so bloody unconvincing and started on and ended on such sketchy beginnings. I didn't care for anyone.
August 19, 2018
La aventura y saga de los Prometeos y la Orden de San Miguel hacen sombra a la relación de ellos. Tiene buenos diálogos, a pesar de ser una narración muy descriptiva. Quizás no llegue a las 4 estrellas porque le vi actitudes propias de este siglo y se salta la etiqueta de la época. Saludar con la mano, apoyarse en columnas en un baile, utilizar expresiones modernas. Además me resultó algo empalagosa la evolución de La Bestia. Pasa de un hombre duro a un sensiblero terrible.
October 19, 2020
Sencillamente creo que no era su momento, lo he leído cuando no debía y eso ha pesado mucho, tiene partes muy buenas lo reconozco, pero he tenido que pasar hasta páginas
El tema del pirateo nunca me ha gustado mucho y los conflictos son demasiado simples , lo bueno que tiene que no demora la resolución de las cosas y no le da mucha coba, claro que de simples que son, se resuelven solas, este libro en otro momento podría tener algo más de valoración, en este caso no
El tema del pirateo nunca me ha gustado mucho y los conflictos son demasiado simples , lo bueno que tiene que no demora la resolución de las cosas y no le da mucha coba, claro que de simples que son, se resuelven solas, este libro en otro momento podría tener algo más de valoración, en este caso no
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December 13, 2023DNF
Two things have bothered me right from the start. And when I went to read a few other reviews, I realised that these two things are a constant throughout the whole story.
Sadly, I can't fully finish My Dangerous Duke.
Two things have bothered me right from the start. And when I went to read a few other reviews, I realised that these two things are a constant throughout the whole story.
Sadly, I can't fully finish My Dangerous Duke.
November 2, 2017
Leído en Junio 2011
Estuvo bueno...
Estuvo bueno...
December 16, 2017
Cehennem Kulübü serisi hızını kesmeden Davetsiz Misafir ile devam ediyor.
Serinin ilk kitabını büyük bir keyifle okuyup devam kitabına heyecanla başladım. İlk kitabın yakışıklı kahramanı Rotherstone Markisi ve arkadaşlarının üyesi olduğu Cehennem Kulübü’nü, neye hizmet ettiklerini ve ne için savaştıklarını öğrendik. Nesilden nesile geçen aristokratlardan oluşan bu gizli Teşkilat’ın asıl amacı insanları doğru olana sevk edip, dünyayı kötülerden korumak. Düşmanlarının "Canavar" lakabıyla korkulu rüyası olan Warrington Dükü'nün hikayesini "Davetsiz Misafir" ile okuyoruz. Heyecanı üst seviyede olduğunu ilk kitaba göre bir tık daha fazla öne geçtiğini ilave etmem gerekecek. Daha olaylı daha maceralı ve daha aşk temalı bir kitaptı serinin ikincisi. Karakterleri de ayrı sevdim. Canavar olarak bilinen birine göre çok yufka yürekliydi Rohan, vicdanlı ve sevgi dolu bir kalbi var ama düşmanlarının da korkulu rüyası... Kate ise kitap aşığı, bir oda dolusu kitabı olsun başka şey istemez, son derece zeki ve esprili bir kadın. Kendi sakin dünyasından koparıldığında başına geleceklerden korksa da bazı gerçekler ortaya çıktıkça heyecan doruklara ulaştı.
Dük Rohan sorumluluğu altındaki kaçakçıların başlarına iş açmasıyla birlikte geri dönmek zorunda kalır. Gittiğinde karşılaştığı durum farklıdır, kızgınlığına kurban gitmek istemeyen kaçakçılar ona bir hediye verirler. Dük'ün hediyesi ise esmer güzeli bir kadındır. Kadının sarhoş bir fahişe olduğunu düşünür ama göründüğünün ötesinde ciddi bir mesele vardır. Rohan, kadını tanıdıkça ve bütün gerçekler ortaya çıktıkça hem şaşkına uğrar hem de çok fazla öfkelenmesine sebep olur. Bir yandan da o korkulası Canavar kalbini bu esmer güzeli kadına kaptırır.
Kate ise bir gece evinde, sıcak şöminesinin başında çay içerek kitap okumaya hazırlanırken evini badan üç adam tarafından kaçırılır. Neden kaçırıldığı ya da niye onu seçtikleri hakkında bir fikri yoktur. Hayatı, dahası kendisi hakkında bilmediği birçok sırları vardır. Sırlar açığa çıktıkça ve düğümler yavaş yavaş çözüldükça Rohan öğrendikleri karşısında Kate'den bir süre şüphelenmiştir de.
Rohan’ın aileden gelen bir laneti de vardır. Nesiller boyu Rotherstone lordları leydilerinin bir şekilde ölümlerine sebep olmuştur ve Rohan bu lanete ve kalesinde hayaletlerin olduğuna inanır. Kate'e aşık olması ise onu zorlar, evlilik fikrinden de uzak kaldığı için çözümü farklı yolda bulur. Özgürlükçüler ile soyunun bağlantısı olan Kate, teşkilat mensubu olan Rohan birlikte bir maceraya atılır. Ne mi olur? Devamı kitapta...
444 sayfa boyunca temposu bir an olsun düşmeyen, eğlenceli, macerayla aşkın iyi harmanlandığı bir kitaptı. Davetsiz Misafir’i çok beğendim ben, Rohan serideki favori karakterin ilan etmiş bulunmaktayım ama Drake’i çok fena merak ettiğim de bir gerçek. Umarım yeni yılda serinin devamını daha sık şekilde geldiğini görür ve bir an önce okuruz.
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Serinin ilk kitabını büyük bir keyifle okuyup devam kitabına heyecanla başladım. İlk kitabın yakışıklı kahramanı Rotherstone Markisi ve arkadaşlarının üyesi olduğu Cehennem Kulübü’nü, neye hizmet ettiklerini ve ne için savaştıklarını öğrendik. Nesilden nesile geçen aristokratlardan oluşan bu gizli Teşkilat’ın asıl amacı insanları doğru olana sevk edip, dünyayı kötülerden korumak. Düşmanlarının "Canavar" lakabıyla korkulu rüyası olan Warrington Dükü'nün hikayesini "Davetsiz Misafir" ile okuyoruz. Heyecanı üst seviyede olduğunu ilk kitaba göre bir tık daha fazla öne geçtiğini ilave etmem gerekecek. Daha olaylı daha maceralı ve daha aşk temalı bir kitaptı serinin ikincisi. Karakterleri de ayrı sevdim. Canavar olarak bilinen birine göre çok yufka yürekliydi Rohan, vicdanlı ve sevgi dolu bir kalbi var ama düşmanlarının da korkulu rüyası... Kate ise kitap aşığı, bir oda dolusu kitabı olsun başka şey istemez, son derece zeki ve esprili bir kadın. Kendi sakin dünyasından koparıldığında başına geleceklerden korksa da bazı gerçekler ortaya çıktıkça heyecan doruklara ulaştı.
Dük Rohan sorumluluğu altındaki kaçakçıların başlarına iş açmasıyla birlikte geri dönmek zorunda kalır. Gittiğinde karşılaştığı durum farklıdır, kızgınlığına kurban gitmek istemeyen kaçakçılar ona bir hediye verirler. Dük'ün hediyesi ise esmer güzeli bir kadındır. Kadının sarhoş bir fahişe olduğunu düşünür ama göründüğünün ötesinde ciddi bir mesele vardır. Rohan, kadını tanıdıkça ve bütün gerçekler ortaya çıktıkça hem şaşkına uğrar hem de çok fazla öfkelenmesine sebep olur. Bir yandan da o korkulası Canavar kalbini bu esmer güzeli kadına kaptırır.
Kate ise bir gece evinde, sıcak şöminesinin başında çay içerek kitap okumaya hazırlanırken evini badan üç adam tarafından kaçırılır. Neden kaçırıldığı ya da niye onu seçtikleri hakkında bir fikri yoktur. Hayatı, dahası kendisi hakkında bilmediği birçok sırları vardır. Sırlar açığa çıktıkça ve düğümler yavaş yavaş çözüldükça Rohan öğrendikleri karşısında Kate'den bir süre şüphelenmiştir de.
Rohan’ın aileden gelen bir laneti de vardır. Nesiller boyu Rotherstone lordları leydilerinin bir şekilde ölümlerine sebep olmuştur ve Rohan bu lanete ve kalesinde hayaletlerin olduğuna inanır. Kate'e aşık olması ise onu zorlar, evlilik fikrinden de uzak kaldığı için çözümü farklı yolda bulur. Özgürlükçüler ile soyunun bağlantısı olan Kate, teşkilat mensubu olan Rohan birlikte bir maceraya atılır. Ne mi olur? Devamı kitapta...
444 sayfa boyunca temposu bir an olsun düşmeyen, eğlenceli, macerayla aşkın iyi harmanlandığı bir kitaptı. Davetsiz Misafir’i çok beğendim ben, Rohan serideki favori karakterin ilan etmiş bulunmaktayım ama Drake’i çok fena merak ettiğim de bir gerçek. Umarım yeni yılda serinin devamını daha sık şekilde geldiğini görür ve bir an önce okuruz.
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October 19, 2010
My Dangerous Duke is the second book in Gaelen Foley's Inferno Club series. Kate Madsen is abducted from her home by a band of thieves and offered up to Rohan Kilburn as a gift. Rohan is known by most as "The Beast". Those who look upon his ferocious countenance fear his wrath. Kate is taken to his estate, drugged and against her will as a peace offering of sorts. Fortunately for Kate, Rohan might be a Beast, but he also is intelligent and easily realizes that Kate is much more complicated than she seems. Her mysterious origins, once discovered, lead Rohan to make a tough decision when it comes to their future.
I have always enjoyed Gaelen Foley's writing. One of my favorite historical romance books is The Duke which was written about ten years ago. I read the first book in this series and I wasn't too crazy about it. However, I enjoyed My Dangerous Duke more than I did My Wicked Marquess. First of all, I enjoyed the setting and characters. The book sets a very gothic feel to the mood by residing in the gloomy winter time off the cliffs of Cornwall. Kate is taken to a dark and dismal castle complete with dungeons. Rohan is a Beast of a man with a surly disposition and plenty of scars, both mental and physical.
I wouldn't necessarily say My Dangerous Duke is breaking any new ground with this story. Yet, I found the characters enjoyable and the writing entertaining and fast paced. There were a few times I was annoyed with Rohan and his tendency to jump to conclusions where Kate was concerned. Fortunately, he quickly comes to his senses and realizes Kate is not hiding anything from him. What you see is what you get with Kate. She really is a sweet and likable heroine. I also enjoyed how Kate and Rohan work together at the end of the book to solve the mystery pertaining to Kate's heritage. I found My Dangerous Duke to be a fine historical romance, one certainly worth giving a try if you haven't ever tried Ms. Foley before.
I have always enjoyed Gaelen Foley's writing. One of my favorite historical romance books is The Duke which was written about ten years ago. I read the first book in this series and I wasn't too crazy about it. However, I enjoyed My Dangerous Duke more than I did My Wicked Marquess. First of all, I enjoyed the setting and characters. The book sets a very gothic feel to the mood by residing in the gloomy winter time off the cliffs of Cornwall. Kate is taken to a dark and dismal castle complete with dungeons. Rohan is a Beast of a man with a surly disposition and plenty of scars, both mental and physical.
I wouldn't necessarily say My Dangerous Duke is breaking any new ground with this story. Yet, I found the characters enjoyable and the writing entertaining and fast paced. There were a few times I was annoyed with Rohan and his tendency to jump to conclusions where Kate was concerned. Fortunately, he quickly comes to his senses and realizes Kate is not hiding anything from him. What you see is what you get with Kate. She really is a sweet and likable heroine. I also enjoyed how Kate and Rohan work together at the end of the book to solve the mystery pertaining to Kate's heritage. I found My Dangerous Duke to be a fine historical romance, one certainly worth giving a try if you haven't ever tried Ms. Foley before.
July 2, 2016
This was a very forgettable book for me. I really enjoyed Gaelen's The Duke, mostly because the story was centered around the main characters, and there was angst, and love, and pain, and regret, and above lots of grovelling and forgiveness. In this series Gaelen spends too much time on the cult/mystery aspects of the story and spends very little time on the love story between the characters. I was skim reading after two chapters or something.
Not my kind of book.
Not my kind of book.
November 30, 2017
A great beginning to this novel but unfortunately the author lost momentum and the story just kept getting a bit bland at times. The heroine started off as being very strong minded and independent but after she got intimate with the H, she became a bit too tamed. The H took a very long time to come terms with his love for the heroine. The secondary story line kept me more entertained when the romantic relationship between the H and H became stagnant.
March 19, 2019
3,5 / 5
July 29, 2011
Here is a historical romance that is for the truly serious lover of the genre and who finds the complicated story and extensive cast of characters stimulating and educational in its own way. Such are the novels of Gaelen Foley and those who are in possession of such a hunger for novels that are meaty in their content and written with flair and vivre, this is their kind of book. This is what one reviewer called an " . . . improbable spy story" complete with the undercover government agents disguised as a social club of debauched aristocrats on the one side, and a hidden group of people who for generations have been plotting and carrying out their grandiose plans for world domination. Yet the real story here that carries the action forward is the involvement of Rohan, Duke of Warrington, and Kate Madsen, an abductee who has been caught up in the mysterious hunt for treasure and information that surrounds the duke. Kept in captivity for five weeks, she is ultimately presented to Rohan as "a gift" and one he freely accepts believing that she is a whore given to him by his colleagues for his pleasure and as a way to insure his good moods. Known as "the Beast," Rohan is known for his temper and for the rather bizaare ways in which he demonstrates his disfavor.
The Duke is one of the most powerful men in England and yet he has chosen to allow his family line to die, all due to his rather weird belief in a family curse. That he is an accomplished assassin enhances this belief and has now driven this man to choose never to marry. That he ultimately becomes attracted to Kate in something of an obsessed way is never in doubt but whether or not he is willing to own up to loving her is another matter altogether. And while Kate's eventual love for Rohan opens her to possible hurt and rejection, she is a woman who knows her own mind and one who is willing to allow her considerable intellect to have a say in the way she fashions her future. Kate is indeed one of those very unusual women who has lived on her own for most of her life and who has come to believe that the lonely, sedentary life is what lay ahead for her. Rohan is drawn to her capacity for surviving experiences that would have reduced many a fine miss to hysterics and through her cool awreness of the situations in which she finds herself, is willing to allow Rohan liberties, but she is not sure if she is willing to allow him to shape her entire future.
This novel is really about the paralyzing power of fear to change one's perspective to the degree that they opt out of living. It is also about the age-old battle between good and evil, an evil that has pervaded some families for generations and which is threatening to upend society as it was known in that day. It is also about the power of authentic love to overwhelm fear, to rejuvenate and to remake, to empower and to renew, even when disillusionment has taken all the vitality out of one's life. Ms Foley writes complicated novels, and this book is no exception. A second book in the Inferno Club series, this novel continues the saga of those intrepid investigators that feel like they are always on the verge of a breakthrough. It is also about the power of that same love to bring light and understanding into minds, hearts, and circumstances that have slowly but surely come to a point where all the key figures dwell in darkness, literally and figuratively.
I found this novel to be compelling in its scope and extensively well-researched. The segments that dealt with the danger and all its attributes have slowly become dark spaces in Rohan's life and his undercover activities as an assassin are at the point where they are threatening to push out any semblance of light in his mind. There were times when I felt the political and baldly historical passages almost overwhelmed the book and I have to admit that after awhile I felt inundated and had to lay the book down. Yet the joy of this book is its unrelenting attention to Rohan & Kate's relationship that never is allowed to falter. There are a number of surprises that caught me off guard, but I happen to like that. It's sort of Fibber McGee's closet--it just opens up and falls all over you when you least expect it. Only the best writers really know how to do that.
So I recommend this book as one that is worthy of sinking one's teeth into deeply, and one which will hold your interest, at least the love story part of it. True historical romance fiction fans will find this new and different and that departure from the usual historical romance refreshing.
I give it a rating of 4.25 out of 5.
This review was originally posted on Book Binge by Judith.
The Duke is one of the most powerful men in England and yet he has chosen to allow his family line to die, all due to his rather weird belief in a family curse. That he is an accomplished assassin enhances this belief and has now driven this man to choose never to marry. That he ultimately becomes attracted to Kate in something of an obsessed way is never in doubt but whether or not he is willing to own up to loving her is another matter altogether. And while Kate's eventual love for Rohan opens her to possible hurt and rejection, she is a woman who knows her own mind and one who is willing to allow her considerable intellect to have a say in the way she fashions her future. Kate is indeed one of those very unusual women who has lived on her own for most of her life and who has come to believe that the lonely, sedentary life is what lay ahead for her. Rohan is drawn to her capacity for surviving experiences that would have reduced many a fine miss to hysterics and through her cool awreness of the situations in which she finds herself, is willing to allow Rohan liberties, but she is not sure if she is willing to allow him to shape her entire future.
This novel is really about the paralyzing power of fear to change one's perspective to the degree that they opt out of living. It is also about the age-old battle between good and evil, an evil that has pervaded some families for generations and which is threatening to upend society as it was known in that day. It is also about the power of authentic love to overwhelm fear, to rejuvenate and to remake, to empower and to renew, even when disillusionment has taken all the vitality out of one's life. Ms Foley writes complicated novels, and this book is no exception. A second book in the Inferno Club series, this novel continues the saga of those intrepid investigators that feel like they are always on the verge of a breakthrough. It is also about the power of that same love to bring light and understanding into minds, hearts, and circumstances that have slowly but surely come to a point where all the key figures dwell in darkness, literally and figuratively.
I found this novel to be compelling in its scope and extensively well-researched. The segments that dealt with the danger and all its attributes have slowly become dark spaces in Rohan's life and his undercover activities as an assassin are at the point where they are threatening to push out any semblance of light in his mind. There were times when I felt the political and baldly historical passages almost overwhelmed the book and I have to admit that after awhile I felt inundated and had to lay the book down. Yet the joy of this book is its unrelenting attention to Rohan & Kate's relationship that never is allowed to falter. There are a number of surprises that caught me off guard, but I happen to like that. It's sort of Fibber McGee's closet--it just opens up and falls all over you when you least expect it. Only the best writers really know how to do that.
So I recommend this book as one that is worthy of sinking one's teeth into deeply, and one which will hold your interest, at least the love story part of it. True historical romance fiction fans will find this new and different and that departure from the usual historical romance refreshing.
I give it a rating of 4.25 out of 5.
This review was originally posted on Book Binge by Judith.
October 27, 2013
Kitabın Adı : Davetsiz Misafir
Yazar Adı : Gaelen Foley
Goodreads Puanı : 5/3,88
Puanım 5/4
Cehennem Kulübü serisinin ikinci kitabı Davetsiz Misafir Orjianl Adı My Dangerous Duke'de bu sefer ki hikaye Warrington Dükü Rohan Kilburn'a aitti..Napolyon döneminde geçen bir hikaye..
Rohan'ın ailesinin erkekleri kuşaklar boyunca Cehennem Kulübüne hizmet etmiş olduğu için bu görevden kaçış yoktu..Sekiz yaşından itibaren bu görev için eğitilmişti.Başarılı olmak babasının bıraktığı ismi hakkı ile temsil etmek için kendini bu illegal hükümet tarafından gizlice desteklenen kulübe adamıştı.Yaptıkları normal bir insanın yapabileceği şeyler değildi.Yaşadıkları ve yapmak zorunda kaldıkları yüzünden normal bir kadının onun hayatına pek dayanabileceğini sanmıyordu..Ailesinden geldiğine inandığı bir lanet de vardı .. Kilburn erkeklerinin kadınlarının ölümlerinin aile erkekleri yüzünden olduğuna inanıyordu...İşte bu yüzden kimseye bağlanmamaya ve evlenmemeye de yemin etmişti..
Şimdiye kadar kadınlarla gelip geçici ilişkiler kurmuş ve onlara bağlanmamıştı..Kate Madsen ile karşılaşıncaya kadar...
Kendisine bağlı adamlarından O'Banyon ona yaranmak için Kate Madsen isimli genç kızı fahişe olarak sunmak için kaçırarak getirir..Genç kız bir fahişe gibi süslenerek ona sunulur..Fakat mücadele eden Kate'i zapt etmek kolay değildir o yüzden onu etkisiz hale getirmek için afyon ruhu verirler.Genç kız yarı sarhoş yarı ayık Rohan'a sunulur.
Kate yıllar önce babasını kaybetmiş yalnız yaşayan bir genç kızdır..Babasını kaybettikten sosyal ortama pek çıkmamış kendine kitaplara vermiş bir kitap kurdudur..Babasını kaybettikten sonra ondan kalan emekter hizmetkar da öldükten sonra kimsesi kalmamıştır.
Küçüklüğünde annesine ait çok şey hatırlamamakta onu ölümünü ve babasının büyük pişmanlığını anımsamakta..Babasının bıraktığı miras ile kimseye muhtaç olmadan kitapları ile birlikte kendine kurduğu bir dünyada yaşamaktadır..
Bir akşam kitap okurken bilmediği adamlar tarafından kaçırılarak 5-6 hafta bir yerde zorla tutulmuş kendisinin tanımadığı Kate Fox olduğu ileri sürülmüştür.,Kate önce sunulduğu adama Kate Madsen olduğunu ispatlamak ve ondan yardım istmek zorunda olduğunu anlamıştır. Fakat verilen uyuşturucu yüzünden de bir türlü aklını toparlayamamaktadır.
Rohan ise getirilen genç kızdan çok beğenip etkilenmişse de Kate 'in uyuşturudan sızıp kalmasından sonra onunla birlikte olmayı kendine yedirmez..
Kate ise ertesi sabah kaçmaya çalışır ama kaçamadığı gibi mutlak bir ölümden Rohan sayesinde kurtulur.Onu kaçıran adamlardan Calep Doyle'in ifadesine başvuran Rohan Kate'in kimliğindeki şüphenin giderilmesi için kendisi ile bir süre daha kalmasına karar verir.
Çete adamlarının Kate'i Özgürlükçüleri kaptanı Kaptan Gerald Fox ve Simyacılıkla olan büyüler ile ilgili aileden gelen Leydi Gabriel'in kızı olduğunda ısrarcıdırlar. Eğer bu gerçekse özgürlükçülerin önemli bir ferdi elinde olması onların ellerinde esir olan Cehennem Kulübü üyesi Drake'e ulaşmalarına onlara ait büyük hazineye ulaşmalarına onlara büyük bir darbe vurmaya da neden olacaktır..
Kate ise bu sert adamdan çok etkilenmekte şimdiye kadar hissetmediği duyguları hissetme bu vahşi ve tehlikeli Dük' doğru çekilmekte olduğunu fark eder duygularını tahlil edememektedir. Rohan bu güzel kitap kurdunun etrafında olmasına her geçen gün daha da alışmakta onun ile sohbetlerini onun bilgeliğini kültürünü sevmekte iken güzelliğinden her geçen gün daha çok etkilenmektedir...
Bu seriyi çok sevdim kısaca..Napolyon dönemindeki esrarengiz olaylar,entirikalar ile örülü güzel tutkulu bir aşk ile taçlandırılmış güzel bir hikaye idi..Çevirisinden her hangi bir rahatsızlık duymadığım gibi kitap akıyordu..Tek sıkıntı serideki yayın tarihleri arasındaki uzunluklar..Takdir edersiniz ki casusluk olayları ile kurgulanmış bu serinin daha yakın sürede yayımlanması gerekiyor bence..Çünkü arası uzadıkça bir önceki kitabı elimize alıp tekrar bir gözden geçirmemiz gerekiyor...
Yayınevi umarım bu seriyi bu iki kitapdaki gibi başarılı şekilde yayınlamaya devam eder..Ne diyelim historical seviyorsanız casusluk ve macera hikayelerine meraklı iseniz güzel ve tutkulu aşkıda seviyorsanız bu roman tam size göre...
Bu yazarı ben es geçmeyin...
Yazar Adı : Gaelen Foley
Goodreads Puanı : 5/3,88
Puanım 5/4
Cehennem Kulübü serisinin ikinci kitabı Davetsiz Misafir Orjianl Adı My Dangerous Duke'de bu sefer ki hikaye Warrington Dükü Rohan Kilburn'a aitti..Napolyon döneminde geçen bir hikaye..
Rohan'ın ailesinin erkekleri kuşaklar boyunca Cehennem Kulübüne hizmet etmiş olduğu için bu görevden kaçış yoktu..Sekiz yaşından itibaren bu görev için eğitilmişti.Başarılı olmak babasının bıraktığı ismi hakkı ile temsil etmek için kendini bu illegal hükümet tarafından gizlice desteklenen kulübe adamıştı.Yaptıkları normal bir insanın yapabileceği şeyler değildi.Yaşadıkları ve yapmak zorunda kaldıkları yüzünden normal bir kadının onun hayatına pek dayanabileceğini sanmıyordu..Ailesinden geldiğine inandığı bir lanet de vardı .. Kilburn erkeklerinin kadınlarının ölümlerinin aile erkekleri yüzünden olduğuna inanıyordu...İşte bu yüzden kimseye bağlanmamaya ve evlenmemeye de yemin etmişti..
Şimdiye kadar kadınlarla gelip geçici ilişkiler kurmuş ve onlara bağlanmamıştı..Kate Madsen ile karşılaşıncaya kadar...
Kendisine bağlı adamlarından O'Banyon ona yaranmak için Kate Madsen isimli genç kızı fahişe olarak sunmak için kaçırarak getirir..Genç kız bir fahişe gibi süslenerek ona sunulur..Fakat mücadele eden Kate'i zapt etmek kolay değildir o yüzden onu etkisiz hale getirmek için afyon ruhu verirler.Genç kız yarı sarhoş yarı ayık Rohan'a sunulur.
Kate yıllar önce babasını kaybetmiş yalnız yaşayan bir genç kızdır..Babasını kaybettikten sosyal ortama pek çıkmamış kendine kitaplara vermiş bir kitap kurdudur..Babasını kaybettikten sonra ondan kalan emekter hizmetkar da öldükten sonra kimsesi kalmamıştır.
Küçüklüğünde annesine ait çok şey hatırlamamakta onu ölümünü ve babasının büyük pişmanlığını anımsamakta..Babasının bıraktığı miras ile kimseye muhtaç olmadan kitapları ile birlikte kendine kurduğu bir dünyada yaşamaktadır..
Bir akşam kitap okurken bilmediği adamlar tarafından kaçırılarak 5-6 hafta bir yerde zorla tutulmuş kendisinin tanımadığı Kate Fox olduğu ileri sürülmüştür.,Kate önce sunulduğu adama Kate Madsen olduğunu ispatlamak ve ondan yardım istmek zorunda olduğunu anlamıştır. Fakat verilen uyuşturucu yüzünden de bir türlü aklını toparlayamamaktadır.
Rohan ise getirilen genç kızdan çok beğenip etkilenmişse de Kate 'in uyuşturudan sızıp kalmasından sonra onunla birlikte olmayı kendine yedirmez..
Kate ise ertesi sabah kaçmaya çalışır ama kaçamadığı gibi mutlak bir ölümden Rohan sayesinde kurtulur.Onu kaçıran adamlardan Calep Doyle'in ifadesine başvuran Rohan Kate'in kimliğindeki şüphenin giderilmesi için kendisi ile bir süre daha kalmasına karar verir.
Çete adamlarının Kate'i Özgürlükçüleri kaptanı Kaptan Gerald Fox ve Simyacılıkla olan büyüler ile ilgili aileden gelen Leydi Gabriel'in kızı olduğunda ısrarcıdırlar. Eğer bu gerçekse özgürlükçülerin önemli bir ferdi elinde olması onların ellerinde esir olan Cehennem Kulübü üyesi Drake'e ulaşmalarına onlara ait büyük hazineye ulaşmalarına onlara büyük bir darbe vurmaya da neden olacaktır..
Kate ise bu sert adamdan çok etkilenmekte şimdiye kadar hissetmediği duyguları hissetme bu vahşi ve tehlikeli Dük' doğru çekilmekte olduğunu fark eder duygularını tahlil edememektedir. Rohan bu güzel kitap kurdunun etrafında olmasına her geçen gün daha da alışmakta onun ile sohbetlerini onun bilgeliğini kültürünü sevmekte iken güzelliğinden her geçen gün daha çok etkilenmektedir...
Bu seriyi çok sevdim kısaca..Napolyon dönemindeki esrarengiz olaylar,entirikalar ile örülü güzel tutkulu bir aşk ile taçlandırılmış güzel bir hikaye idi..Çevirisinden her hangi bir rahatsızlık duymadığım gibi kitap akıyordu..Tek sıkıntı serideki yayın tarihleri arasındaki uzunluklar..Takdir edersiniz ki casusluk olayları ile kurgulanmış bu serinin daha yakın sürede yayımlanması gerekiyor bence..Çünkü arası uzadıkça bir önceki kitabı elimize alıp tekrar bir gözden geçirmemiz gerekiyor...
Yayınevi umarım bu seriyi bu iki kitapdaki gibi başarılı şekilde yayınlamaya devam eder..Ne diyelim historical seviyorsanız casusluk ve macera hikayelerine meraklı iseniz güzel ve tutkulu aşkıda seviyorsanız bu roman tam size göre...
Bu yazarı ben es geçmeyin...
March 29, 2013
When Kate is kidnapped from her home, drugged, and taken to the home of the Duke of Warrington, she doesn't know what to make of him. He is very mysterious, very handsome in a very sinful way, and he makes her body heat with just one look. However he is always questioning her, and she is the innocent one in all of this, but as they both get closer to the truth, the closer the danger gets, the more intense their desire for each other escalates into a powerful love even though they know its dangerous....My Dangerous Duke is the second in the series, and again I am reading this series out of order,but even though it would be nice to read it in order, sometimes I get too impatient, and I just grab what I can find. I have found that it can be read out of order, but then again I can catch on pretty easily....My Dangerous Duke starts out wit Kate being drugged, and you see that she is really courageous and faces up to Rohan not knowing if he is the type of man to rape or not, but she soon finds out that he is not what the legend say. Rohan, has stayed away from his home in the country for a very good reason, but now he has to be there at least for a little while. Rohan, is very suspicious of Kate especially through the first half of the book, however we start to see that once you bang your head enough then eventually you will start to see reason. It was pretty funny to see Rohan and Kate clash against each other, there was also a sexual tension through the whole story that keeps one captivated, and could fog one's windows if your not careful....I just loved the danger aspect to the plot, it just kept me on the edge of my seat the majority of the time, and the mystery was a perfect element to the book, and added a sense intrigue and excitement that becomes very engaging....and the detail of the events that happen are very vivid in a certain way.....A exciting thrill of a romance!!!
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