Cupid's Dart

by Maggie Mackeever

Miss Georgina Halliday never expected that a meeting with her old acquaintance, Lord Warwick, would end in a passionate kiss. Common sense decrees that she put the embrace out of her mind at once, not easily accomplished when every meeting stirs up feelings that are quite distracting.

Genres: Romance, Regency, Historical Romance

253 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

About the author

Ever since I learned to read, I have loved books.

For almost as long, I have made up tales.

I’ve written horrible poetry, better short stories, adequate commercials, educational and industrial film narration, and very forgettable screenplays. Once I learned how to make a story last longer than a few paragraphs I moved on to novels, and there I stayed. I've written forty-three to date.

In addition to my website, I have a (sporadic) blog at http://maggiemackeever.wordpress.com/

Reviews

[Eden · Rating 4 out of 5]

2021 bk 229. Found another one of Mackeever's on my shelves. I liked this better than the first. The characters were stronger, and with the exception of one, didn't seem to be lacking in sense. In this book a spinster living quietly in Brighton with her cousin is beset by a wounded brother (suffering from injuries and PTSD), the dreamboat of her adolescent/teen years, her lacking in sense best friend, and new acquaintances - all with problems they bring to her. Quite an mad romp is carried out in this book.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Humorous but not a LOL book. There are an interesting bunch of characters in this lighthearted tale - Georgiana (Lady Georgiana Halliday officially) that has to deal with the odd people in her life. Lord Warwick is the love interest but has to deal with the gossipmongers - did he kill his wife? If not, what happened to her? Is he free to marry Georgiana? Marigold is Georgiana's friend, that is on the run and hides herself in Georgie's home. There's also Sarah-Louise, a young heiress but "a tall bean pole with freckles" and socially inept that is being pushed into marriage by her aunt but in the meantime, she's in love with an outrageous "poet". What makes this story more interesting is the way the author reveals information about the characters. Gradually throughout the story, you find out more and more about the people and their pasts. This was good fluff. It didn't take too long to read it.

[Kimikimi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author did so much research for this book, and I really have to applaud her for that. Her use of the vernacular is a bit much though, it's like she went through a regency dictionary and decided to use all the words at once. There's one character who is completely illegible because of this.

I also found the three couple idea a bit ambitious. She has the "young lovers" just in the first blush of innocent youth. She has the "jaded fallen woman" and her "dangerous (and exotic) lover. And lastly the main couple, "forgotten but super intelligent spinster, worth more then everyone else put together" and her "childhood friend who also happens to be nobility and also a misunderstood rake". add in all the name dropping and it all becomes a bit too much, but still the best of the three I've read this week.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked Georgiana's spirit and independence, and her confidence in living her life differently from the rest of the ton. Lump, the dog, was my favorite character, which doesn't say a lot for this book.

[LemontreeLime · Rating 1 out of 5]

There should be another option called 'couldnt finish' in the listings rather than just 'read'. Im sure someone would like this book, but its far too cutesy for me.