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Paradise #3

by Nicole Jordan

Londra, 1815. Antonia non ha mai dimenticato quel bacio richiesto in maniera un po' sfrontata a sedici anni a Trey Deverill, amico di suo padre, e, benché ora sia ormai fidanzata e prossima alle nozze con l'inquietante lord Heward, pensa a Trey fin troppo spesso. Dopo la morte del genitore, quando a un ballo se lo ritrova davanti, la ragazza sa di non poter più mentire a se stessa: vuole quell'uomo più di quanto abbia mai voluto Heward. Trey, dal canto suo, è sconvolto dal cambiamento di Antonia: l'adolescente timida è sbocciata in una donna splendida e seducente. Ma Trey è in una situazione delicata: avvertito per lettera di alcuni sospetti su un possibile avvelenamento del padre di lei, è rientrato a Londra proprio per scoprire la verità…

Genres: Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Regency Romance

432 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

New York Times bestselling author Nicole Jordan spins delightful tales that simmer with passion and sensuality. In her former life, Nicole grew up as an Army brat, moving frequently and attending high school in Germany. She later earned a civil engineering degree from Georgia Tech and spent eight years as a manufacturing manager making disposable diapers and toilet tissue! Currently Nicole lives in the Rocky Mountains of Utah with her real-life hero (her husband) and beloved kids (her horses).

With over two-dozen historical romances to her credit and four million books in print, set in numerous eras and locales, Nicole now enjoys chronicling the sparks that fly when Regency lovers play the matrimonial mating game.

One of her novels had the dubious honor of being humorously spotlighted by Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show." On a more serious note, Nicole's romances regularly appear on numerous bestseller lists, including The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today, and have earned such honors as RITA finalist, RWA's Favorite Book of the Year, the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Historical Romance, and the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence, presented by a group of over one hundred romance reviewers.

Reviews

[Mariana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Algo que adoro em romance de época, é que mesmo que um livro pertença a uma saga, é possível ler como standalone. Por norma as autoras dão a contextualização perfeita do passado da saga e deixam um gostinho para quem quiser, depois ir ler...
Este livro é o terceiro da saga Paraíso mas é o primeiro que leio da autora 🤭 a minha estreia com ela e até que me convenceu...

É uma história que vale por si, é única e não está presa a outras da saga ou até a convenções. Um romance que parte das fantasias secretas de ambos os protagonistas, pois estes escondem um do outro aquilo que facto nutrem um pelo outro.

É a fantasia de ambos tornada realidade e é também uma aventura de proporções épicas! Intriga e um crime inesperado criam o setting para esta aventura que é, em parte náutica.
A química dos protagonistas é incrível e inegável 🔥 juntar a isso a mente genial de ambos e a tendência para aventuras - temos um casamento perfeito.

[Amarilli 73 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Arrivata al terzo volume di questa serie, mi sono ormai abituata allo stile di Nicole Jordan, soprattutto ai suoi maschi tutti d'un pezzo e alle sue eroine intrepide e anticonvenzionali.

Aggiungo pure che la Jordan ha un certo debole per sorprendere i suoi protagonisti maschili in costume adamitico: se nel precedente volume, Thorne emergeva dalle acque di fronte a Cirene, qui Trey viene sorpreso gloriosamente nudo, fresco di bagno e luccicante di vapore, dalla sedicenne Antonia che gironzola per caso.
In effetti, mi è subito piaciuta Antonia: anziché cacciare un urlo sdegnato o fingere svenimenti da educanda, la nostra coglie l'occasione per approfondire conoscere naturalistico-anatomiche, ben sapendo che non lo potrà mai fare nel collegio per signorine in cui trascorre il resto dell'anno e convincendosi che... beh, insomma... una deve pur vedere come è fatto il mondo...
Nata da un padre ricco commerciante e da una nobile emarginata per aver sposato un uomo che vive di "sporco lavoro", Antonia vuole riscattarsi sposando un marito titolato ed essere accettata in società. Purtroppo, la sua qualifica di ereditiera (orfana) la espone alla solita serie di problemi.
Se vogliamo, la trama è trita e ritrita: Trey, già amico di famiglia, intende proteggerla da nemici ed arrampicatori. Però in questo romanzo l'autrice ci butta dentro un po' di tutto, con abbondanza e senza mai annoiare: omicidi, viaggi per mare, l'Ordine dei Custodi che si attiva per venire in aiuto, e una generosa profusione di sesso (molto educato, con un lui gentiluomo e attento ai piaceri della partner, eh!). Si legge senza fatica.

Di questa serie apprezzo soprattutto il carattere autonomo dei vari volumi: ogni serie si apre e si chiude da sé, quindi non devi aver letto i precedenti per goderti la storia. Sono romanzoni corposi, forse non introvabili nel senso più stretto del termine, ma ideali per passare qualche bel pomeriggio o serata, svagandosi e immergendosi in un'altra epoca.

Pertanto preannuncio già che proseguirò la lettura.

[Blodeuedd Finland · Rating 1 out of 5]

This one was dull. Then why did I finish it? Well honestly I was too lazy and preggo to get another book. Too far away! I was all, whatever I can just finish it. And I did skim quite a lot in the second half. They were doing it all the time anyway and not a lot happened.

That was a problem. After 150 pages or so not a lot happened. It was more them smexing and considering he wanted to protect her from a murderer I had expected a bit more suspense. It was just them, and even if other people were around none stood out. Side characters really should stand out a bit too, that is how you think ohhh I want to read his book! Her book!

So all in all, a disappointment.

[Ana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Acho que não estava mesmo na vibe para ler este livro. Achei “mais do mesmo”.

[Natasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story has an unusual plot which i find refreshing from the normal monotone plots circulating around today.
Antonia, daughter of a common shipping merchant, is determine to marry a nobleman to fulfill her dead father's wishes. Trey Deverill, a common man is determined to protect and safeguard her after he learns her life is in danger and the danger is coming from the noble lord who Antonia is betrothed to. She is stubborn and fiery and the only way to protect her from her betrothed after she doesn't believe he is responsible for her father's death is for Deverill to kidnap her and take her away from London.

Antonia is a bold no nonsense woman. And it isn't everyday you see a heroine approaches the hero for lessons in pleasure and seduction which is precisely what antonia does after deverill abducts and takes her to the cornish coast. I really love that she took charge of her own pleasure, demands it actually, from deverill.

The sex is off the hook between them. The chemistry, spark, flare and explosion between them I so look forward to. The bold way that the author writes this historical is to be commended. I will definitely be reading her work in the future.

[Rainelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

To the lovers of romance novels, this is the book for you. Trey Deverills and Antonia’s love match certainly takes you on a romantic adventure. Their adventures are filled with murder, suspense, action and a lot of backstabbing. It is hard for me to say who was my favorite character, for they all played a good part. My only thought is to why Antonia held a gun on Deveril, telling him not to touch her, if she wanted him to ravish her.
Maybe that was a fill in, who knows. Good book people. I will be reading more from this author.

[CheerfullRain · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a book that involved murder, conspiracy and kidnapping, it was awfully slow. Decent enough story, it just got repetitive after a while.

[Roberta · Rating 3 out of 5]

This should have been better than a 3 star book. The plot was reasonable, the supporting characters are great, the villain was really nasty, the hero is really swashbuckling, and there were numerous hot scenes.

The hot scenes may have been just a little too numerous. Antonia said several times that she and Trey Deverill had a lot in common but it was beginning to seem like there was really only one thing.

I also found it annoying that Antonia insists, loudly, over and over again that, in spite of being a female, she has a brain and can think and make decisions for herself. She then proceeds to demonstrate over and over again that she doesn't really make good decisions at all.

[Aneca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Same old characters, fast read but nothing special

[Lori · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just an ok romance. Nothing special or different.

[Noelia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Uno de los libros de Nicole Jordan que más me gustan. Tiene acción, aventura y el "toque Jordan", no aburre y los disfruté mucho.

[Isabel Luna · Rating 4 out of 5]

La historia no introduce ningún elemento nuevo dentro del universo de novelas históricas; plantea una trama sencilla, con un pikito de suspense pero me gustó mucho más que los dos libros anteriores.
Deverill no se diferencia de los otros guardianes; en esto es básicamente idéntico a Max y Thorne; noble, valiente, aventurero, con fobia al matrimonio. Algo q sí rescato como positivo es q los guardianes son protagonistas que, aunq han tenido lo suyo en cuanto a actividades extracurriculares, no plantean sus facetas de libertinaje como algo q marque sus personalidades (incluso Thorne tiene esta característica algo así como camuflada).
Ahora, lo q de verdad me ha gustado ha sido la personalidad de Antonia al punto q, desde mi punto de vista ha superado incluso a Caro, q se salía del molde pero resultando igualmente un poco miedosa con el tema de "sufrir". Antonia no, ella sabe q en su futuro no va encontrar nada de felicidad así q no está por la labor de desperdiciar nada, y para cuando se le pasa el enojo por el rapto, va a por lo q quiere. Sus objeciones no fueron del tipo trágico "ay el no me ama, voy a sufrir", sino más bien x el lado de la promesa q le hizo al padre; pero una vez superado el trauma, pues ella no va parar hasta conseguir q Dev la quiera y sanseacabó.
Y aunq la serie no se me hace q va ser muy memorable para mi, este libro tiene mucha chance de ser releído.

[Manuela Lima · Rating 4 out of 5]

Aventura romântica épica - Fantasia Absoluta é o terceiro livro da séria “Paraíso” e que foge um pouco ás tradicionais sagas ou até convenções, já que nos transmite as fantasias secretas de ambos os protagonistas, já que ambos escondem os sentimentos que nutrem um pelo outro. Esta é uma história ímpar e uma aventura de proporções épicas 😉
Nesta leitura ficou difícil destacar o protagonista favorito, pois todos de evidenciaram de forma positiva nesta aventura recheada de suspense, ação e muita traição. Se bem que Trey mostra uma sensualidade carismática que nos fascina de imediato.
Antónia é uma herdeira, cujo único sonho do pai é que ela se case com um nobre. Algo que Trey rejeitou no seu nascimento nobre, para se dedicar a uma vida de aventura.
Esta é uma leitura muito agradável e uma bela fuga da vida rotineira! Aguardo ansiosamente pelo lançamento do quarto livro “Fever Dreams”, que certamente nos levará numa perfeita e tentadora jornada no jogo do amor entre Lady Eve & Alex. 😉

[Lucie Et Toi Tu Lis Quoi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Effectivement, il y avait une héroïne capricieuse et de l’érotisme 😂
Ce n’est pas une lecture que je vais retenir. Je me suis ennuyée pendant les 2/3 du livre, j’ai trouvé Antonia, l’héroïne, agaçante. Sous prétexte d’avoir un personne féminin un peu révoltée contre la société d’hommes de l’époque on a une harpie un peu prétentieuse et capricieuse.
En revanche, Trey Deverill est vraiment le héros au passé douloureux, le pirate séduisant et séducteur, et il est obligé de subir Antonia et ses lubies.
Mon sentiment tout du long a été que l’histoire était l‘écrin ou le prétexte pour écrire des scènes érotiques parce qu’on passe de la vierge effarouchée à la maîtresse bdsm qui attache notre pirate au lit avec des rubans dans le cadre d‘un jeu de rôle. C’est tellement gros qu’on lève les yeux au ciel. En revanche le dernier tiers du livre nous fait vivre quelques rebondissements. La plume de l’auteure n’a rien de remarquable. La narration est lourde et répétitive. C’est dommage.

[Joana · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,75⭐

O início foi um bocadinho difícil e agora acredito que se deveu ao facto de já não ler este género há muito tempo. Tive de me habituar novamente à escrita, sobretudo, mas também ao tamanho das letras (que é medonho 😅).

Desde o início que senti que o enredo tinha potencial e gostei muito da química entre os protagonistas. As cenas spicy sem dúvida que me fizeram voltar a apaixonar por este subgénero - o spice em romances de época é simplesmente diferente 🙈

Gostei do romance, mas faltou-me algo que não sei explicar e que me impediu de conectar mais com estes personagens. Apesar de tudo, o tipo de enredo e de personagens é mesmo daqueles que eu gosto, com proximidade forçada e high stakes. 

Foi bom, e também achei melhor do que os outros da série, mas não amei e tenho mesmo pena disso 🥲

[Emanuellen Trizi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Soooo, this book annoyed me so much! Its a nice story, BUT THE VERY SAME OF MY FAIR LOVER! Or, I must say, My Fair Lover has the same story because it was published after this one. I amsolely disappointed in Nicole Jordan after this. The similarities are huge. Antonia and Kate have alburn hair, they both have a past with the hero, they are trapped away from London in an idillical place, they even share a identical scene about a knee! (Trying not to spolier). Ok, Trey and Brandon are cousins, but it seems to me that Nicole just pick up some things of this story and of Fever Dreams and put it in My Fair LoverMy Fair Lover. WORST, the books are related in this series! That said, I must admit the plot twist that got me biting my nails. It was good and the end was awesome. Unfortunatelly, I have fall out of love with Nicole Jordan. So much things are annoying me on her books (I think its a common ocurrence when you read a lot of books by the same author in sequence). I think sometimes her writing lazy, just a bunch of words to lead to a lot of sex scenes. Dont get me wrong, I love this part, but in NJ they are a bit excessive. The plots are good, but I dont know, they become lost in the middle. In the end, they always give me a feeling that was much ado about nothing.

[Lindsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I very much prefer when my romance novels have solid impediments to relationships--like murderous fortune-hunters-- and strong-willed women; this book checked both boxes. I could've done without some of the fluff after the denouement, but overall a very pleasant read.

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really do love this paradise series

[DemetraP · Rating 1 out of 5]

The back of the book says an adventurer/pirate kidnaps the heroine. The first 150 pages of the book is the hero trying to convince the heroine that her fiance is a bad guy who is involved in the slave trade and an all around bad guy.

So I kept reading along hoping to get to the romance between the hero and heroine and there isn't much. A kiss here or there and she thinks he's doing it to get back at her fiance.

Heroine spends all of her time complaining about "society" and how she can't be a shipbuilder like her father or an adventurer like the hero. Ok, I understand the time period but don't be a whiner. Do something about it.

Heroine demands proof of her fiance's guilt and hero decides to kidnap her to keep her safe.

At this point, I just gave up on the book. This book had potential but it was too bland and boring. This book was a did-not-finish book for me.

[Marcia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the third book in this historical romance series, but I got mixed up and read it first. It still works as a stand alone. Antonia is an heiress, whose father's one dream is for her to marry a nobleman. Trey rejected his noble birth for a life of adventure. They met when she was just 17, when she stumbled upon him in her father's bath and she has never forgotten him. Four years later, after the death of her father, he is sent for by their housekeeper, who believes that her father was murdered by Antonia's fiance, Baron Heward. Unbeknown to Antonia, Trey is a member of the Guardians, sworn to protect the weak, vulnerable and the deserving. To protect her, he must sweep her a way to his island home until the Guardians can get the proof they need against Heward, where TRey and Antonia get swept up with each other.

[Cam · Rating 1 out of 5]

I couldn't even finish it. The writing wasn't bad but the plot was completely predictable. After having read Brenda Joyce's The Prize I couldn't help the comparisons, granted the only thing the two had in common was the abduction theme, Joyce's had better written characters (or should I say more endearing?) and a complex story of revenge interwoven with the romance.

I'm a little disappointed since I wanted to love this simply because one of my first romance novels was The Seduction by Nicole Jordan and perhaps having read many historical romances and basically having expanded my horizons since then her writing just didn't capture me and the love scenes weren't as steamy.

[Maria Espadinha · Rating 4 out of 5]

A&T


Antonia set eyes on Trey and the world was no longer there. The charismatic sensuality of the adventurer was simply jaw dropping, leaving the clumsy long legged teen totally in awe with him...

Four years passed till they meet again. Antonia's father recently died and the family housekeeper contacted Trey to investigate the causes of his strange unexpected death. Trey used to be a very close friend of Antonia's father and was definitely determined to find the true behind the misterious death...

And the story goes dydady dydady lalala...

P.S.: For my Portuguese reading mates there's an edition entitled Fantasia Absoluta published by Marcador

[Lowry · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute story with some definite hot scenes. If anybody can recommend some really GOOD romance with highly developed characters and still some steamy scenes, though, I feel like I've read through most of what's good and am now just feeding on what's decent.

[Rinou · Rating 2 out of 5]

Une héroïne qu fait tout le contraire de ce qu'on lui dit, un héros qui veut expier à vie une "faute" qu'il n'a pas commise et n'avait aucun moyen d'empêcher, et un rythme lent pour une histoire qui porte mal son titre.

[Danette · Rating 4 out of 5]

These books by Jordan really suck you in.

[Dancer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I admit to being a Niclole Jordan fan. I will read her books regularly. This was another thrilling look at The Guardians and how they "segway" into British society.

[Jenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love Love loved it.

[Marielle Authier · Rating 3 out of 5]

**½

[Jasey · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 1/2 stars
Trey Deverill and Antonia Maitland. He is a member of the Guardians who protect those who need it. She is a very sought after heiress.

[Ulya A.K]

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