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Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me
Lady Whistledown Strikes Back The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me
Author: Julia Quinn, Suzanne Enoch, Karen Hawkins, Mia Ryan
ISBN-13: 9780739442623
ISBN-10: 0739442627
Publication Date: 2004
Rating:
  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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4.4 stars, based on 8 ratings
Publisher: Avon Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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pinkscoobyjp avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 67 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is a very good anthology. I had never read any books by any of these authors, so i wanted to read the anthology before i invested money into books by authors i may not like. I really enjoyed all of the stories equally with Julia Quinns and Karen Hawkins stories as the top two. The stories are better when read in the order they come, for they all sort of tie in to each other. All in all, a good, fast read!

*If you are looking for hot steamy love scenes, KH's is the steamiest, with JQ at 2nd, followed by SE and MR, but for the most part, the book is pure romance with little to no love scenes.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 620 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I enjoyed this anthology of 4 stories tied together with a mysterious theft and the observations of the equally mysterious Lady Whistledown.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 46 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Anthologies are usually blah to me, this one had 3 of my favorite authors and then one that I plan on checking into! I loved all 4 stories. Highly recommend!
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 41 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Loved the first story best. Julia Quinn's sense of humor and wit is outstanding. I enjoyed the others as well but there was just too much sexual description for me in a couple of the other short story parts.
sdgirl avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 160 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Loved Lady Whistledown's little quips from the Bridgerton series, this is a fun quick read.
slizcole avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on
Helpful Score: 1
Lovely book! Enjoyed every minute! Good content and kept the action going and very creative in the way they meshed their storylines! I have read all three of these books and wish there was another! Someone tell the authors!! Sallie C.
HugYourNP avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 4 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This was a nice quick read with lot of laughs. The stories were both witty & clever.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 27 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I would reread this book without hesitation.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 28 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Lady Whistledown was a character I always enjoyed in her Bridgerton series, so of course I had to pick this up. I really liked this anthology because it had a running theme throughout the book with all the stories intersecting and connecting to each other.
redhatter avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 577 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great book, really enjoyed it.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 18 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Enjoyable, humerous short stories by various authors with shared characters and story. Extraneous sex scene tacked on to the end of each story.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 84 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I loved the fact that the 4 stories were so intertwined. The fact that the characters keep bumping into each other and seeing the same scene from two or even three characters viewpoints. Very interesting! I think Mia Ryan's story was the weakest of the four. Suzanne Enoch's story was my favorite. I just loved her heroine, Charlotte, and thought the ending (while not as dramatic as some) was realistic and sweet. Karen Hawkins' story was the second best, followed by Julia Quinn's. Good stories by all authors and you can tell that they had fun writing the overlapping parts.
marebear143 avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 75 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Very good if you want to hear further from Lady Whistledown, four authors writing about four different romances taking place at the same time, very good!
TwoLittleMonkeys avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 103 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Another wonderful collection of stories
Janjunebug avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 191 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Wonderful collection of stories by these great authors; Quinn, Enoch, Hawkins & Ryan.
robinmy avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 2106 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Four humorous stories told with the help of Lady Whistledown's column. Mia Ryan's story was the weakest but I loved the other three.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 54 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I love Julia Quinn's books--her characters are so real to me and I love to get different stories about characters that I have read about in her other books. I could tell that the other writers really had read the books and knew the characters as well. Reading this book was like visiting with old friends and getting to meet new ones too.
4amreader avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 157 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
The middle two stories were great. The first, by Quinn, enjoyable but I had trouble with the last one. Maybe because so much seemed repeated from the first three, I'm not sure. It wasn't bad by any means it just did not hold my interest like the others did.

I'll happily read the middle two again sometime.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Four short stories by different authors but surrounding the same characters in the same social scene. Very fun reading
justreadingabook avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 1726 more book reviews
Loved it. So much fun packed into one excellent book. You won't be disappointed. A really good must read!
beccago avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 25 more book reviews
4 short interconnected love stories by 4 different authors. A quick read.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 3 more book reviews
a roving viscount comes home to rekindle the passionate fires of his marriage....only to discover that his beautiful headstrong bride will not be so easily won.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 9 more book reviews
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justbren avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 17 more book reviews
This books is done by four authors and it really a good book.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 29 more book reviews
Who stole Lady Neely's Bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant, or the rogue? All of London was abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime.
cherrybollie avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on
Really well written collection of stories that are all intertwined beautifully! You won't be disappointed by this book!
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 256 more book reviews
Who stole Lady Neeley's bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant or the rogue? four novellas in one book.
reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 380 more book reviews
Who stole Lady Neeley's Bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler the servant or the rougue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that oe of four couples is connected to the crime. Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, May 1816 Julia Quinn enchanges with: A dashing fortune hunter is captivated by the Season's most desired debutante and must prove he is out to steal the lady's heart, not her dowry. Suzanne Enoch tantalizes: An innocent miss who has spent her life scruptlously avoiding scandal is suddenly and secretly courted by London's most notorious rogue. Karen Hawkins seduces: A roving viscount comes home to rekindle the passionate fires of his marriage only to discover that his beautiful, headstrong bride will not be so easily won. Mia Ryan delishts: A lovely free spirited servant is dazzled by the romantic attentions of a charming earl.. sparking a scandalous affair that could ruin them both.
MirthaC avatar reviewed Lady Whistledown Strikes Back: The First Kiss / The Last Temptation / The Best of Both Worlds / The Only One for Me on + 12 more book reviews
Who Stole Lady Neeleys Bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant, or the rogue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime.


Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, May 1816

Julia Quinn enchants: A dashing fortune hunter is captivated by the Season's most desired debutante...and must prove he is out to steal the lady's heart, not her dowry.

Suzanne Enoch tantalizes: An innocent miss who has spent her life scrupulously avoiding scandal is suddenly -- and secretly -- courted by London's most notorious rogue.

Karen Hawkins seduces: A roving viscount comes home to rekindle the passionate fires of his marriage...only to discover that his beautiful, headstrong bride will not be so easily won.

Mia Ryan delights: A lovely, free-spirited servant is dazzled by the romantic attentions of a charming earl...sparking a scandalous affair that could ruin them both.

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