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I read this mainly because I love Bentley "Hell-Bent" Rudtledge who appears in several Liz Carlyle books before he gets his own story.
A Woman of Virtue is not Carlyle's most well-paced romance. The hero and heroine treat each other horribly (especially her toward him) and it takes far too long to get past the hate in their relationship. I thought Carlyle made Cecilia almost unlikeable by her behavior and treatment of David at the start.
As much as I liked both characters (I warmed to Cecilia eventually), the pacing of the book, the overly long story and not very interesting mystery just didn't work. The best part of the book is the other characters. Catching up with Jonet and Cole, if you read their book A Woman Scorned, keeping track of Bentley whose book The Devil You Know is terrific, and then getting to know Max de Rohan who stars in the next book, No True Gentleman.
I've been reading her books out of order, finding myself intrigued by characters who obviously have an interesting story of their own. I like the way that while each book totally stands on its own, Carlyle seems to have connected her first three books, which are utterly disparate, with characters who meld and weave in and out of many many future books.
A Woman of Virtue is not Carlyle's most well-paced romance. The hero and heroine treat each other horribly (especially her toward him) and it takes far too long to get past the hate in their relationship. I thought Carlyle made Cecilia almost unlikeable by her behavior and treatment of David at the start.
As much as I liked both characters (I warmed to Cecilia eventually), the pacing of the book, the overly long story and not very interesting mystery just didn't work. The best part of the book is the other characters. Catching up with Jonet and Cole, if you read their book A Woman Scorned, keeping track of Bentley whose book The Devil You Know is terrific, and then getting to know Max de Rohan who stars in the next book, No True Gentleman.
I've been reading her books out of order, finding myself intrigued by characters who obviously have an interesting story of their own. I like the way that while each book totally stands on its own, Carlyle seems to have connected her first three books, which are utterly disparate, with characters who meld and weave in and out of many many future books.
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