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Erotic historical fiction full of contemporary language and steamy love scenes.
This book is about a married couple but it won't give much away to say that while they've been married for four years, it was a marriage of convenience and never consummated. So the story takes up when they finally reunite and Gerard wants to make their marriage real. There's also a subplot with Isabelle's brother falling in love with a young virgin. You get the story about the jaded, experienced couple and also a story with a virgin bride and a rake.
The book was definitely sexy with some pretty steamy love scenes. The love story was kind of weak. Their love seemed to be based almost solely on the incredible sexual attraction between them and not much else. They never really talk about anything but sex or their attraction, don't learn about each other and their personalities or foibles, its just a lot of sex in period costumes. It's worked but wasn't one of those enduring love stories. But good enough to certainly read more, historical and contemporary, from this author.
Haven't read this author before and I wasn't in a big hurry. While this book languished on my TBR pile for a while, I read Fifty Shades of Grey series and Amazon then suggested a bunch of contemporary Sylvia Day books similar to FSoG. So if you like that kind of book, you get the idea of Day's writing style.
This book is about a married couple but it won't give much away to say that while they've been married for four years, it was a marriage of convenience and never consummated. So the story takes up when they finally reunite and Gerard wants to make their marriage real. There's also a subplot with Isabelle's brother falling in love with a young virgin. You get the story about the jaded, experienced couple and also a story with a virgin bride and a rake.
The book was definitely sexy with some pretty steamy love scenes. The love story was kind of weak. Their love seemed to be based almost solely on the incredible sexual attraction between them and not much else. They never really talk about anything but sex or their attraction, don't learn about each other and their personalities or foibles, its just a lot of sex in period costumes. It's worked but wasn't one of those enduring love stories. But good enough to certainly read more, historical and contemporary, from this author.
Haven't read this author before and I wasn't in a big hurry. While this book languished on my TBR pile for a while, I read Fifty Shades of Grey series and Amazon then suggested a bunch of contemporary Sylvia Day books similar to FSoG. So if you like that kind of book, you get the idea of Day's writing style.
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