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Title: My Lady Notorious
ISBN: 0451206444
Author:
Jo Beverley
Publicate Date: 2002-07-01
Publish: 2002-07-01
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Enduringly sweet and hot
This is the first book that I read from Jo Beverley and I am so glad that I started out with this one! It has everything that you could possibly want out of a romance; searing sex, longing, true love, adventure, intrigue and honest-to-goodness wonderful characters with lots of depth. The story flowed incredibly well and I was truly sad to see the book end. Thank goodness this is a series and the characters you've learned to love reappear often. If you have to read a first from Jo Beverley, try this. You won't be disappointed!
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2: 4.5 stars
My Lady Notorious is one of the books in the Mallorens series I'd missed.
The story has the oft-used convention of the heroine disguising herself as a boy, but for a change, the hero doesn't buy it. And he's not angry with her about it. He's mostly curious.
She and her widowed sister and infant nephew are on the run from their father, who's inexplicably demanding that the heroine marry her loathsome brother-in-law's equally loathsome brother and is prepared to go to any lengths to accomplish the fact, including beating and socially ruining her.
It's a wonderful, exciting, and surprising story from a master of historical romance.
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3: I love Jo Beverley series
Having read the Rogue (Regency) series, I have just settled into reading the Malloren series, written about Georgian England. I am thrilled so far. The reviews here have suggested it was hard to believe the charade could go so long with Lady Chastity acting as a young man, but that is the fun of this type of writing. One has o suspend disbelief a bit and get into the characters. I had no trouble doing so with this book. I can't wait to read the next book in the series. I do wish the Earl of Wargrave, Chastity's father, were not so cruel as it was a bit hard to swallow but I love the Marquess of Rothgar. (He reminds me of the Duke of Bewcastle in the Mary Balogh "Slightly" series.) This is going to be a fun series! Thank you, Jo Beverley. You are the best. I am so glad you are working on one more book for this series.
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4: A page-turner!
Usually I prefer a certain character more so than the other but in this story I loved both hero & heroine equally!
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5: Shockingly Fantastic
This first book in the Malloren series was at times shocking and always fantastically good. Cyn Malloren is returning to his home and family after a short recuperation from war wounds. His overprotective brother has always opposed his military career and now Cyn wishes for a new adventure instead of a boring forced convalescence at home. He gets what he wishes for when he is kidnapped by a mysterious duo who turn out to be sisters Verity and Chastity Ware. Chastity is in disguise as a man but does not fool Cyn for a minute and he is at once intrigued and attracted to the mysterious "Charles". Charles is trying to help her widowed sister who is fleeing their mad father and her dangerous brother in law who want guardenship of her infant son. Verity hopes to marry her childhood sweetheart and hopes they can make it to him before their father or her brother in law catches them. Charles, the "Notorious Lady Chastity" is known as the social darling who was found with a man in her bed but refused to marry him. Chastity was set up by her father and Henry when she refused to marry him and after failing to fall in with their plans, her father beats her and shaves her head. Chastity then decides to help her sister run away and they kidnap Cyn to take his carriage but he soon convinces them that he wants an adventure and is all too willing to help them thwart their father. He allows Chastity to believe she is fooling him with her male disguise but he plans to have her in his bed and in his life as his wife, no matter how many odds are against them. When they finally give into their feelings, events transpire that reveal an evil plot in which her father is a major player...if they cannot uncover proof all may be lost....
This was so very good I never wanted to put it down. Although it is fiction the awful things that a father will do to further his own gain sickens me and knowing that back then females had no right but to do whatever their male relatives command was heartbreaking.....Verity and Chastity are both abused and used for their father's gain and even their brother is reluctant to help them. As far as the Malloren's, what a wonderful fictional family. I absolutely cannot wait to read each one's own story. These books are passionate, humorous, sprinkled with historical intrigue and just plain fun.
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