Connie Mason, WTH?! I really like this author, but this book was like the biggest eye roll ever! Somehow, I couldn't stop reading it though. You know, like when you're addicted to trashy celebrity gossip. SPOILER below...sort of...The hero is so thick and stubborn. He spends the whole book whining about avenging the death of his fiance. He didn't even love the chick, yet he swears off marriage and children forever. Then, he spews these awful stereotypes about Gypsies. He accuses the heroine of being a whore because she's a half-breed (half English, half Gypsy)...and then like 5 minutes later, he's ready to rip apart some fops who imply that the heroine is a whore. Dude, you can't have it both ways.Then, he's overbearing...insisting for like 40 pages that the heroine marry him. This happens of course after he finds out that she's not some common "Gypsy wench." She's actually an earl's daughter. Sigh. So, she was only worthy of your peen as a Gypsy? Hmmm. The heroine is half Gypsy, so she's more fiery than milksop English girls...or at least that's what the author tries to make you believe. This heroine spends a good 80 percent of the book begging the hero to love her. All they do is have sex and I'm like, really, you're in love? She keeps telling the hero that she'll marry him when he loves her. He is afraid of love and retorts that "he cares for her deeply". He also talks about all the good sex they have...and boy do they have a lot of it. For all the heroine's stubborness about marriage, every time the hero practically looked at her, her legs fell open. (eye roll)Well, there's danger and attempts on lives...and finally evil is vanquished... that's not a spoiler. The hero is ready to express his love, because he realizes that after all this time he does love her. OK, well she's not wanting to listen. She runs away. (blank stare) In the snow. While pregnant. I'll stop there. Oh and lastly, there were LOTS of errors in this book. Since when is "tume will tell" a platitude? It's spelled t-i-m-e. Oh and the rats were eating in the "corner" not "comer".
This book follows A Taste of Sin. Lord Julian the Earl of Mansfield is a secret agent for the crown and undercover trying to find out who the head of a smuggling ring is and has been working on case for long time. He knows the guy has to be someone important and privy to secret info and suspects him of murdering in pregnant fiancee. He gets caught and wounded and a gypsy (1/2 cause she's actually a Lady)rescues him and then marries him under gypsy law. But he has to go back and leaves her. She goes home to dad and he takes her to London for her comming out and they meet up again. His relationship with her causes the bad guy to go after her and he has to come to the rescue. I liked this book.
Do You like book A Breath Of Scandal (2001)?
A Breath of Scandal is author Connie Mason’s second novel of the Sin Trilogy. In this novel we have Lord Julian Thornton, Earl of Mansfield and a half gypsy and daughter of the Earl of Stanhope, Lady Lara.Julian is only an earl half the time, the other half he is a secret government agent determined to find vengeance for his dead wife who was killed by a man dubbed the Jackal that he has been hunting for years, and he will not rest until he finds him.Close to finding the Jackal now then his cove
—Holly
