I was surprisingly bored by this novel about a well-to-do woman captured on the way to meet her fiancé, a mucky-muck in the East India Company. She is sold into a harem in Morocco, or rescued by the harem's owner, an English-educated man, depending on you point of view.Said fiancé is a lord, and can't leave his post, so he enlists his never-do-well brother, a well-known adventurer, explorer, rake.Of course our heroine is learning about pleasure while trying to avoid her capturer/rescuer's bed. Then the brother comes to the scene. Seems he is her long lost love — she gave up her virginity to him — another reason to avoid the rescuer's bed — and waited for him.He believes she didn't wait, but will save her anyway. Of course they are still hot for each other, and guilt over the brother, fiancé plays a part in their tortured tale. But still ... I LOVE Teresa Medeiros' earlier works. But lately, she's gone the way of a lot of my favorite historical romance authors ... what happened? I call it the cookie-cutter syndrome. Maybe the pressure to keep producing book after book after book for her publisher is just sapping her strength. I don't know. I hate to give one star, because of my sentimental attachment to many of her previous titles, but I want to be honest. The last couple of releases just haven't worked for me.Maybe the next book will be better!
Do You like book The Pleasure Of Your Kiss (2011)?
It was good but, the ending left something to be wanted.
—tk464papd
