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Everything I Ever Wanted (Compass Club #2)
by
Jo Goodman
The toast of Drury Lane, actress India Parr has claimed the attention of London's most impressive gentlemen -- including the Prince Regent himself -- with her talent and poise. Though her heart hasn't been won, she is intrigued by the devilishly handsome Earl of Southerton -- yet equally determined to keep him from the dark, deadly secret that shadows her private life.
Paperback, 448 pages
Published
March 1st 2003
by Zebra
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Jo Goodman has written a fine tuned novel but gets bogged down by the angst of the heroine and the dark storyline. There are so many secrets and hidden agendas going on, that the reader truly doesn't understand everything till the last chapter. Goodman writes elegantly but the story is so dark that there doesn't look to be a happy ending for our two main characters. Even then, their relationship is still questionable.
India, the heroine, is an actress on the London stage and the latest toast of...more
India, the heroine, is an actress on the London stage and the latest toast of...more
Everything I Ever Wanted is the second book in Jo Goodman's Compass Club quartet. It features The Earl of Southerton, Matthew Forester as he investigates the actress India Parr and her ties to several men who have recently been murdered. South must determine if she had anything to do with these murders. The more he gets to know India, the more he realizes mystery surrounds her and that she is in great danger. India refuses his help and therefore South takes matters into his own hands by kidnappi...more
I loved this book - 5 stars - in print, but the unabridged audio version with narrator Jenny Sterlin is DREADFUL and I DNFed less than 2 hours in after learning from others that heroine India Parr's voice continues to sound as though she might expire from consumption or ennui before the book is over. The first book in the series is read by the very good, very-proper-British-speaking Virginia Leishman, and it's a joy, but stay away from the overly-bored, annoyingly-snide voice of Sterlin because...more
This is book 2 in the series but I read them out of order and this was the last one I got to and actually the one i enjoyed most.
The Earl of Southerton aka South is on a mission to investigate and potentially protect India Parr the current toast of Drury Lane.
I am not normally keen on romances with class difference or actresses etc but I really liked this.
As per usual with Jo Goodman, the heroine is suffering under an initially undisclosed menace.
South finds that she is not remotely what he...more
The Earl of Southerton aka South is on a mission to investigate and potentially protect India Parr the current toast of Drury Lane.
I am not normally keen on romances with class difference or actresses etc but I really liked this.
As per usual with Jo Goodman, the heroine is suffering under an initially undisclosed menace.
South finds that she is not remotely what he...more
Everything I Ever Wanted, Jo Goodman - This is the second in the Compass Club series, and features a standby Goodman theme of the abused heroine in need of rescue. India Parr, the heroine/actress, is menaced by a truly creepy figure, and she does know she's in danger. She feels strongly however that she can manage her situation and so she refuses help from the hero of the novel, who is, unbeknownst to her, an agent of the state set up spying on her to flush out a killer. The murders of India's "...more
Jun 08, 2013
Kereesa
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2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Diehards of the series
Recommended to Kereesa by:
Grandma
There are a lot of things I don't like. Gravy, Breaking Bad, the current Pemberly Digital mini-series, Sanditon. And there are a number if things I also don't like in books.
Like insta-romance, stupid heroines, and pathetically simple plots that revolve around the conundrum of getting a regency heroine into the regency roguish here's bed,
I get that the regency era was a bit more free than its Victorian successor, but the novels in Goodman's Compass Club series are just too much. Granted it is rom...more
Like insta-romance, stupid heroines, and pathetically simple plots that revolve around the conundrum of getting a regency heroine into the regency roguish here's bed,
I get that the regency era was a bit more free than its Victorian successor, but the novels in Goodman's Compass Club series are just too much. Granted it is rom...more
AHHHH! I love South! He is just so....wow! the way he cares and loves Diana is so cute. This book was however different from the first book, it was good and cute in its own way. There were alot more erotic scenes in this book than the one before. I really enjoyed it.
This was only my second romance novel, so still not sure how it fits into the genre as a whole. The beginning was a little hard to get into, but once I was in, I was hooked. The mystery aspect of the plot was a pleasant surprise.
I really loved this one. I've read the first three of The Compass Club this is my favorite so far. Going to start book four soon can't wait. This is one of the best Regency series I've read.
I liked this one quite a bit better than the previous book. (And I liked the villain's secret identity - I certainly never saw it coming!)
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I had a hard time with the heroine in this book. I never felt like I really understood where she was coming from. Still, it was good to read on a really, really raining day.
Not as good as the first one but enjoyable.
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To find characters to illustrate my first family saga, I cut out models from the Sears catalogue. I was in fourth grade, but it was a start. In seventh grade I wrote a melodrama about two orphan sisters, one of whom was pregnant. There was also a story about a runaway girl with the unlikely name of Strawberry and one about mistaken identities and an evil blind date. My supportive, but vaguely conc...more
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