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Mar 28, 2009

Julie (jjmachshev) rated it:

Mary Balogh does it again! "Then Comes Seduction" is a perfect read if you like bad-boy-redeemed-by-good-girl stories. There's more to it than that, of course, but I figure if this is your type of book...that's enough to get you interested.

On his 25th birthday, Jasper makes his most infamous bet. He will seduce the virtuous society virgin of his buddies' choice. They select none other than Katherine, cousin to his brother-in-rakehellness, Constantine. All proceeds acco More...

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Mar 26, 2009

seton rated it:

IMO, this was Balogh's best book in 7 years.

Katherine came across as empty white space in the previous book and she really isnt much more interesting here but this book reminds me that Balogh gives good rake. She dont do them too often but when she does, they always seem to be pretty effective.

Now, is this book as good as the Balogh of the Signet regencies?

No.

Balogh's style is more steamline now and my emotions were not in the least engaged. How More...

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Nov 21, 2011

Kristy rated it:

I liked this one better than the first in this series. Although I did feel that Katherine's character changed. She seemed much younger and more exuberant in the first book, and this one she was much more mature, which could be because it was 3 years later, but it seemed like more than that. Sort of like her personality changed a little with her maturity.

I really liked Jasper, even though you never knew if he was being honest or putting on a show. He was good at being charming. I More...

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Apr 26, 2009

Aelel rated it:

To be honest, I picked this book up because I liked the dress on the cover, and I was looking for a little bit of light, mindless reading. I must say, however, that I enjoyed this book. At first I was rather suspicious, because the plot was starting to resemble something right out of Dangerous Liaisons (which no one has a right to steal), but it thankfully turned courses and was just a fun read about two people denying their feelings in a stuffy British society.

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Jun 07, 2010

Elaine rated it:

Although I am a long time Regency reader, I had never read a Mary Balogh book until I received First Comes Marriage as a Goodreads Giveaway. I enjoyed the book so much, I had to read the rest of the series.

Book two starts out with a thoroughly unlikeable hero. While foxed, Lord Montford makes a wager to seduce an innocent . . . specifically, the youngest Huxtable sister, Katherine. Although I could have forgiven him for making the wager while drunk, he planned to follow through ev More...

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Jul 14, 2010

Jessi rated it:

Summary: In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London's most notorious lover on his ability to seduce the virtuous Katherine Huxtable. For Katherine, Jasper's offer is irresistible: to make London's most dangerous rake fall in love with her. Then Jasper suddenly ups the ante by asking her to become his wife. -- JCPL Catalog

First Line: Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, was twenty-five years old.

This novel didn't have perfect f More...

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Jan 07, 2011

Melinda rated it:

I'm conflicted about this book. I wrote a longer review on my blog. Basically, narrator Anne Flosnik is finally starting to read at a normal pace (yay!) but also showed signs of being too involved. She embarrassed me during the wedding night consummation scene!! And not because it was that hot, mind you - it was because she got as involved as our heroine supposedly did! I don't mind hearing a hot love scene narrated well, but I do mind feeling like I'm eavesdropping on a private moment.

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Apr 03, 2009

Chelsea rated it:

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Sep 18, 2011

Marilyn rated it:

Then Comes Seduction is Katherine's story. The male protag, Jasper, is more than a titled rake, he's allowed himself to become morally dissolute, and in a drunken moment, egged on by drunken friends, concocts a wager that involves the innocent but curious Katherine. At the last second he turns back but - horrified at her level of participation - Katherine retreats to the country for three years. As does Jasper, who is shocked by his own behavior. They meet again in London three years later and a More...

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Aug 22, 2009

Erin rated it:

This is the second in a series of four historical romance novels centered on the Huxable siblings, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a perfect summer escapist novel.

Katherine's story begins just after the end of the first book and then skips ahead three years. At the start of this book, she's 20 years old and the focus of a drunken bet: Jasper Finley bets his buddies that he can seduce her within two weeks. It's a wager that comes back to bite them in the backsides three years More...

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Nov 29, 2011

Lori rated it:

2nd in the series, "Then Comes Seduction" is Katherine's story. Katherine is the youngest girl and a few years older than Stephen. She's the golden beauty in the family -- the dreamer and the romantic.

Jasper is the villain... or is he? In a drunken revelry on his 25th birthday, Jasper's friends make a wager that he, even with his rakehell reputation, cannot seduce (full intercourse) an innocent within a fortnight. They choose Katherine Huxtable as the innocent, partly becau More...

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Jul 06, 2010

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Apr 23, 2009

Ana T. rated it:

I was a bit worried about starting this one. The first book in the series wasn’t exactly a favourite and the characters I really want to read about are Margaret and Con. However, Balogh still is one of my favourite authors and I do like to read series in order so I picked it up.

Right in the first few chapters one scene annoyed me tremendously. Jasper is a rake, since he sets out to ruin a young, innocent girl, who never did anything to him, on a whim is enough to see that More...

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Apr 10, 2009

AzuresHeart rated it:

I enjoyed the evolution of the h/h relationship. I love how they both had to get to know each other on a deeper level for the marriage to become a real marriage. This one flowed a lot better than the first one.

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Apr 01, 2009

BJ Rose rated it:

This is really a 4.5* book, and would have been a 5* if there had been more to Katherine in the first 1/3 of the book.

At 25, Jasper is a good-for-nothing rakehell, with no apparent reason for his selfishness. We quickly discover that he does have a conscience, but silly Katherine is scared enough to run home to the country for 3 years. When she returns she should be older & wiser, but it takes a social disaster that could ruin her family before she thinks of anyone but herself. I kno More...

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Mar 02, 2011

Tracy rated it:

If I were not a long-time reader of Mary Balogh books, I would have tossed this one aside after the third chapter due to the shocking behavior by both hero and heroine at Vauxhall. However, I trusted Balogh to make it all right, and she did. I read the first in this series, but for the life of me cannot remember anything from that story. I think Balogh was strongest with her Signet Regencies back in the 1990s, and it's hard not to hold her to that standard, but even though she's not as good a More...

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Jun 30, 2010

Ruth rated it:

I love a predatory rake and the hero in this story fits the bill. He's cynical, unfeeling, arrogant and totally debauched. He's also totally irresistible. It's possible that he is somewhat modelled on Sir Percy Blakeney played by Trevor Howard in The Scarlet Pimpernel - outwardly uninterested in everything, with a scathing wit, but with a hidden soul and deep sense of responsibility, and underneath it all just a naughty boy, really. The story was nice enough for the first half, but really picked More...

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Jun 25, 2011

Quera rated it:

Al igual que la anterior me ha gustado,este es más divertido, no sólo he sonreído, si no que en varias ocasiones me he reído. Vamos que hasta que la he acabado no he parado y eso que al principio no me gustaba ninguno de los dos personajes, ella una mojigata sabelotodo de 20 años y él, no un libertino, si no un descastado.

Lo de la apuesta inicial me resultaba desagradable y después su "encuentro" en los jardines demasiado precipitado pero los años pasan y ellos maduran y deb More...

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Oct 17, 2009

E. rated it:

Katherine Huxtable's chapter in the ongoing saga of the Huxtable siblings. A reprehensible wager causes Jasper Finley to seduce Katherine while they are both at Vauxhall but inexplicably, he develops enough of a conscience that he does not completely fulfill the terms (which saves his life although he is unaware of that side effect). A subsequent meeting three years later reignites the mutual attraction between the unsuitable rake and the beautiful innocent who become embroiled in the delayed More...

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Sep 20, 2009

Romance rated it:

I'm usually not a big fan of Balogh's books as I find the plots a little slow, contrived and, yes, even emotionally manipulative. This book, however, is very different.

This book seems to be more an exploration of what love is--an uncontrolled feeling, a result of lust, a personal choice. I love how the characters talk openly about making the decision to be happy and then make a plan on how to achieve that happiness. You'd think these qualities would make the book lose some of its rom More...

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Jul 20, 2010

Joey rated it:

I thought this book was pretty good - clean cut romance, sappy yet funny at times and set in the lovely British Regency (or was is Georgian? or Victorian?).

Perhaps because I've not been reading historical romances like these for a long time, and I really miss the veiled retorts, the societal rules "the sticklers" conform to and all the titles. Somehow.

Of course, I don't think this series is as good as the Bedwyn family series but it is pretty good. And Katherine More...

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Dec 24, 2009

Mommalovesbaby rated it:

This book was a disappointment. I had previously liked books by this author (the Simply series), however, I have been unimpressed with the Huxtable Quintet series.
There is very little plot or intrigue. There isn't much drama between the couple. There isn't much suspense, tension, or even romance.
Both of these books in the series are a watered down plot of "First Comes Marriage, Then Comes Seductions. Both books have the theme in common that the couples are just trying to f More...

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Aug 04, 2009

Amelia rated it:

I'm a big fan of Mary Balogh, and I enjoyed this book but at times it felt forced. It begins with a very fast, erotic opening, and as a writer I wondered how she would possibly deal with that in the plot. It was quite a task, I think. The lead characters were fairly well realized, but seemed less natural than many characters because of the self-conscious distance between how they felt within themselves and how they presented themselves to the world. I did not read the first book in the series, More...

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May 02, 2009

Shannon rated it:

Balogh's 2nd book in the Huxtable series is about youngest sister Katherine. Much younger when she is introduced in First Comes Marriage she matures into a lovely and spirited woman who falls for rake Jasper. Their story is one of my favorites, this couple's relationship truly evolves from a humiliating first encounter into a love affair. I particularly like the decriptions of Jasper's manor home and the village and residents who surround them. One of Balogh's best romances with fully formed and More...

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Feb 23, 2011

Sababa rated it:

Now this is what I like to read. After the first book, my spirits were dampened about the Huxtable Series. This book restored my believes about this series.
Katherine and Jasper are one of my favorite couples. They are lively, mischievous and full of color. Firstly Jasper was a rake - but not cynical or ruthless. He went around doing anything he wanted to do, without thinking about proprieties. He made scandalous wagers, but also had a prickly conscience. He was scared of loving, yet when h More...

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Oct 27, 2010

Nisha rated it:

While I enjoyed reading this book, it wasn't all that amazing. There was something missing, and for the life of me, I can't figure it out.

The story is about the 3rd Huxtable, Katherine and the disreputable rake, Jasper. Their meeting begins as a wager, in which Jasper must seduce the chaste Katherine, completely. Yes, ladies, as in, enough to ruin her. But somehow, during their hot and heavy make out scene, Jasper grows a conscience, and decides to back out, losing his first wager. Of More...

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May 26, 2011

Christine rated it:

The second in the “Huxtable series”. There are four books in this series and this one tells the story of Katherine, the youngest sister. Having her seduction become the object of a wager goes horribly awry for Baron Montford, as in an effort to save both their reputations he must now marry her. Katherine was always attracted to Montford but after the wedding offers him a wager of her own.

I am liking this series and would highly recommend it to fans of the historical romance genre.

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Sep 13, 2009

Barbra rated it:

Although I enjoyed this book I skimmed several chapters because it did not hold my interest. The side story of Constantine keeps getting in the way of totally enjoying this series. His actions do not hold up with the facts (at least those given in the book). I went onto Mary Balogh's web site and Contantine's story will come out June 2010 entitled "Secret Affair". In the meantime I will finish the Huxtable series and hope with this knowledge I will put the mystery that is "Con

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Mar 05, 2010

Fani rated it:

This one reminded me of Liz Carlyle's The Devil You Know, not so much because of the storyline, although there is a similarity there as well (marriage of convenience between a rakehell and a proper heroine), but mainly because of the atmosphere and style. In both books the hero is apparently a happy, selfish, womaniser rakehell, who surprisingly has a touch of decency deep down, but he also has a tortured past, which is always hinted at, but revealed fully only in the end. However, the heroine i More...

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Sep 30, 2011

Mirah rated it:

The second book in the Huxtable series and not as good as book one. The characters are still great but this book was constant verbal tennis between the two main character, Katherine and Jasper. Every chapter seemed to have the same conversation and it got a bit old. There were some new characters introduced and that led to some different plot developments but, overall, I think this book was weaker in plot interest than book 1. Hopefully book 3, the story of Meg, will be better.

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