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To Desire a Devil (Legend of the Four Soldiers #4)
by
Elizabeth Hoyt (Goodreads Author)
Nothing Is More Intoxicating
Reynaud St. Aubyn has spent the last seven years in hellish captivity. Now half mad with fever he bursts into his ancestral home and demands his due. Can this wild-looking man truly be the last earl's heir, thought murdered by Indians years ago?
Or Dangerous
Beatrice Corning, the niece of the present earl, is a proper English miss. But she has a...more
Reynaud St. Aubyn has spent the last seven years in hellish captivity. Now half mad with fever he bursts into his ancestral home and demands his due. Can this wild-looking man truly be the last earl's heir, thought murdered by Indians years ago?
Or Dangerous
Beatrice Corning, the niece of the present earl, is a proper English miss. But she has a...more
Mass Market Paperback, 340 pages
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November 1st 2009
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After seven years of captivity Reynaud St.Aubyn finally makes it home, but to a home much different then the one he left, now to reclaim all that is rightfully his, he'll need to prove not only his he not mad, but to have a woman marry him and quickly, as he's drawn to the gentle and calm Beatrice Corning. He feels a deep pull toward Beatrice as Reynaud must fight off his demons to claim more then his wealth back but love......
I’ve looked forward to this book for sometime and was disappointed...more
I’ve looked forward to this book for sometime and was disappointed...more
Reynaud St. Aubyn has just returned home after 7 long years of being held captive. Tortured and half crazy, he can't comprehend why there are strangers in his home and with his title. But then he meets Beatrice the niece of the new Earl and he is drawn to her like no other.
All through the first three books it's known (at least at the time) and assumed that Reynaud St. Aubyn died in the American Colonies. Tortured and killed by Indians. This event was witnessed by his friend and fellow soldiers....more
All through the first three books it's known (at least at the time) and assumed that Reynaud St. Aubyn died in the American Colonies. Tortured and killed by Indians. This event was witnessed by his friend and fellow soldiers....more
This is the last book in the series and again another very good read. Beatrice Corning is having her own little political tea party when a wild looking man bursts in and claims that he is Reynaud St. Aubyn, Lord Hope. Reynaurd was thought to be killed in an ambush 7 years ago. But instead he had been a captive and slave until he escaped and made his way back to England.
He has been advised that he wouldn't look like such a crazy man if he would take a wife. So when Reynaud starts making advances...more
He has been advised that he wouldn't look like such a crazy man if he would take a wife. So when Reynaud starts making advances...more
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I think that Elizabeth Hoyt tops the list of really good emotional/angsty type historical romance authors.
I LOVED The Raven Prince and the following books in that series. Hoyt became an instant "auto-buy" author for me after that series.
This series, the four soldiers series, has not been my favorite. The other three books in the series were pretty good...just not memorable.
However, I really did not like this book. It started out well with the return of a war hero thought dead for the last four...more
I LOVED The Raven Prince and the following books in that series. Hoyt became an instant "auto-buy" author for me after that series.
This series, the four soldiers series, has not been my favorite. The other three books in the series were pretty good...just not memorable.
However, I really did not like this book. It started out well with the return of a war hero thought dead for the last four...more
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Since there was no courting and no romance, and the protagonists jumped straight into bed (unbelievable considing her social status, the time they live in, and the fact that she had never done it before), this book seemed Iike a series of erotic scenes, interspersed with "he loves me/he loves me nots", torture scenes, and clumsy PTSD incidents. I got this as an audioook and actually had to laugh out loud at when he suddenly sees everyone as soldiers and "Indians".
I never felt like Reynaud deser...more
I never felt like Reynaud deser...more
Nov 10, 2009
Fani
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2 of 5 stars
Shelves:
romance-historical,
2009-purchase,
hero-is-tortured,
hero-is-cold-or-rough,
emotional,
heroine-is-stupid,
hero-i-disliked,
waste-of-time,
mystery-subplot,
heroine-miss-goody-two-shoes,
lust-at-first-sight,
paperbacks-read,
i-cant-believe-i-finished-this,
heroes-hall-of-shame,
hero-is-asshat
Readers who've read the previous books in the series, would want to read this one that conludes the search for the traitor of Spinners Falls and brings all the previous couples together. Other than that, there is little to recommend this book.
The hero, Reynaud St Aubyn, was considered dead. However, this book starts with his sudden appearence at the heroine's political party. The heroine's uncle is the current Earl of Blanchard, the title that would normally belong to the hero. Reynaud, coming...more
The hero, Reynaud St Aubyn, was considered dead. However, this book starts with his sudden appearence at the heroine's political party. The heroine's uncle is the current Earl of Blanchard, the title that would normally belong to the hero. Reynaud, coming...more
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Pesta di rumah Earl of Blanchard di kejutkan oleh kedatangan orang asing yang tiba2 masuk dan oleh Reggie, sang earl di kenali sebagai Lord Hope, Reynaud St.Aubyn yang sudah di anggap meninggal 7 tahun yang lalu saat perang di Amerika bersama Indian, di Spinner Falls, mati terbakar atas kesaksian 3 sahabat nya sendiri, Samuel, Jasper dan Alistair Munroe.
Beatrice sang keponakan Earl, berkeras untuk merawat Lord Hope (yang ternyata sudah lama di impikannya cuma gara2 melihat lukisan Reynaud).
Deng...more
Beatrice sang keponakan Earl, berkeras untuk merawat Lord Hope (yang ternyata sudah lama di impikannya cuma gara2 melihat lukisan Reynaud).
Deng...more
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It has been a while since I read this, but I do remember that it was a pretty good book.
"Una volta, mi hai chiesto se ti amavo. Ebbene, la risposta è si. Ti amo più della vita stessa e nulla per me conta più che saperti sana e salva"
Dei quattro numeri che compongono la seria "la leggenda dei quattro soldati" ho letto solo il secondo, che non mi era piaciuto molto. Saltando a giorni migliori il terzo (lei è una cortigiana...orrore!) ho deciso di leggere il quarto e ultimo e non me ne sono pentita *_* Beatrice e Reynaud sono una coppia perfetta e complementare, entrambi coraggiosi a...more
Dei quattro numeri che compongono la seria "la leggenda dei quattro soldati" ho letto solo il secondo, che non mi era piaciuto molto. Saltando a giorni migliori il terzo (lei è una cortigiana...orrore!) ho deciso di leggere il quarto e ultimo e non me ne sono pentita *_* Beatrice e Reynaud sono una coppia perfetta e complementare, entrambi coraggiosi a...more
It was my first Hoyt book, ages ago, and it's just as good on reread. Actually, even better, since I now read the other books in the series this is the last part of.
Remember the dead best friend of the hero in book 2 of the series? Well, Reynaud St. Aubin is the not-really-dead friend in question, and is the beyond fucked up hero of this one. If you like fucked up and tortured heroes and oodles of h/c, this is the book for you. Reynaud has been a captive of an Indian tribe for seven years, but...more
Remember the dead best friend of the hero in book 2 of the series? Well, Reynaud St. Aubin is the not-really-dead friend in question, and is the beyond fucked up hero of this one. If you like fucked up and tortured heroes and oodles of h/c, this is the book for you. Reynaud has been a captive of an Indian tribe for seven years, but...more
Apr 02, 2013
Angélica
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3 of 5 stars
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People who like damaged ex-slave Love Interests
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2.5 stars for now.
The best thing in the book, in my opinion, was Reynaud's experience as a captive, then a slave, during the seven years he was believed dead.
I feel ambivalent towards Beatrice and Reynaud's relationship. I'm glad they got together in the end, but I think it was too early for everything to have happened like it did to them (the events in the book unfolded within a span of a mere couple months!). I mean, Beatrice still couldn't divorce her fantasy Reynaud from the real Reynaud. It...more
The best thing in the book, in my opinion, was Reynaud's experience as a captive, then a slave, during the seven years he was believed dead.
I feel ambivalent towards Beatrice and Reynaud's relationship. I'm glad they got together in the end, but I think it was too early for everything to have happened like it did to them (the events in the book unfolded within a span of a mere couple months!). I mean, Beatrice still couldn't divorce her fantasy Reynaud from the real Reynaud. It...more
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I chose to review this book because I wanted to look at a romance through my IBWB lens, instead of my TGTBTU lens. After all, I do the same thing for a number of young adult books. But I wanted to come at a romance thinking about how I would've liked it in high school, as opposed to now. (I can tell you that in high school my favorite romance was THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME.)
TO DESIRE A DEVIL is the fourth and final book in The Legends of the Four Soldiers series, but it stands fine on its own. An...more
TO DESIRE A DEVIL is the fourth and final book in The Legends of the Four Soldiers series, but it stands fine on its own. An...more
I didn't like this one quite as much as the previous in the series.
Dead-man-returns plot: This was a good basis for a "hero" story. The plot occasionally stopped for Beatrice's requested explainations from Reynaud about his seven years in captivity but overall it worked. But Reynaud seems LESS a fully developed character than Munroe.
Overarching traitor plot: After the buildup of four books the resolution was really perfunctory. Really? The dude gets interrogated in a carriage (which we don't see...more
Dead-man-returns plot: This was a good basis for a "hero" story. The plot occasionally stopped for Beatrice's requested explainations from Reynaud about his seven years in captivity but overall it worked. But Reynaud seems LESS a fully developed character than Munroe.
Overarching traitor plot: After the buildup of four books the resolution was really perfunctory. Really? The dude gets interrogated in a carriage (which we don't see...more
I followed this series avidly enough, but my interested waned a bit with this book. I could not swallow the opening scene, where the hero got himself from somewhere in the America, across the sea to England, to wander from port to his heredity home in London, without any of the many, many people who knew him aware he arrived, or indeed that he was alive at all. The scene reads like a deus ex machina that unfortunately opens the book: The hero had been there, now he's here, also he's ill so we ca...more
Hoyt continues to confound me. I really enjoyed the Prince's trilogy: The Raven Prince, The Leopard Prince, and The Serpent Prince; couldn't stand Wicked Intentions; and have not been overly impressed with the two chapters that I've read of the Legend of the Four Soldiers.
She has great plots, but everything seems rushed. Strange as it may sound, I'd like it if her books were a little longer. In To Desire a Devil, I just couldn't "feel" the romance, and the final reveal of the traitor was almost...more
She has great plots, but everything seems rushed. Strange as it may sound, I'd like it if her books were a little longer. In To Desire a Devil, I just couldn't "feel" the romance, and the final reveal of the traitor was almost...more
Jul 10, 2011
Anna
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
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Excellent end to an outstanding series.
Ms. Hoyt is at the top of her game. I hope she keeps writing for a long, long time. She is definitely on auto-buy status for me.
Reynaud has been missing and presumed dead for 7 years. We have known about him since the beginning of this series, as his sister Emeline is the heroine of the very first book in the series, To Taste Temptation. But against all odds, Reynaud escapes from captivity with Indians in America and makes his way back to England, arriving...more
Ms. Hoyt is at the top of her game. I hope she keeps writing for a long, long time. She is definitely on auto-buy status for me.
Reynaud has been missing and presumed dead for 7 years. We have known about him since the beginning of this series, as his sister Emeline is the heroine of the very first book in the series, To Taste Temptation. But against all odds, Reynaud escapes from captivity with Indians in America and makes his way back to England, arriving...more
I was pleasantly surprised by this book, I have to admit. I started reading it to get it read and get the review done, I'm in one of those phases, thank goodness they only last a day or so, anyway...I started to read it and about 2 chapters in, I was hooked. The book has wonderful character development, great plot-in movement and drama, steamy romance, raw emotion, and my personal favorite, excellent vocabulary. The characters are what draw you into the story, it starts with such a young (-ish f...more
Mar 07, 2011
willaful
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This was hard to rate, because my feelings for it went all over the place. One chapter I'd be admiring an interesting secondary character or enjoying a hot love scene, the next I'd be going, "huh?" So this is one of those "darn, it could have been so much better" three star ratings, rather than one of those "It was good, I liked it" three star ratings.
Uneven plotting is the book's biggest flaw. I hate when a great deal of narrative attention is paid to something that turns out to be unimportant...more
Uneven plotting is the book's biggest flaw. I hate when a great deal of narrative attention is paid to something that turns out to be unimportant...more
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Hoyt just can't write a bad book. I was totally engrossed in this book despite it being far from my favorite of hers. I've been dissecting the "why" of my reaction for days. There seems to be a fundamental mismatch between the heroine and hero here. Hoyt's depiction of Reynaud's PTSD flashback where he believes he's back in a battle is one of the most powerful scenes I have ever read, particularly in a historical. I wanted to weep for him. He's a complex character, and I kept brainstorming who t...more
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TO DESIRE A DEVIL is the last in Hoyt's Legend of the Four Soldiers series of books. Having only read the one directly preceding this one (TO BEGUILE A BEAST), I still only had a tenuous grasp of exactly what the nature of the underlying plot elements for the books were. A traitor amongst the group, each book was modeled after a fairy tale in some way, and all four male heroes were wounded in some way (mentally, physically, emotionally...). We met Beatrice before, as well as learned of her infat...more
Reynaud St. Aubyn, Viscount Hope, has fought his way back from torture and enslavement in the American Colonies. He was declared dead after most of the men in his regiment were massacred after being betrayed by a traitor. Not only has Reynaud been implicated as the traitor but his estate has passed on to a distant relative, Reginald St. Aubyn, who is reluctant to relinquish control. Reginald's niece, Beatrice Corning has always been fascinated by Reynaud's portrait but can find no trace of the l...more
The fourth and final installment to the Legend of the Four Soldiers series by Elizabeth Hoyt. After believed dead for the last seven years, Reynaud St. Aubyn finally makes it home. There he meets Beatrice Corning, the niece of the present Earl of Blanchard, a title to actually belongs to Reynard.
Wonderful ending to the Four Soldier series. But I was slightly disappointed that there wasn't a little more action/suspense towards the end. It was wrapped up a little to easy and quietly to me.
Wonderful ending to the Four Soldier series. But I was slightly disappointed that there wasn't a little more action/suspense towards the end. It was wrapped up a little to easy and quietly to me.
The year is 1765, and the place England. The son of an earl and heir to the title Earl of Blanchard, Reynaud St. Aubyn, once a carefree youth, went to war where he was reportedly murdered by Indians in the American Colonies. After the death of his father and without Reynaud there to inherit, the title passed on to the Uncle of Beatrice Corning. Beatrice, protective of her kind and not-too-healthy uncle, as well as a great deal many others, are shocked when a haggard and sick looking Reynaud bur...more
Too bad the wrap up to this series was just meh. This story was, on the surface, a sure-fire thing; a closer look revealed all sorts of problems. The kind of problems that caused me to say "oh, really??".
Our hero, Reynaud St Aubyn, has returned from the dead. Believed murdered by the Indians during the colonial wars the title has passed to a distant, elderly cousin (Reginald). Reginald now lives in the London town house and holds the seat in the House of Lords. His niece, Beatrice, is his hostes...more
Our hero, Reynaud St Aubyn, has returned from the dead. Believed murdered by the Indians during the colonial wars the title has passed to a distant, elderly cousin (Reginald). Reginald now lives in the London town house and holds the seat in the House of Lords. His niece, Beatrice, is his hostes...more
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After reading the first three books in the Legend of the Four Soldiers series in less than a month or so (I think?), I always wondered how the series would end. We'll definitely get a happily ever after of course, but will To Desire A Devil make me feel completely satisfied or would there be loose ends and unfinished feelings? The answer would be unfinished feelings.
I couldn't wait to meet Reynaud, the hero of To Desire A Devil, especially since he was supposed to be dead in the...more
After reading the first three books in the Legend of the Four Soldiers series in less than a month or so (I think?), I always wondered how the series would end. We'll definitely get a happily ever after of course, but will To Desire A Devil make me feel completely satisfied or would there be loose ends and unfinished feelings? The answer would be unfinished feelings.
I couldn't wait to meet Reynaud, the hero of To Desire A Devil, especially since he was supposed to be dead in the...more
My Summary:
When a wild looking man staggers into Beatrice’s boring political tea party, then collapses at her feet, it sets her life into a tailspin. Could this savage, dangerous, and hateful stranger be the same man whose portrait she’d mooned over for years?
At the age of twenty-four, Beatrice has given up hope of finding the one man in London Society who can love her for herself, see the woman she is inside, and who will love her as passionately as she desires to be loved.
Reynaud St. Aubyn, Vi...more
When a wild looking man staggers into Beatrice’s boring political tea party, then collapses at her feet, it sets her life into a tailspin. Could this savage, dangerous, and hateful stranger be the same man whose portrait she’d mooned over for years?
At the age of twenty-four, Beatrice has given up hope of finding the one man in London Society who can love her for herself, see the woman she is inside, and who will love her as passionately as she desires to be loved.
Reynaud St. Aubyn, Vi...more
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Elizabeth Hoyt is a New York Times bestselling author of historical romance. She also writes deliciously fun contemporary romance under the name Julia Harper. Elizabeth lives in central Illinois with three untrained dogs, two angelic but bickering children, and one long-suffering husband.
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“Shh,” he whispered. “You asked me if I loved you. I do. I love you more than life itself. Nothing matters in this world but that you live. Can you do that for me? Can you live?
-Reynaud to Beatrice.”
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-Reynaud to Beatrice.”
“And how closely related to you is Cousin Beatrice?”
Reynaud gave him a look. “Not that close.
“Glad to hear it.” Vale dropped into a cushioned chair. “I hope she recovers fully so that you can then propose to her. Because I tell you now, matrimony truly is a blessed state, enjoyed by all men of good sense and halfway adequate bedroom skills.”
“Thank you for that edifying thought,” Reynaud growled.
Vale waved his glass. “Think nothing of it. I say, you haven’t forgotten how to treat a lady in the bedroom, have you?”
“Oh, for God’s sake!”
“You’ve been out of refined society for years and years now. I could give you some pointers, should you need them.”
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Reynaud gave him a look. “Not that close.
“Glad to hear it.” Vale dropped into a cushioned chair. “I hope she recovers fully so that you can then propose to her. Because I tell you now, matrimony truly is a blessed state, enjoyed by all men of good sense and halfway adequate bedroom skills.”
“Thank you for that edifying thought,” Reynaud growled.
Vale waved his glass. “Think nothing of it. I say, you haven’t forgotten how to treat a lady in the bedroom, have you?”
“Oh, for God’s sake!”
“You’ve been out of refined society for years and years now. I could give you some pointers, should you need them.”
I could not agree more, this book was just blah!
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