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Slightly Scandalous (Bedwyn Saga #3)
by
Mary Balogh
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress.
Meet the Bedwyns…six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality.
Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction…where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal…and where Freyja Bedwyn, the wild-hearted daughter, meets h...more
Meet the Bedwyns…six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality.
Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction…where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal…and where Freyja Bedwyn, the wild-hearted daughter, meets h...more
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Published
June 3rd 2003
by Dell
(first published January 1st 2003)
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As someone who had been quite happy hating Freyja Bedwyn since meeting her in A Summer to Remember, I have no qualms admitting that I wasn't very thrilled about reading her book. At the same time, I couldn't help feeling some kind of morbid anxiety about it, as I wondered if Ms. Balogh would be able to redeem "lovely" Freyja. So, it was with some trepidation that I started reading Slightly Scandalous...
As the story opens, Freyja has left Lindsey Hall, her older brother Wulf's estate, and is on h...more
As the story opens, Freyja has left Lindsey Hall, her older brother Wulf's estate, and is on h...more
I am a big fan of Mary Balogh. I generally like her characters as people I would enjoy knowing if they were real. For me, that is a requirement of any book I read, no matter the genre.
But, in the past when Freya was first introduced, I did not like her. She does not appear to have any sense of empathy for another human being, and she certainly is not the type of person to notice that anyone beneath the level of a Duke's sister is worth consideration.
In this book she meets Joshua. He is likable a...more
But, in the past when Freya was first introduced, I did not like her. She does not appear to have any sense of empathy for another human being, and she certainly is not the type of person to notice that anyone beneath the level of a Duke's sister is worth consideration.
In this book she meets Joshua. He is likable a...more
I started reading this series after having gone a long time without reading a Mary Balogh book. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed the series.
After finishing the whole series, I've come to learn that if one really wants to start from the beginning, especially with Freyja, one had to have read A Summer To Remember. I haven't read it, and after reading the Bedwyns, I'm not really sure I want to. Personally speaking, I hate going backwards. So if you're like me, start there first.
Anyway, I seemed t...more
After finishing the whole series, I've come to learn that if one really wants to start from the beginning, especially with Freyja, one had to have read A Summer To Remember. I haven't read it, and after reading the Bedwyns, I'm not really sure I want to. Personally speaking, I hate going backwards. So if you're like me, start there first.
Anyway, I seemed t...more
Major hang-up: how could Freyja POSSIBLY THINK that after announcing a betrothal in the middle of an assembly in Bath it could simply be dissolved and NO ONE WOULD NOTICE? She is used to the gossip mill of the ton, Joshua is not, so that was a really dense plot point/character inconsistency much as is served the rest of the story.
Other than that, the storyline was compelling. Dysfunctional families are not a modern thing and there are obvious parallels between Joshua's extended family and the Re...more
Other than that, the storyline was compelling. Dysfunctional families are not a modern thing and there are obvious parallels between Joshua's extended family and the Re...more
Third in the Bedwyn Saga historical-romance series revolving around the Bedwyn family.The couple focus is on Lady Freyja Bedwyn and Joshua Moore, Marquess of Hallmere.
My Take
Bathians??? Introducing her grandson by his first name? Going down to the kitchen herself to see how dinner preparations are coming??
I'm missing something here. Balogh has been going on and on about Bedwyns marrying only for love so why is it that Lady Freyja believes she has to take what's offered? Then there's the nonsen...more
My Take
Bathians??? Introducing her grandson by his first name? Going down to the kitchen herself to see how dinner preparations are coming??
I'm missing something here. Balogh has been going on and on about Bedwyns marrying only for love so why is it that Lady Freyja believes she has to take what's offered? Then there's the nonsen...more
I have always considered romance as an aspect in books rather than a genre, but Mary Balogh has helped me get over myself Regency style. Her brand of romance heals deep childhood wounds. I like that premise for romance. She also has very feisty women - not the impudent bratty kind that some pawn off as independence. Her female protagonists are curious, clever, funny, aware of their limitations - everything that society dictates they should not be outwardly (except if that woman is a Bedowyn). Th...more
Quest'autrice ogni volta mi stupisce per la dolcezza e l'emozione che ogni sua storia suscita.
Anche questo è un romanzo che non si può far altro che adorare, come non si può non adorare uno dei personaggi femminili meglio caratterizzati e più riusciti che abbia mai letto, quello di Freya.
Un personaggio femminile originalissimo, completamente fuori dal comune, così moderna con la sua autoironia sferzante e spiazzante, che nonostante questi suoi tratti, non risulta mai fuori luogo e anacronistic...more
Anche questo è un romanzo che non si può far altro che adorare, come non si può non adorare uno dei personaggi femminili meglio caratterizzati e più riusciti che abbia mai letto, quello di Freya.
Un personaggio femminile originalissimo, completamente fuori dal comune, così moderna con la sua autoironia sferzante e spiazzante, che nonostante questi suoi tratti, non risulta mai fuori luogo e anacronistic...more
Of all the books in the series, this book has robbed me of my heart and has become my top favorite of all! Gosh, I am head over ears in love with it!
Lady Frejya Bedwyn, the headstrong, handsome, funny and witty younger sister of the Duke of Bewcastle is not the ordinary polite lady of the ton but someone full of exuberance. I loved her! Riding horse, throwing punches and having fun in the midst of chaos... well, there's no one who does that better.
Joshua Moore, the humorous, fun-loving, caring,...more
Lady Frejya Bedwyn, the headstrong, handsome, funny and witty younger sister of the Duke of Bewcastle is not the ordinary polite lady of the ton but someone full of exuberance. I loved her! Riding horse, throwing punches and having fun in the midst of chaos... well, there's no one who does that better.
Joshua Moore, the humorous, fun-loving, caring,...more
I,ve read this book quite a few times and loved it every one of them. When I first picked it up, before I even opened the book or looked at the blurb I wasn't keen on it, the reason being the cover. I HATED IT. OK, most people probably wouldn't have seen the UK cover but in my opinion it was horrible.
So, when I first opened the book I expected it to be a rubbish and a disgrace to regency romance genre since despite the saying don't judge a book by its cover most people (myself included) do. I wa...more
So, when I first opened the book I expected it to be a rubbish and a disgrace to regency romance genre since despite the saying don't judge a book by its cover most people (myself included) do. I wa...more
I have had the pleasure of reading several of Balogh's other titles, but this is my first foray into the Bedwyn family. While I did enjoy the book, I found it to be repetitious. Everything was "haughty". Freyja had a haughty tone, a haughty manner, haughty expressions, she conducted herself haughtily. By the time I finished reading the first few chapters, I was heartily sick of the word "haughty".
And apparently, in order to make the reader believe that Freyja is spirited and strongwilled, she m...more
And apparently, in order to make the reader believe that Freyja is spirited and strongwilled, she m...more
While it's been a few years since I've read this book, I remembered not really liking it all that much. That changed this second time around. I enjoyed it immensely which surprised me because Freyja is probably my least favorite character in this little connected universe that Balogh has woven throughout a dozen or so novels so hitting Freyja's story was something I was initially hesitant to read especially since I recalled not being all that impressed the first time around. But Freyja grew on...more
To the Point: The third book of the Bedwyn series was as much fun to read as the first two. I am very eager to read the remaining three and grateful that they have already been written so I do not have to wait for their release. While Slightly Scandalous may have been “more of the same” I simply can’t get enough.
In More Detail: (spoilers) In this novel we follow Freyja who is the older of the two Bedwyn sisters. She is a finely figured but not classically beautiful lady with a rather male perso...more
In More Detail: (spoilers) In this novel we follow Freyja who is the older of the two Bedwyn sisters. She is a finely figured but not classically beautiful lady with a rather male perso...more
Nov 19, 2011
Lori McD
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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3.5 stars
I enjoyed so much of this book! However, it felt. Very. Long. There is so much story contained between its pages, you can't feel cheated at all for the price, especially if you borrow it from the library!
If I were to describe the book, I'd describe it in three acts:
Act One: A Scheme is Hatched
Freya and Joshua meet in Bath (after a quick meeting in an unnamed inn on the way to Bath). Joshua verifies his aunt's scheme to marry him off to his cousin. Joshuah and Freya scheme to thwart his...more
I enjoyed so much of this book! However, it felt. Very. Long. There is so much story contained between its pages, you can't feel cheated at all for the price, especially if you borrow it from the library!
If I were to describe the book, I'd describe it in three acts:
Act One: A Scheme is Hatched
Freya and Joshua meet in Bath (after a quick meeting in an unnamed inn on the way to Bath). Joshua verifies his aunt's scheme to marry him off to his cousin. Joshuah and Freya scheme to thwart his...more
When the man she was in love with is expecting his first child with his new wife, Lady Freyja Bedwyn leaves the neighborhood for Bath. On her way there, Joshua Moore (who has lately inherited the title of Marquess of Hallmere) runs into her bedchamber to escape a pair of blackmailers. Freyja looks at him down her aristocratic (read: gigantic) nose and tells him if he doesn't leave, she'll scream. He mocks her and says she wouldn't dare expose herself to gossip in that way. Freyja promptly scream...more
I just can't get enough of this Bedwyn family! I was not looking forward to Freyja's story at all, I truly hated her in the other books, although we got to catch glimpses of her in a better light in Slightly Wicked Well we got to know her well enough here that I was able to get over my dislike of her and am now full of appreciation of her spectacular wit! She and Joshua certainly met their match in each other even though they were opposites in many ways. He was described as gorgeous while she i...more
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There wasn't anything particularly "scandalous" about Mary Balogh's Slightly Scandalous, which leads me to a burning question: Who the hell is naming books these days? I could throw a mish-mash of words in a hat, draw out 2, and I swear to all the Your Graces and My Lords in Regency England, I could come up with a more apt title. OK, I suppose that the plot of this book - my first Mary Balogh read, new things are cool - was slightly scandalous, but aren't all these Regency Romance plots the same...more
Genre: Regency Romance
This is the third book in the series about the Bedwyn siblings, however, there’s really no need to have read any of the previous books. In fact, it’s quite possible that reading the prequel to the Bedwyn books (A Summer to Remember) is actually a detriment, as the heroine (Freyja Bedwyn) of this novel is the villain of that one. Balogh succeeds in a difficult task with the portrayal of Freyja - I like her very much as a heroine of this novel, but even so, it’s easy to see h...more
This is the third book in the series about the Bedwyn siblings, however, there’s really no need to have read any of the previous books. In fact, it’s quite possible that reading the prequel to the Bedwyn books (A Summer to Remember) is actually a detriment, as the heroine (Freyja Bedwyn) of this novel is the villain of that one. Balogh succeeds in a difficult task with the portrayal of Freyja - I like her very much as a heroine of this novel, but even so, it’s easy to see h...more
Slightly Scandalous is the third book in the Slightly series by Mary Balogh. We first meet Freyja Bedwyn in A Summer to Remember. I didn't like Freyja in that book. I didn't like any of the Bedwyns, in fact. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed reading Aiden's book Slightly Married and Rannulf's Slightly Wicked. I figured that if MB could turn Rannulf into a sexy, likable hero then I should like Freyja too, right?
Wrong. Freyja Bedwyn was easily one of the worst heroines I have come a...more
Wrong. Freyja Bedwyn was easily one of the worst heroines I have come a...more
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May 29, 2011
Tishke
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5 of 5 stars
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My favorite in the series. This was exactly what I wanted and expected for Freyja! She is the most entertaining, unique "leading lady" that I have read about in a regency romance novel. She is not a great beauty and she is haughty, feisty, spoiled, proud and so very complex. She needed a hero like mischievous, handsome Joshua with his twinkling eyes; a man who would laugh at her antics, forcing her to laugh at herself. I believe I fell for both characters when their first meeting occurred, when...more
At first I didn't like Lady Freyja, but as the story progressed I came to like her. She is a smart, bold women who doesn't step down from noone, or anything. Her and Joshua Moore make quite the couple. The first and second time she meets him she punches him in his nose. The third time they meet they decide to lie to everyone and tell them that they are getting married so that he won't have to be forced to marry his cousin. They didn't expect to fall in love with each other. I have to say that fo...more
Setting – late 1700’s; the society and spa at Bath, England; Penhallow estate in Cornwell, England – by the ocean.
Theme – love, responsibility, letting go of the past
Characters-
Lady Freyja Bedwyn – 25 years old; handsome, not pretty (dark brows, light hair, crooked tip of nose); nice figure; outspoken; independent; can hold her own against 4 brothers; easily bored; betrothed to titled neighbor, had a month long love with his younger brother, Kit (who was going through some personal war related t...more
Theme – love, responsibility, letting go of the past
Characters-
Lady Freyja Bedwyn – 25 years old; handsome, not pretty (dark brows, light hair, crooked tip of nose); nice figure; outspoken; independent; can hold her own against 4 brothers; easily bored; betrothed to titled neighbor, had a month long love with his younger brother, Kit (who was going through some personal war related t...more
My favorite Bedwyn family story so far.
One of my favorite heroes, also. Joshua Moore is a fun hero. He is extremely handsome with blonde hair, smiling lips, a good nature and loved by everyone (well except for a wicked aunt). He is just the one for Freyja Bedwyn who has been unlucky in love and is not a very nice person in past books, but Josh brings out the best in her and helps to channel her wild side. Notice I said channel not tame.
Freyja is just the one for Josh Marquess of Hallmere. There...more
One of my favorite heroes, also. Joshua Moore is a fun hero. He is extremely handsome with blonde hair, smiling lips, a good nature and loved by everyone (well except for a wicked aunt). He is just the one for Freyja Bedwyn who has been unlucky in love and is not a very nice person in past books, but Josh brings out the best in her and helps to channel her wild side. Notice I said channel not tame.
Freyja is just the one for Josh Marquess of Hallmere. There...more
Freyja just isn't my girl. I don't think her characterization is realistic. Her mannish, outrageous behavior wouldn't have gone over so well in society back then, even with her being a Duke's daughter and sister.
I liked Josh well enough, but dude, seriously, express a little more of those negative emotions! His nearly perpetual confidence and positive, optimistic disposition drove me a tad batty.
The side characters on Josh's side were decent. I appreciated Prue being written as differently-abl...more
I liked Josh well enough, but dude, seriously, express a little more of those negative emotions! His nearly perpetual confidence and positive, optimistic disposition drove me a tad batty.
The side characters on Josh's side were decent. I appreciated Prue being written as differently-abl...more
Okay, this one was a complete surprise. I couldn't imagine any way in which I would view Freyja Bedwin in a better light, having been introduced to her and her arrogance and rude behavior in previous books. The book, the characters, and the getting to know Freyja were all a delight as was the plot and the character of the Marquess of Hallmere. The laughing, not-so-serious, mischievous hero is not my favorite type, but Ms. Balogh pulls this off wonderfully so that you are so hoping for the best f...more
I NEED TO SLOW DOWN.
But I liked this. It's probably my least favorite of the three so far, but by like a fractional amount. The thing I liked least was probably the resolution of the Freyja/Kit situation, because seriously, why was it all on her to be the bigger person? He had zero consideration for her feelings and I was supposed to be happy that she had to suck it up and be happy for him and befriend his wife? No.
But I genuinely like the Bedwyn family and I like that we're getting to see Wufl...more
But I liked this. It's probably my least favorite of the three so far, but by like a fractional amount. The thing I liked least was probably the resolution of the Freyja/Kit situation, because seriously, why was it all on her to be the bigger person? He had zero consideration for her feelings and I was supposed to be happy that she had to suck it up and be happy for him and befriend his wife? No.
But I genuinely like the Bedwyn family and I like that we're getting to see Wufl...more
Per essere un romanzo della Balogh è piuttosto movimentato tra il protagonista che viene accusato ingiustamente di omicidio, la cugina di lui che è un po' "ritardata" (forse è un termine un po' eccessivo, ma non me ne viene uno più soft considerando come viene descritta nel libro) e persino la fidanzata di lui che molla un pugno sul naso ad una odiosissima zia... insomma, è così movimentato che si legge d'un fiato però forse l'autrice ha messo insieme troppe situazioni al limite...
La frase che m...more
La frase che m...more
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booksonboard.com as usual mary balogh writes the best regency romances. continuing onin her series this book tell the story of freyja bedwyn. we were introduced to her character in the previuos two books but were not sure i we liked her or not. in this book we come to love her for her hidden depths. we see that she was hurt by being jilted but is really a caring person behind her mask. what makes this book unique is that the main characters become friends...more
booksonboard.com as usual mary balogh writes the best regency romances. continuing onin her series this book tell the story of freyja bedwyn. we were introduced to her character in the previuos two books but were not sure i we liked her or not. in this book we come to love her for her hidden depths. we see that she was hurt by being jilted but is really a caring person behind her mask. what makes this book unique is that the main characters become friends...more
Apr 19, 2013
Connie N.
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5 of 5 stars
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Just when I think this series can't get any better, along comes this story about Freyja Bedwyn and Joshua Moore. Wonderful! Freyja is the fiercely independent and strong Bedwyn sister who I wasn't sure I'd really like, but she has become one of my favorite characters once we've gotten to know her beyond her haughty exterior. Joshua is a devil-may-care newly-inherited Marquess who is also annoyingly cavalier upon first meeting, but he too develops into a warm and responsible man as he grows in hi...more
Oct 30, 2012
Heather
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Another grinning winker.
There's also this trend with certain writers that I'm not sure how to describe exactly, but am definitely not crazy about. They seem to feel like it's necessary for the heroine to humiliate herself in some fashion, sometimes multiple times. Sometimes the hero gets to humiliate himself, too. I'm not sure why this is supposed to be a necessary component of the road to love. Are we revealing our true selves? Or not caring what others think? Or is this supposed to be some var...more
There's also this trend with certain writers that I'm not sure how to describe exactly, but am definitely not crazy about. They seem to feel like it's necessary for the heroine to humiliate herself in some fashion, sometimes multiple times. Sometimes the hero gets to humiliate himself, too. I'm not sure why this is supposed to be a necessary component of the road to love. Are we revealing our true selves? Or not caring what others think? Or is this supposed to be some var...more
Slightly Scandalous had the story of Freyja whom had the best friends/denied love storyline going on which I also adore. She didn't however end up with her childhood friend (who I just found out is the main character of another one of Ms Balogh's novels!).
While I enjoyed Freyja's character I'm still not overly sure about the guy she ended up with. While the personality was a match, I guess with her personality type I hadn't expected her to end up with a happy-go-lucky type.
I'm glad she got ove...more
While I enjoyed Freyja's character I'm still not overly sure about the guy she ended up with. While the personality was a match, I guess with her personality type I hadn't expected her to end up with a happy-go-lucky type.
I'm glad she got ove...more
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Mary Balogh has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award.
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“There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it.
What the devil was the reason?”
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What the devil was the reason?”
Maybe my perspective is different in regards to Freyja because I haven't read "A Summer to Remember" yet, howeve...more
Feb 16, 2013 09:59am
That said, Freyja's personality still i...more
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