Dls’s Comments (group member since Sep 14, 2010)

Dls’s comments from the Fans of Eloisa James & Julia Quinn group.

Yeah if she only heard it once at a very emotional moment...

Yea she would have--but she might have forgotten.

Just finished It happened at Midnight. Wow. I am going to go back and reread the whole series.
I wonder when she will get to Lyon and Olivia...

I have no clue...

Finished Beckman by Grace Burrowes. I love her writing and the relationships and I am driven absolutely crazy by her weak melodramatic plotting, her inability to pay heed to the customs of the time or her own timeline or to tell a straightforward story. I'm pretty sure there are three separate scenes where the hero figures out the heroine secret. She badly needs editing !

This appeared in Tessa Dare's Any Duchess Will Do, which I loved.
Colin and Minerva find their HEA in A Week To be Wicked

I guess I didn't puzzle anyone! I will wait until tomorrow night to give the answer anyway

This book is FABULOUS, too. If you havent read it, do! I actually liked it better than Hero and Heroine's book, but this was such a nice little scene I couldn't resist using it.

In a series, I like to see how couples from earlier books are doing. Often, unfortunately, they are rather bland scenes, with little of the character that made me so enjoy them before.
This scene, however, both brought the couple very much to life and really convinced me that they would indeed last--unlikely though they are.
So, see if you can recognize either this book or the book in which hero and heroine fall in love! (Hero2 and Heroine 2 are the names of the couple in the book this is taken from.)

"Hero. Hero, something terrible has happened."
Hero looked up from the letter he was writing. His wife stood in the doorway of his study--as always, an enticing vision of dark hair and plump kissable lips.
But her lovely eyes had gone grim behind her spectacles.
He rose from his desk at once. "Good God, heroine. What is it?"
"We must do something," she said.
"Of course we will, darling." He crossed the room to her. "Of course we will. I could crash through the window this instant, if you asked. Or pen a strongly worded letter to The Times. But the actions we take will be more effective if you explain to me first what's going on."
He took her by the shoulders and guided her to the divan.
"Its that horrid, debauched friend of yours," she said. "From before we were married."
He chuckled."That description fits a shocking number of people, I'm afraid. You'll have to narrow it down."
"The duke. That grabby, disgusting Duke from W. Grange."
"Hero2?"
"Yes, thats the one. He's got Heroine2. Our Heroine 2, from the Bull and Blossom. And he's holding her hostage here in Town." She shuddered. "God knows what he's done to the poor thing. Probalby made her his sordid love puppet."
Hero struggled not to laugh.
"Heroine, I'm trying to follow you here, but you're making it very difficult. Perhaps you can start again and tell me what actually happened today."
"I saw them together. I was going to the bookshop..." She blushed a little. "To see if any more copies of my book had been sold. I can't help it."
"And had they?"
"Yes," she said proudly. "Three."
"Excellent, heroine. That's brilliant." Hero had only purchased two of them himself.
He knew she'd throttle him for buying them up, but he couldn't help it. The market for geological treatises wasn't especially robust. But she was so damned adorable when she was pleased with herself--and especially creative in bed. His motives were entirely selfish.
"Anyhow, as I was approaching the bookshop, I saw the two of them leaving it. The Disgusting Duke and Heroine2. Clear as day."
Hero sighed. He hated to prod at a sore spot, but this was too much to be believed. "Were you wearing your spectacles?"
She gave him an offended look. "Of course I was."
"Still, I think you must have been mistaken."
"I'm not. I know I'm not, hero. Don't you believe me?"
"I believe, without a doubt, that you believe you saw them." He clasped one of her sweet little hands in his and stroked it soothingly. "But I still think it a great improbability."
"It's true that two more different people never existed," heroine agreed. "That duke is vile and debauched. And heroine2 is so well-meaning."
"Well. Opposites do occasionally attract. And [heroine's town] women 'abducted' by rakes are not always so unwillling as the observer might suspect."
She smiled. "I suppose that's true."
"Before we go haring off on a rescue mission, let's consider a few bits of information. From all evidence, heroine2 had no means of traveling to London. Secondly, I know Hero2. The man would never be near a bookshop. And last'--he placed a light, affectionate touch to her nose--"you have been complaining that your spectacles need new lenses. A mistake seems the most likely explanation."
"Hero--"
"However," he added, "I will do all I can to set your mind at ease. Today, I'll ask around at the clubs. See what gossip there is of Hero2."
"That's a good idea. I'll pay a call on [friend and her husband]. If anything were amiss in [heroine's town] they would have heard."
"Excellent. And if our little fact-finding investigations turn up nothing, we'll perform an experiment. We'll call at Hero2's House tomorrow."
She nodded. Her eyes misted with tears.
"Darling heroine." He stroked her cheek. "Are you truly that concerned?"
"No," she said. "Oh, hero. I'm just so proud." She squeezed his hand. "You're using the scientific method."

I just finished Cecilia Grant's new book A Woman Entangled. I loved it. I wasn't bothered by Kate's longing to get back into upper crust society in part because she also saw it as a way to reunite her father with his family and protect her sister . I admire her writing but couldn't finish her last book because it was so grim--I will try it again . I also read Williowleaf lane and liked many things about it but found the hero's silence about who was the real drug dealer completely implausible especially given that his daughter believed it was him.

Irish eyes I completely agree about the newcomer. I really liked it but it wasn't about Mac and Gina

I totally agree Susan but not my moms cup of tea.
Is anyone else getting notice from Barnes and Noble that preordered books are now available months after they were actually released?

Nope I haven't read it at all! Now I have to and also figure out the similar scene it brings to mind...

I have five books downloading tomorrow--by Julie Ann Long, Cecilia Grant, Susan mallery Jill shalvis and Robyn Carr. I expect to read them all as I nurse my mom through knee replacement surgery....,

Hm. I know I read it. I have an idea but I'm not sure

I liked this much better than the last few. The emotional path made sense to me. They were definitely a very young couple with a young couple's mistakes.
The climbing the tower scene felt a little overdone to me. And Layla and her husband felt too old to me to make their mistakes. But Layla s speech to the duke redeemed her.

Thanks!

I was able to get three of her books electronically Janga so maybe the others will come out. On a related note, would you be kind enough to tell me where did Janice Kay Johnson publish her self-pub stuff?

Janga got me interested in Fay Robinson. Really enjoying Mr and Mrs Wrong.

I have no idea.