bed in the original edition published by the American Avon Books (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers). Romance Writers of America Rita Award, Best Short Historical Romance.
They Call Him many names But Angelic isn't one of Them ... Sebastian Ballister , the notorious Marquess of Dain, is big, bad, and dangerous to know. No respectable woman would have anything to do with the “Bane and Blight of the Ballisters”--and he wants nothing to do with respectable women. He’s determined to continue doing what he does best--sin and sin again--and all that’s going swimmingly, thank you...until the day a shop door opens and she walks in.
She’s too intelligent to fall for the worst man in the world... Jessica Trent is a determined young woman, and she’s going to drag her imbecile brother off the road to ruin, no matter what it takes. If saving him - and with HIM, her family and future - means taking on the Devil Himself, she will not back down. The trouble is, the devil in question is so shockingly irresistible, and the person who needs the Most saving is - herself!
In Italy, the novel was published it Novels Mondadori with the title of "Lord of Scoundrels."
Warning: spoilers.
Read Loretta Chase original is a fascinating experience. His is a language rich and refined, which supports a sparkling writing and a mastery of the medium probably unsurpassed in the genre in question.
Loretta Chase, with this romance, hits all the targets: a good story and fun, two sensational players, a story that goes through the tradition of historical romance, dressed in a modern light and extremely bright. Lord of Scoundrels is a particularly inspired one of those creations that are cited for example, and indicated as a touchstone of the five-star romances. It 's the "perfect romance" , according to many and I first read it, I had my curiosity and expectations.
What is certain is that I loved it from beginning to end.
A pearl in the pearl is the prologue, through which it describes with irony the circumstances of childhood and early youth of Guy de Ath Ballister Leslie Sebastian, Marquess of Dain.
Sebastian's father had lost his first wife and children all because of typhus and had remarried the seventeen year old Lucy Nightingale, a noble Florentine family. Lucy was a beauty with a strong and dark, which was reflected in a sensitive temperament, in stark contrast with the character of the most rigid and austere old husband. When the young woman fled with her lover, the Marquis had bestowed on the little Sebastian all the resentment for the shame she had suffered.
coldness, neglect, pain and despair are terrible feelings against which Sebastian had to struggle for a lifetime. For they are accompanied by unpleasant perceptions about their body, widely regarded as clumsy and almost deformed from that important aquiline nose inherited from his maternal family. At Eton, Sebastian had learned to fight the most ruthless bullying to emerge and recover, and dismissed with ridicule and contempt, becoming a man with a strong and indomitable personality. Intelligent, bright, big and muscular as he was, the future of the fourth Marquess of Dain had begun to arouse awe and respect, and somehow it looks shadowy and vaguely evil had created an aura of semi-legendary Lord Lucifer.
's charisma and mischievous romance from impudent rascal who embodies the spirit of a vulnerable child is rejected and only the explosive mixture that ignites the mind and the senses of the ineffable Jessica Trent.
The Twilight zitellaggine, but only by choice, Miss Trent is lovely, supple and vibrant, in body and mind. Contrary to his brother, Bertram, whom nature has not allowed a large number of gray cells, and that is sending the already poor air Finance Baronet inherited from his father. Jessica must save the young from ruin and is convinced that the only way is to tear that Lord Dain exerts influence on him. Bertram is subjugated by the magnetism of the Marquis, who, on the other hand, if he would stand gladly away.
So Jessica left for Paris (the place of the first part of the novel), determined to bring home his brother, but inevitably collides with the cumbersome and Sebastian for both is the beginning of a new life.
Loretta Chase is magnificent in portraying the mental and physical chemistry that pervades irresistible wave as the two protagonists of the novel.
Jessica strong and unpredictable, does not hide his attraction to Dain when it becomes an undeniable fact and is not ashamed to admire the powerful physique and manly, and with your whole self. Not a fragile girl, but a woman who for the first time in her life test drives for the unexplored and who knows what he wants.
Sebastian no longer has released the tears that a child had torn inside and did not think to prompt amorous feelings in anyone, let alone in a creature so perfect in his eyes as Jessica Trent. His defenses appearance are the same as ever, but putting them into practice with this girl is another matter entirely. Especially if the girl in question unleashes weapons for unexpected move the maze of emotions that Dain has shielded behind his mask mocking. Lord Beelzebub is one of the names by which causes and Jessica Sebastian song. He, who is used to incinerate the onlookers with its presence, is crowded out and, slowly, slowly, gives hope that the heat from dimostratogli Jessica is real and disinterested. As long as she is indispensable.
wonderful and memorable scene that takes place on the highlands of Dartmoor, where Jessica Sebastian forced to confront his past harshness of much more rugged and treacherous rocks of granite lashed by the storm raging about them:
... "And I should not distress you now, if I were not obliged to do something that you might never forgive".
He swallowed nausea and pride in one gulp. "Jess, the only unforgivable thing you can do is leave me," he said. "Se mi lasci mi uccido. If you leave me, I'll kill myself".
"Don't be ridiculous," she said. "I should never leave you. Really, Dain, I cannot think where you get such addled ideas." ...
(dal capitolo 17)
Come in diversi altri momenti della storia, Sebastian is emotionally shaken when it is expressed in Italian, the language of his mother.
few small grammatical imprecision in the use of our language I recognized, but given some absurd translations in which I stumbled upon one of the novels from newsstands, Loretta Chase, which is promoted in Italian, as far as I'm concerned.
Chapeau, Mrs. Chase!
*****
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