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This is the perfect day to give thanks and without further ado here is what I am most thankful for about romance:
- Billionaires. Like Harlequin, I am thankful for billionaire heroes. Can you imagine an arrogant, brooding, and handsome Harlequin man not being the CEO of his own company? The horror! Shudders. Category romance would not be the same without them!
- Vampires. I love vampires in my romance. I have loved them since I picked up Guilty Pleasures
, my first Anita Blake Vampire Hunter book, and the loving hasn’t stopped. Thank you Joss Whedon for making Buffy The Vampire Slayer
and giving us Angel
! To Stephenie Meyer also, because now I have Angel and Jean-Claude and Edward Cullen.
- Dukes. Historical romance, especially Regency romance, would languish without these handsome brutes. They do plenty of things real dukes did not like become spies for England on a regular basis, but that’s what make them so sexy. Don’t we all want to seduce a duke?
- Blind leads. I love blind leads and I’m thankful for each and every romance book out there that has one and for every author that wrote one! You make my day every time I find a novel with this character flaw. There are never too many!
- Authors. I am extremely thankful to romance authors. Without you, my bookshelves would be empty and my time filled doing something else other than reading, and as reading is my favorite thing to do that would be very sad indeed.
- Publishers and Publicists. Without you I would not have heard of, found, or read many of the wonderful books you sent to share with me. Thank you for that and thank you for your generosity with my readers!
- Bloggers. To my fellow romance bloggers, you are all wonderful and extremely talented, kind, and entertaining! I love reading your blogs and I would miss you if any of you decided to quit blogging.
- Readers. To each and every reader of my blog, I am thankful for you too! I am so happy to have you here and enjoy reading all of the comments you leave. I hope to continue to earn your trust and friendship in the months and years to come.
What about romance are you thankful for?
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Guilty Pleasures by Laura Lee Guhrke is the tale of Lady Viola's brother and his duchess-to-be. Technically Guilty Pleasures is a prequel to The Marriage Bed where Viola and her husband John patch up their estranged marriage. On a whole this novel was much better than the Marriage Bed, but because I read the Marriage Bed first I was biased against this book from the beginning. Now before I started reading, I had no idea of Guilty Pleasures relation to the other novel, the backs of the novels do not give very much information. I picked both of them up in the store because their covers were wonderfully designed and drew me to them. It's too bad really.
So why am I prejudice against the book from the beginning? Daphne, happily married by the time Marriage Bed takes place, tells Viola some very negative things about her character and how it's possible that Viola was nearly wholly responsible for the estrangement between John and herself. Daphne is on John's side because she was poor and in desperate straights herself once. Honestly, I never really picked up on that at all in Guilty Pleasures. The novel started with Daphne having already secured a position and working five months at Tremore Hall under Anthony. If I don't like a heroine the novel goes downhill fast for me. I didn't like Daphne in Marriage Bed and I saw no reason to like her now.
It's too bad because I always liked Anthony from both MB and GP. He's an antiquarian and loves his history, hates evicting tenets and always has some way to allow them to stay while giving them self-worth, doesn't abuse his power over his female servants and employees, and champions his sister. He is hero worthy without a doubt. Of course his noble actions avoiding thinking of his female workers cause all the havoc in this story.
Daphne loved to spy on Anthony when he was shirtless and working outdoors excavating. Who wouldn't? When Viola comes to call on her brother, Daphne becomes Viola's number one choice for her brother to marry and cleverly sets them up. Daphne overhears a conversation between the siblings where Anthony describes her as a stick bug on a twig, a machine, and unlikely to marry. Just goes to show him later that he never should have opened his mouth, doesn't it? Having heard, Daphne decides to accept Viola's offer to help bring her out into society which makes Anthony panic as he'll be losing his best employee on the dig.
He devises ways to make her stay; she makes him fall in love with her. Overall a cute tale, but one I couldn't really get into because of Daphne.
Rating: 2.5 Stars.
Originally posted 2008-10-15 05:06:38. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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