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dangermousieBecause I really liked the two Suzanne Enoch books I read, I ventured onto a third, London's Perfect Scoundrel (it's a middle part of an extremely loose trilogy of which the other two books were the first and last part).
Normally the set-up (innocent proper young lady and a horrid seducer who decides he wants into her pants but reforms) would make me run for the hills but I really liked the two other books so I gave it a chance. My verdict? I liked it about as much as it is possible for me to like a book with this trope - I enjoyed it but it's not going on a favorites list. I did not feel like throwing it against the wall though and if you know my loathing of such a set-up, this is huge.
Why did I like it as much as I did?
Well, the book was doing the usual thing with hero was being absolutely intolerable, going all "I am going to kick orphans on the street and ravish you and instead of being normal and finding me a nasty scumbag, you, heroine, want to be sexing me up" when the heroine interrupted by having him hit over the head and locking and chaining him in the cellar (which used to be an army dungeon) for a week to teach him some manners and make him change his mind. I couldn't dislike either one of them after this or begrudge make-outs (heroine's reaction to him finally escaping was to go "oh well, let's have sex on the dungeon floor." I was very amused. :) I think heroine had a mild and unacknowlwdged taste for being a domme (especially in light of how much she enjoyed making out with him when he was chained up, precisely because he was chained up). :)
Normally the set-up (innocent proper young lady and a horrid seducer who decides he wants into her pants but reforms) would make me run for the hills but I really liked the two other books so I gave it a chance. My verdict? I liked it about as much as it is possible for me to like a book with this trope - I enjoyed it but it's not going on a favorites list. I did not feel like throwing it against the wall though and if you know my loathing of such a set-up, this is huge.
Why did I like it as much as I did?
Well, the book was doing the usual thing with hero was being absolutely intolerable, going all "I am going to kick orphans on the street and ravish you and instead of being normal and finding me a nasty scumbag, you, heroine, want to be sexing me up" when the heroine interrupted by having him hit over the head and locking and chaining him in the cellar (which used to be an army dungeon) for a week to teach him some manners and make him change his mind. I couldn't dislike either one of them after this or begrudge make-outs (heroine's reaction to him finally escaping was to go "oh well, let's have sex on the dungeon floor." I was very amused. :) I think heroine had a mild and unacknowlwdged taste for being a domme (especially in light of how much she enjoyed making out with him when he was chained up, precisely because he was chained up). :)
