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| Original Title: | Devil's Cub |
| ISBN: | 0099465833 (ISBN13: 9780099465836) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Alastair-Audley Tetralogy #2 |
| Characters: | Mary Challoner, Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal |
| Literary Awards: | Romance Readers Anonymous (RRA) Award (1995) |
Georgette Heyer
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 4.21 | 12911 Users | 991 Reviews
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| Title | : | Devil's Cub (Alastair-Audley Tetralogy #2) |
| Author | : | Georgette Heyer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2004 by Arrow (first published 1932) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. Historical Romance. Regency. Fiction. Regency Romance |
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Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal and fiery son of the notorious Duke of Avon, has established a rakish reputation that rivals his father's, living a life of excess and indulgence. He is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe alike as the "Devil's Cub." Yet as the handsome and wealthy heir to a Dukedom, he is considered a good prospect on the marriage market. Vidal currently has his eye on the young, lovely, and unintelligent Sophia Challoner, and Sophia's greedy mother is more than happy to encourage his dubious attentions. Banished to the Continent after wounding his opponent in a duel, Vidal decides to abduct the silly aristocrat bent on seducing him into marriage and make her his mistress instead. In his rush, however, he seems to have taken the wrong woman? Intelligent, practical Mary Challoner knew wicked Vidal, wouldn't marry her sister, despite her mother's matchmaking schemes. So Mary coolly prepared to protect her naive sister by deceiving Vidal. Substituting herself for her young sister, she certainly hadn't expected the nobleman to kidnap and take her to France. She had little notion he would grimly hold her to her part of the bargain. Now he had left her, and she was alone, a stranger in a strange land, prey to the intrigues of glittering, heartless, 18th century Paris. Only one person could rescue her--the Marquis himself. But how could she ever trust this man? How could she even hope to overcome the contempt in which he held her? And how could even the sudden flowering of her love ever bridge the terrible gap between them?Rating Appertaining To Books Devil's Cub (Alastair-Audley Tetralogy #2)
Ratings: 4.21 From 12911 Users | 991 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books Devil's Cub (Alastair-Audley Tetralogy #2)
Within two pages of meeting Mary she makes fun of both her mother and her suitor, and I knew right away I was going to like this girl. After telling her suitor that the color he is wearing, puce, does not become him, he continues nevertheless to flatter her with favorable comparisons to her sister:"In my eyes," declared Joshua, "you are the prettier."Miss Challoner seemed to consider this. "Yes?" she said interestedly. "But then, you chose puce." She shook her head, and it was apparent she set2019STILL IN LOVVEEEEEEE2018Have you ever watched someone's favorite movie with them, and they just sit there quoting along? That is the internal dialogue that goes through my head when I read this one. I think I know every look and word by heart. Then I re-read it and find a hidden pause, a different context to the quote I thought I knew, a lost smile. My heart melts. I'm in love all over again.
Update: I found it a LOT funnier on second reading! I laughed from the beginning with "What have you done with the corpse, my boy?" "Done with it? WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH A CORPSE?!?!?!?!!!" to the end "Give Sophia a glass!! We're drinking your health!" "IT'S MARY!!!"**Contains spoilers and strong language** " 'They're all mad, every one of 'em,'" That's what I thought at about 1/3 of the book, and then I decided to view this story as just a fun, silly screw-ball comedy.And....I loved it. When I
Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest🎃 Read for the Unapologetic Romance Readers Halloween 2017 Reading Challenge for the category of: a romance written by an author who is dead 🎃There might not be any sex in Georgette Heyer regency romances, but man that woman can pack more drama into these puppies than Julia Quinn at her most malicious. DEVIL'S CUB is downright soap opera-ish in terms of scope and characterization.The plot is basically this - hold onto your bonnets:
This is laugh-out-loud, rollicking fun, a farce.I actually liked this more than Avon and Leonie's story, These Old Shades. Vidal, their son, is an apple off the old tree, which is comeuppance, but of course with parental hypocrisy becomes "unacceptable". La!"You must think me witless, my dear boy. I am perfectly aware that you would like to throw my extremely reprehensible past in my teeth.""I confess, sir, I find your homily a little ironic." The extremes of sense and sensibility, if you will.
Reread:I'm not going to change my rating but I don't think I loved this as much the second time around. I think in the last five years I've become more sensitive to abusive/controlling behaviors and Vidal had too many qualities that now are red flags to me. Also (and maybe this is because I've been reading a lot of slow burn romances lately), the love felt a little insta to me. I think what I liked about this the first time (so soon after reading These Old Shades), was the presence of so much of
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