Something Reckless (Avon Red) | Jess Michaels | Five Blue Ribbons from Romance Junkies!

Something Reckless (Avon Red) | Jess Michaels | Excellent - could not put it down!

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Something Reckless...

	Something Reckless (Avon Red) Jess Michaels Avon Red, 2008 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Prim, headstrong, and beautiful Penelope is determined to expose the licentious affairs of the ton's randiest rakes. Now one of their powerful number?the unrepentant libertine Jeremy Vaughn, Duke of Kilgrath?has been selected to put an end to the prudish lady's interference. Jeremy's plan is devilishly clever: He will join Penelope's war against immorality, fighting passionately by her side, all the while showering her with anonymous erotic missives designed to titillate even the coldest, most unwilling maid. He will break down her defenses and inflame her repressed desires by escorting her (in the interests of their "noble campaign") to London's most notorious pleasure palaces. And he will visit her boudoir?masked?during the night to school her in the deliciously sinful arts she wishes to abolish. Then he will expose her hypocrisy to the world.

But the handsome rogue's scheme is doomed to go awry, even as the lovely Penelope sheds her every inhibition and freely gives in to his every whim. For in this sensuous game of hearts, it's the seducer who becomes seduced . . .

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Five Blue Ribbons from Romance Junkies!

Widow Penelope Norman must be stopped - that is the topic of conversation Jeremy, the Duke of Kilgrath, and his friends are having over drinks and cigars at their club. It seems that Lady Norman has interfered once too often in the lives of the `Nevers' and they want her stopped. Jeremy is lucky enough to draw the shortest matchstick, so it is up to him to silence Penelope. His plan? Seduce her with letters and illicit meetings in order to make her see exactly what she is missing by her crusade. How? By pretending to agree with her campaign to make the men of society faithful to their wives. Does it work? More than he ever thought possible.

Penelope Norman never wanted the job which she has been given. Her outspokenness has gotten her into trouble once too often and before she realizes it, she is given the title leading actress in a battle between the token wives of London's society. All it took was one innocent observation and the ball began rolling so fast that before she was able to breathe, Penelope was being held responsible for the newfound determination of forgotten wives and their hatred of the men who cuckold them. When the Duke of Kilgrath comes to her praising her work and offering to help her in her supposed campaign, Penelope is at once disbelieving as well as smitten. Why would someone as immoral as Jeremy Vaughn want to help her? She discovers exactly how he wants to help when he takes her to places women of society are never allowed. Admittedly, she is spellbound by the lack of dictates and the utter sensuality of these places. So much so that when the letters begin arriving from an unknown but highly eloquent admirer, Penelope can't help but follow her heart.

I was lucky enough to meet Penelope in Jess Michael's prior release, Everything Forbidden. I must admit that Penelope was not one of my favorite characters and I was somewhat dismayed to find out that SOMETHING RECKLESS was Penelope's story. I was genuinely afraid that I would not be able to like her as a heroine. Eight hours later I can say without a shadow of a doubt that Penelope Norman was completely and miserably misunderstood. Having finished SOMETHING RECKLESS, I see exactly where she was coming from and why she did the things that she did. In fact, I honestly adored her in this novel and loved how she handled herself. She never expected to have sensuality in her life after the death of her older husband. She was willing to be seduced and willing to be reckless, something that few society women were able to do. Then there was Jeremy Vaughn. He was a man after my own heart simply because of the way he dealt with Penelope. He wanted to hate her for her supposed influence on the women of the ton. He wanted to make her pay for the marriage troubles being experienced by the men in his club. He really and truly desired her and that is what stood out first and foremost. It was like he was on the edge of a cliff and just needed one slight push to fall in order to admit his love for Penelope. I am so glad he fell.

SOMETHING RECKLESS is simply stunning. I savored every word and action in this phenomenal romance. Jess Michaels has woven a historical tale full of emotions and complex characterizations. I highly recommend it!
***Natasha Smith for Romance Junkies***

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Excellent - could not put it down!

Here is the premise of the this novel Jeremy Vaughn, Duke of Kilgrath friends are tired of Penelope Norman telling wives that the 'men of TON' should give up their mistress. Penelope feels that why can't the wives be everything for their husband so they don't look elsewhere. Jeremy friends decide that she must be stopped and he get the short straw and decides to seduce her and then she will be a fraud. As with all good romance novels nothing goes as planned.

If you enjoy this author I would also suggest; Something Reckless (Avon Red), Everything Forbidden(Avon Red) and A Red Hot Valentine's Day Available due out 1/6/09. This author also writes under another name Jenna Petersen;From London With Love] (Lady Spies Book 1),[[ASIN:0061138088 Desire Never Dies(Lady Spies Book 2),Seduction Is Forever(Lady Spies Book 3) ,Scandalous and Lessons From a Courtesan, Her Notorious Viscount due out April 2009.

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entertaining Regency romance

In 1819 the "Upper Ten Thousand" male aristocracy members are irate that the Widow Penelope Norman has challenged them for their sensual excesses; she was sick of her late spouse's philandering and assumers other women detest their husbands' unfaithfulness. The Upper Ten Thousand choose a duke wastrel Jeremy Vaughn to end Penelope's campaign.

Although he prefers to stay out of the mess, the challenge to his pride is too great from friends he has known seemingly forever; so Jeremy agrees to end the reign of terror. He figures the easiest means to achieve success is seduce and blackmail Penelope into silence. In daylight Jeremy becomes a friend of Penelope; at night he sneaks into her bedroom wearing a mask. He accomplishes his mission, but feels like he lost the war as he has fallen in love with passionate prude.

The changing relationship between Jeremy and Penelope make for an entertaining Regency romance in which EVERYTHING FORBIDDEN becomes SOMETHING RECKLESS but worth pursuing. The lead couple makes this a fine read as he starts as a cad and she as a crusading prude; over time respect and ultimately love flourishes. However, she loathes the overindulgences of the Upper Ten Thousand at the cost of women and children while he is a card carrying member. Fans will enjoy this fine tale of just who seduced whom.

Harriet Klausner

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Good Second Book in the Series

I really liked this second part of the series. Once again Jess Michaels really brings the characters alive. While I did not like Pen at all as much as I liked Miranda, and thought the story was weaker than Something Forbidden, I still thoroughly enjoyed the story. I hope there will be another in the series that will cover the youngest sister, and show us more of the characters from the first two books, especially Ethan and Miranda.

3 stars at best...

I wasn't aware that this was part 2 in a series by the author. However, it became clear upon reading it that there was a back story that I was not fully aware of, and one of my complaints is that the main characters did not feel as it they had been fully developed.

In the beginning of the book, I found it difficult to empathise with the female protagonist, Penelope. She was largely ostracised after gaining a reputation for being rather puritanical. I couldn't understand why instead of clarifying the misunderstanding, she decided to publicly embrace a point of view that privately she wasn't sure she entirely endorsed. I bought the book thinking it it would be a battle of the wills between the opinionated high-minded maiden and the debauched but charming rake. What I got was something entirely different, mostly because Penelope was too weak-minded to engage in a battle of any sort. She played the victim to perfection and spent the latter half of the novel crying buckets, with every other character asking some version of "Penelope, are you well?" or "Penelope, I am worried about you." Without spoiling the details, suffice it to say that I could not enjoy any of the romantic scenes because I just felt that she was foolish and hypocritical.

Jeremy's character was fairly inconsistent. In the beginning he agrees to this scheme to expose Penelope as a fraud because he was genuinely bored, restless and detached from his friends and family, and was eager to try something novel. It was therefore odd that he continued with the deception even after he started caring for Penelope and repeatedly pointed out how he would have to sacrifice his friends for Penelope, when he had never been shown to confide in them or spending time with them.

I really hope the other novels by this author are better.

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