Just One Kiss Away (Dukes, Rakes \u0026 Rogues, Oh My! Book 2) By Jill Barnett
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Yet with rare exception I find myself disappointed These collections should represent the best a writer can offer because it is frequently the only introduction a writer will have to new readers The first and last entries in a collection should be the best the first makes a reader want to read and the last keeps the anthology in mind for longer than it takes to close an electronic reader That is not the case here This is a continuation of books arranged alphabetically in a series of anthologies that began with From Rakes to Riches. Just one kiss awayform I rated this anthology 2 stars overall I got this rating by adding the individual ratings of all books and dividing by 8 the number of books in the collection The sum.
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New York Times Bestselling Author Jill Barnett is master storyteller known for her beautifully written love stories rich with humor emotion and poignancy She is the winner of Lifetime Achievement Awards for Love and Laughter and Historical Romance and is a six time Romance Writers of America RITA nominee and winner of both a Persie Award for Literature and a Waldenbooks Award Her books have been named Best of the Year by Dallas Morning News Detroit Free Press and Kirkus Review and she was the first historical romance author to ever receive a starred review from Publishers Weekly She stands alongside Judith McNaught as one of only two authors to ever receive a six star review from Affaire de Coeur Magazine and her work has been publis New York Times Bestselling Author Jill Barnett is master storyteller known for her beautifully written love stories rich with humor emotion and poignancy She is the winner of Lifetime Achievement Awards for Love and Laughter and Historical Romance and is a six time Romance Writers of America RITA nominee and winner of both a Persie Award for Literature and a Waldenbooks Award Her books have been named Best of the Year by Dallas Morning News Detroit Free Press and Kirkus Review and she was the first historical romance author to ever receive a starred review from Publishers Weekly She stands alongside Judith McNaught as one of only two authors to ever receive a six star review from Affaire de Coeur Magazine and her work has been published in 23 languages and appeared on numerous bestseller lists She lives in the PNW with her family site_link From the glittering ballrooms of England to the English countryside the promise of true love echoes down the ages in this sizzling collection of eight full length Regency romances from eight of today s New York Times and USA Today s bestselling authors From Jill Dreaming From Rita The Devil s Due From Susan Mistress Mischief From Eileen Three Times a Lady From Cara To Sin With a Scoundrel From Danelle Wicked at Heart From Amanda Delighting the Duke and From Holly The Heart s Companion That s EIGHT full length beloved romances in one collection available for a limited time Please note that these stories were previously published by each individual author Just One Kiss Away Dukes Rakes u0026 Rogues Oh My Book 2 I love the idea of an anthology 20. Just one kiss awayhat 5 starsThis is a silly book that attempts to mix magic slapstick comedy and true love it falls short of its mark Miss Leticia Olive Hornsby Letty is our childish heroine who never grew up She is na ve silly immature and lives in her own world of dreams where everything is wonderful She is also clumsy taken to a new level of ineptitude. Just one kiss awayfield I felt horribly embarrassed for Letty in the Prologue which was painful to read She was the epitome of Poor Petunia in the potato patch The premise was unbelievable and that set the wrong tone from the beginning Letty was a seventeen year old left on her own unchaperoned abandoned by an aunt who wanted to catch up on gossip with friends at the first ball of the Season It s 1813 and this would not have happened in Society People avoid her and we soon find out why she is a walking disaster Odd things happen in her presence Whether she s stumbling over her hem or smacking people over the head or starting fires and holy cow does she ever start fires or firing weapons accidentally hmmm disaster strikes. Just one kiss awayfield Initially this is amusing and then it becomes slapstick and then cruel What it isn t is funny Enter the hero Richard Lennox the Earl of Downe He is an anti hero a drunkard wastrel and profligate philanderer of the first order He s frankly terrible And that s the story the adventures of the child and the wastrel I found little amusing in this tale But there is a great deal of cruel behavior and hatred that spills over into the lives of all involved At the end of the story there is some sort of magic introduced with no lead in no hint of expectation it suddenly appears and disappears without notice It is out of place and without context IMHO Voltaire did the optimistic na vet much better in Candide This barely earned its 1. Just one kiss awaybet The Devil s Due by Rita Boucher Published 08 23 2021Desire in Disguise Book 4 of 6 Rated 4 starsThis story has a strong plot that involves equally strong characters Kate and her silent daughter are on the run from her deceased husband s family who want her and her daughter for their inherited wealth She stays a few steps ahead of them and ends up encamped in Eilean Kirk Castle home to the clan MacLean all of whom are dead She poses as the laird s widow and lives in the ruins barely subsisting but alive and free Duncan the MacLean is not dead after all and returns from war to find her usurping his home They clash and remain adversaries through much of the tale their antagonistic relationship eventually becoming friendship and ultimately love The villain Lord Vesey is an evil man with powerful friends He appears only in flashbacks but his existence causes Kate to panic. Just one kiss awayg lyrics Welcome humor permeates the story For instance when Kate is talking to her companion and maid Daisy about Kate s blue blood Kate observes Yes I come of good blood and so for that matter does black pudding There are errors Punctuation is problematic particularly periods and commas Typos pause a reader and there are scenes that were probably edited incompletely for example Duncan is pulling the cork out of a bottle and draining it but on a previous page the bottle had already been emptied. Lyrics just a kiss away 0 starsMistress Mischief by Susan Carroll Published 03 14 2023Once Upon a Time in Regency England Book 3 of 6 Rated 4 starsLeon August Barry the Viscount Raincliffe is a villain He tosses his father s second wife and our heroine Lady Frederica Freddie Eleanor Barry out of her home and into the cold without a scintilla of remorse Nor does he offer a carriage ride for her trip to the village She is joined by two servants who accompany her to London where she lives on the edge of debt existing on credit attached to her dowager title. Just one kiss awayie lyrics The book is about her life in London where she meets the Honorable Mr Maxmillian Warfield our hero He is a man of exacting standards and routines Freddie is a woman whose life is in shambles Max finds Freddie stealing from the hostess at a Society ball and is outraged until he becomes astonished that she is not pilfering silver but rather food It s how the dowager feeds her household They are joined by Freddie s grandson St John Bartholomy Barry who has made his escape from a boarding school where he was sent to be out of the way by his father the villainous Viscount Raincliffe. Just one kiss awayjazz The story is a good one and the characters are interesting and appealing uniquely themselves They do not blend together but each takes on their own persona It is an enjoyable read. Just one kiss awayham 5 starsPhillipa Pip Ellen Alexandra Trentham Knight is our heroine who has a major crush on Beau Drummond our hero She is overly dramatic and in love with a man who cannot stand her Naturally they marry This theme of unrequited love is similar to the first book in this anthology Dreaming. Just one kiss yeonbin fanfiction The plot is unnecessarily complicated Complexity is fine even encouraged in a well plotted story but complications are full of writer created obstacles that are themselves excessive to a good plot Both the hero and heroine are less than heroic Pip is dogged in her pursuit of Drummond and he exhibits cowardice in the face of Pip s infatuation. Just one kiss awaykart There is intrigue in a plot against the Crown and no one seems to be who they say they are Both main characters get bogged down in their twisted feelings of guilt unworthiness and shame which seem misplaced Beau s brother we are told has died in battle and Beau blames Pip for his brother s joining the army and himself for buying his brother s commission He cannot get over this His attitude plays against his belief that Pip would be better off without him and his perspective is not noble just wearying The writer often tells us that Beau does not have the courage to look Pip in the eye and he is afraid of her He runs away over and over again. Just one kiss awaykid I was disappointed in the story The writer kept Beau under a cloud of cravenness He was foolish and did not change until the very end when it was too late at least for this reader Pip was bright but should have kicked Beau to the side rather than keep on taking his relentless insulting behavior in stride I rated this story 1. Just one kiss yeonbin fanfiction To Sin with a Scoundrel by Cara Elliott Published 11 10 2022The Circle of Sin Book 1 of 3 Rated 3 starsThis is a well plotted tale of sin selfishness and redemption Lady Ciara Sheffield is a scientist who has been accused of killing her husband with poison a charge brought against her by her husband s family who want what she has inherited Lucas Bingham the Earl of Hadley is the profligate rake who lives to do whatever catches his fancy She is studious and serious he is ruled by his wants and desires Somehow the two of them become friends then lovers They are an interesting couple. Just one kiss awaye lyrics This is the first of three books in the Circle of Sin series Since the men in the books are all outrageous rakes it would be logical to presume that the circle refers to these rogues However it refers to Ciara and her friends who are all ladies with a scientific bent They are the Circle of Scientific Sibyls abbreviated to the Circle of Sin In Greek mythology the Sibyls were prophetesses or witches who foretold the future It s a fitting sobriquet There is a huge huge problem with the story and that s the overwhelming number of errors in the book Here are a few examples A pleural noun form is used incorrectly the five females members were serious scholars This should read five female members A word is repeated unnecessarily you simply must tell us about all about that magnificent beast I think the first about is superfluous and this should read tell us all about that magnificent beast An incorrect word is used or perhaps it s a typo I ve suffered not lasting ill effects This should read I ve suffered no lasting ill effects An incorrect word is used or another typo then turned to put in back in its place This should read to put it back in its place A word is repeated unnecessarily he suddenly he excused himself This could be corrected in than one way for instance he suddenly excused himself However I d also get rid of the adverb A preposition is missing I shall hand you off my friend Woodbridge and a comma is missing This should read I shall hand you off to my friend Woodbridge The definite article is missing how he hated feeling of being constricted This should be how he hated the feeling An indefinite article is missing his wheedling request for loan That should read request for a loan Another indefinite article is missing with polite bow This should be with a polite bow This is a small sampling of myriad problems that interrupt the flow of the story One or two errors are expected these days but here errors are so numerous that they bring the reader out of the story and distract from the well conceived plot I rated this story 3. Just one kiss awayjam Wicked at Heart by Danelle Harmon Published 03 10 2020Officers and Gentlemen Book 3 of 6 Rated 0 starsThis book ranges from the ridiculous to the horrible Character arcs are desirable it does a reader good to watch a character grow and change for the better however this book takes it too too far The depravity of the hero is insurmountable Of course he changes and there is an HEA two requirements of a good romantic novel but the change is unbelievable and the HEA unearned outside of the melodrama the writer foists on her characters. Just one kiss awayfield The one who seems the most wicked at heart is the writer who goes too deep into the heart of darkness Joseph Conrad did it better and the heavy handed hero cannot escape The turnaround in the final chapters does not make sense given the intense hatred calculated animosity depraved indifference the hero is filled with He never takes responsibility for his own culpability in those actions that have caused him so much pain He is not at fault for an insane mother nor disinterested father nor the abuse he suffered at their hands However he was a willing participant in sex with an Oxford dean s niece for which he was expelled And he allowed his temper to get the best of him when he forced a duel with an admiral s son and killed him This was an event for which he held some responsibility but our intrepid hero blames everything and everyone else for his misfortunes. Just one kiss yeonbin fanfiction But what infuriates me most is Ms Harmon using sexual assault bordering on rape to further her idea of romance There is nothing romantic about rape When a rough controlling weaponized kiss is forced on the heroine Ms Harmon visualizes this heroine focusing on that powerful kiss No And No again During a sexual assault the victim is not swooning at a kiss they are fighting back in fear This is not rough foreplay or sex between consenting adults It s a powerful male exerting pain and fear onto a female victim What on earth is the writer thinking I rated this book 0 stars because of the unnecessary depravity that permeates the story The plight of prisoners of war at the hands of the British is something worth considering and using as an example of what must never happen again However it takes a back seat to the prince of darkness degeneracy and wickedness I am at a loss to understand first how this book can be considered a romance and second how it ever received 5 star ratings given the subject matter. Just one kiss awayie lyrics 5 starsAlexander Kenton comes home from the Peninsula Wars to become the new Duke of Wayland after his brother died and left the estate destitute and riddled with debt from his gambling and debauchery His younger sister has been left to run the estate learning from the tenants Mrs Georgina Georgie Beaumont a three time widow is a famous artist and fabulously wealthy The problem is evident within the first three chapters Alex is prideful and determined to bring the properties back to life Georgie is cautious of men who want her for her wealth It s obvious that they will run aground and they surely do over money and the fact that she has it and he does not. Just one kiss awaybook There is an undeveloped subplot Two of Alex s friends from school are I guess meant to be comic relief but aren t funny They make a bet about when Alex will ask La Beaumont to marry him It was a bet the duke didn t want Georgie to know about and he chastises his friends Eventually she does hear about it from the very men who made the bet They all have a fine laugh It left me wondering what that was all about it served no purpose did not move the plot forward did not delve into characters. Just one kiss awayaway There is no money left in the duke s coffers At his estate fields lay fallow for lack of seed the ducal home is in disrepair with a leaky roof and rooms emptied of furniture One wonders then where does Alex get the money to buy a very large mass of very expensive orchids for Georgie There are a lot of errors too many to list here They include periods that pop into the middle of sentences dashes and dots that appear mid sentence tons of typos that force the reader out of the story the number one being used as a lowercase l ell subject verb disagreement and so on This book is almost too sweet It reads like marzipan tastes The ending is tepid and the money issue feels unresolved because the characters do not appear to have changed There s little chemistry between the main characters just a desire to wed It feels as if the characters are following a To Do list that results in marriage I rated it 2. Just one kiss awayham The Heart s Companion by Holly Newman Published 04 11 2021Flowers Thorns Book 4 of 4 Rated 4 starsThis book started slow it crawled So many characters were introduced in the first chapter by name and little else that a reader needed a scorecard to keep track of them all But it got better as the story progressed I got that this was a treatise on gossip on allowing on dits to overwhelm logic and common sense and about telling the difference between innuendo and information But it wasn t until I read the John Donne quotation in chapter 15 that I realized it was also about the connection we have with one another so that what happens to or is gossiped about one person affects us all. Just one kiss awayd chords The heroine is Miss Jane Grantley a wealthy heiress who is both the subject and purveyor of gossip She believes every piece of gossip she hears the worse it is the she believes it to be true The hero is Vernon Morecaster the fifth Earl of Royce who was the center of a scandal a decade earlier and is still gossiped about and referred to as the Devil s Disciple Both are strong individuals who protect themselves with a fa ade to guard their hearts Royce has just returned from the Continent to his estate which borders that of Jane s uncle Sir Jasper Grantley who has left England to travel with his wife. Just one kiss awaybet There is a wealth of characters all of which play roles that move the plot along no one is superfluous For instance Lady Elsbeth Ainstree is Jane s aunt and companion and her life was interrupted by gossip that condemned the man she loved She rejected him believing gossip rather than him It haunts her. Just one kiss awayall This is a thickly woven plot far too deep to retell here It requires attentive reading and it s worth the time A theme of the book is summed up nicely Gossip is mischievous light and easy to raise but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it it too is a kind of divinity From Works and Days by Hesiod c 700 BCE. Just one kiss awayhouse A second theme of the book deals with how all people are connected as John Donne tells us in No Man is an Island which is where the often quoted ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee comes from What happens to one affects all. Just one kiss awaykick Both themes run through the book and the end is a well earned HEA for than one couple Lessons are learned and the importance of listening to what people have to say but not repeating it as gossip is finally understood It s a well written book that is driven by both the characters and the plot. Just one kiss awayall I rated this book 4 stars It was my favorite in this eight book anthology It s a well spent afternoon of thoughtful and entertaining reflections Plus it is an excellent book with which to end the anthology It leaves a good final impression on the reader Jill Barnett
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