Sebastian, now the intelligent but immoral 3rd Marquess of Dain, meets his match in Miss Jessica Trent, who has arrived in the city to rescue her unintelligent, nearly penniless brother Bertie from Dain's bad influence. Romantic fiction scholars have identified Jessica Trent as a "feminist heroine" with whom the "alpha male hero" has met his match. Dejadme que os recomiende la película The Duchess basada en una historia real en la que se desmitifica mucha de esa sociedad que ensalza la novela que a mí me gusta tanto). I was expecting something along the lines of Anne Stuart's RUTHLESS or Elizabeth Hoyt's DUKE OF SIN. A lot of gossiping, wacky characters, hilarious remarks, indescribably funny critical self-analysis and a lighthearted tone of the whole.

Upon their first meeting he silently observes that Jessica is wearing "a blue overgarment of some sort and one of the hideously overdecorated bonnets currently in fashion".If he does not roar and stomp about like an outraged elephant, you may be certain you are not demanding enough. She explains, "Having Dain be half-Italian fit so many aspects of his story: his background as well as his behavior, which does get operatic at times". A estória parte da sofrida infância do personagem principal, o Marquês Sebastian Dain, passa pela sua adolescência marcada pela rejeição paterna e o bulling dos colegas de colégio e chega na vida adulta, marcada pelos traumas do passado e o comportamento desregrado e muitas vezes violento. Chase instead modeled Jessica after the type of women who lived a few generations previously and who had "a more practical, frank attitude toward sex". Quizás la parte final, en parte, flojea, y sé que muchas lectoras no le perdonaran el personaje que protagoniza ese último cuarto.

No respectable woman would have anything to do with the "Bane and Blight of the Ballisters"—and he wants nothing to do with respectable women. It's yet another 90s romance novel making the awkward transition from bodice ripper to modern historical romance, and it falls into one of those awkward trenches of fail where it has the worst attributes of both. Aquí siempre he pensado que la figura de la abuela me justifica un comportamiento total fuera de situación, pero es que segura estoy de que en aquel tiempo también hubo mujeres que no se conformaron con decir sí a lo que se les dijera. It started off really well - from the first time they met and how she struck him dumb with her repartee! It could've used a little more excitement but then again, the lack of stress was also the reason I enjoyed this so much.She might have developed an excitingly checkered career had her spouse not nagged her into writing fiction.