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| Original Title: | The Devil to Pay |
| ISBN: | 0743470044 (ISBN13: 9780743470049) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | MacLachlan Family & Friends #1 |
| Characters: | Aleric Hilliard, the Marquess of Devellyn, Sidonie Saint-Godard, George Kemble, Alasdair MacLachlan |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | RITA Award by Romance Writers of America for Best Long Historical Romance (2006) |
Liz Carlyle
Paperback | Pages: 373 pages Rating: 3.86 | 1831 Users | 95 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Devil to Pay (MacLachlan Family & Friends #1) |
| Author | : | Liz Carlyle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 373 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2005 by Pocket Star (first published December 28th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Historical Romance. Historical. Regency. Fiction |
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Liz Carlyle, bestselling author of The Devil You Know and A Deal With the Devil, continues her devilish streak with this sensual regency romance.By day, Sidonie Saint-Godard is a quietly elegant young widow who teaches deportment to the unpolished daughters of London's nouveau riche. By night, she is someone altogether different.
The notorious Black Angel—so called for her lusciously located angel tattoo—ruthlessly takes from powerful men who exploit, and gives to those who suffer at their hands. Always in disguise, she has eluded capture and her identity remains a mystery.
The Marquess of Devellyn, one of the least noble noblemen in town, uses and discards women as he pleases. But when the Black Angel entices him into her bed, ties him up, and pilfers his most valued possession, she may have gone too far. This time, Devellyn tells her, she'll have the devil to pay. And he definitely means to collect.
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3.5 starsStarted out wonderful and so intriguing! However the middle dragged on and I began to lose interest. The fact that the heroines secret identity was causing conflict with the hero and the heroine including feelings of jealousy was just weird. And I didnt love the way the ending pulled it together. Rather fizzled out.Great easy read with interesting characters...not the usual heiress and duke-to-be. Good conversation. I'm looking forward to reading more in this series.
Altogether fantastic! Liz Carlyle certainly had her mojo working when she wrote this one. Charming, sexy, laugh-out-loud funny in places, great dialogue, great scene-setting, great characters. The hero Devellyn is Carlyle's answer to Lord of Scoundrels, and he is to die for! Sidonie is over-the-top wonderful, and her brother George Kemble, who appears in practically all of Carlyle's books, is one of the main characters in this one - not just as a brilliant valet, antiques dealer and "fixer", but
CW: NSFW, language, mild dubious consentI absolutely loved this book. Sidonie is clever and an admirable heroine, and Devellyn is so not-charming, he almost becomes it. Carlyle proves, over and over again, why she is my favorite author!
So, I have had this book for a year, and I have picked it up, but I never read it, and I remember why now. I always read the reviews and realized that they were second cousins, and that never sat well with me. About 3/4 of the way, you get that little tidbit, and I started to skip because, normally, the story will always show some type of affair or something to erase the cousin theory, but this book never did. I liked the Black Angel portion, but the cousin thing ruined it for me.
I loved the Black Angel & pretty much all the characters. One thing that disturbed me is that this is the SECOND book I've read in the past month in which the couple are COUSINS - fucking each other and then getting married....So now I want to research and look into how common this is...So inbreeding isn't frowned upon in England?? Anyway I liked the theme of helping others and particularly helping women who have been mistreated or feel trapped into a life of prostitution.
Devellyn is one of the more interesting historical heroes I've come across. He's got this brutal/ruthless streak in him but somehow he's also the guy who lets half a dozen mistresses just run roughshod over his life while he barely bats an eye.
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