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Loretta Chase?
Jun. 23rd, 2008 10:17 amI keep seeing reviews for Loretta Chase's Your Scandalous Ways. It seems to be fairly uniformly well-liked. The heroine, Francesca, is a courtesan. Not a fake whore who is actually a virgin, but an actual courtesan, a woman who has sex for money and makes no excuses for it. Which is not a common thing in Romancelandia. So on one hand, I'm interested in reading it.
But on the other hand, Ms. Chase is an author other readers love but who has never really worked for me. Lord of Scoundrels? Eh -- the heroine seemed kind of Mary Sueish to me, and the hero was a jerk pretty much all the way through the book. Miss Wonderful? More eh. Again with the Mary Sue heroine. Mr. Impossible? I liked the heroine, Daphne, but was unimpressed by Rupert, the hero. The next one (Lord Perfect was a DNF, and I couldn't be arsed to even borrow Not Quite A Lady from the library. But I'm trying to decide if I should disregard the ~meh~ and give her one more try.
Opinions, anyone?
But on the other hand, Ms. Chase is an author other readers love but who has never really worked for me. Lord of Scoundrels? Eh -- the heroine seemed kind of Mary Sueish to me, and the hero was a jerk pretty much all the way through the book. Miss Wonderful? More eh. Again with the Mary Sue heroine. Mr. Impossible? I liked the heroine, Daphne, but was unimpressed by Rupert, the hero. The next one (Lord Perfect was a DNF, and I couldn't be arsed to even borrow Not Quite A Lady from the library. But I'm trying to decide if I should disregard the ~meh~ and give her one more try.
Opinions, anyone?
