by Amanda Quick
From a magnificent ballroom ablaze with lights to an imposing country house steeped in shadows comes a breathtaking tale of an impetuous miss--and a passion that leads to peril...
At five and twenty, Prudence Merryweather knew very well tht risks a woman took by visiting a gentleman in the dead of night. But bearding the notorious Earl of Angelstone in his den was the only way to stop him from engaging her hot-headed brother in a duel. And that was why she found herself ushered into Sebastian's frobidding presence at three int the morning--and thoroughly kissed before dawn.
She was a country-bred innocent--and an intriguing experience for a man who dwelt more in the shadows than in the sunshine. Yet as her boldness drew Prue into one dangerous episode after another, Sebastian found himself torn between a raging hunger to possess her and a driving need to protect her.
SiNgUrL's Review:
It was an easy read but it was good. Just enough details to read and keep me reading to the end.
I like the relationship between Prudence and Angelstone. How they both handled their work and balanced it with their emotions and everything around them.
Trust and Faith was one of the best things they possessed for each other whoch kept the story on the right track.
Dangerous
Gideon
by Russell Andrews
Gideon is a high-concept political thriller by Russell Andrews (the pen name of a partnership between book editor Peter Gethers and mystery novelist David Handler).
When a promising New York writer named Carl Granville is paid a quarter of a million dollars to produce a novel called Gideon, he thinks it's his lucky break. The book is to be based on the material of an old diary--which Carl is allowed to look at, although certain dates and names have been blacked out. The diary and novel involve a 10-year-old Southern boy who killed his brain-damaged baby brother. Carl, baffled but glad of the huge payoff, gets on with translating the diary into a bestseller. But when the editor who commissioned the book is murdered, and nobody at the publishing house knows anything about the Gideon project, the writer realizes that sinister forces are at large. Just to add to his troubles, Granville is accused of the editor's murder and is forced to go on the run to escape the FBI and an assassin. His only chance for clearing his name is to reveal who wrote the decades-old journal.
Gideon is an invigorating read with a remarkably fresh plot and a highly likable and believable protagonist.
SiNgUrL's Review:
I just borrowed it from a friend of my dad's and finished reading it weeks ago.
I thought it had something to do with religion but I was wrong except for the part there had been an important character of a priest in it. It wasn't a major focus in the story.
It was disappointing. I expected more from the novel. There was something missing in the flow of the story. All of it revolved around a murder committed by a very powerful man and had been hidden for many, many years.
I think the missing part of the story was further description of the murderer. How hard he achieved his place and it was devastating how one hidden secret from his past could ruin his image and everything he achieved for his mother, and with her help, too.
There were so much missing in the book. Too much action and complications but very few explanations.
