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From Publishers Weekly
Garwood fails here to integrate romance and mystery elements as effectively as she did in The Bride. There's too much heavy breathing in the book's first half, too many convoluted political intrigues in the second. The year is 1815. The Marquess of Cainewood, hunting London's slums for the pirate Pagan whom he assumes killed his brother, traps instead a seemingly despairing young woman named Jade, who seeks to hire Caine to commit a murder--her own. Caine offers her protection instead, little suspecting that she is Pagan and her real object is to stay close so that she and her followers can defend him: traitors in the War Office, who tried to slay her brother as well as his, may now be after Caine too. The couple's stormy romance gets off to an instant if ludicrously implausible start that very first night, when Caine wanders into Jade's bedroom and finds her uncovered and completely naked. By the time their respective brothers reappear and the pursuit begins for the renegades, it's much too late for the reader to take any serious interest in the villains or their tiresome schemes.
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Garwood fails here to integrate romance and mystery elements as effectively as she did in The Bride. There's too much heavy breathing in the book's first half, too many convoluted political intrigues in the second. The year is 1815. The Marquess of Cainewood, hunting London's slums for the pirate Pagan whom he assumes killed his brother, traps instead a seemingly despairing young woman named Jade, who seeks to hire Caine to commit a murder--her own. Caine offers her protection instead, little suspecting that she is Pagan and her real object is to stay close so that she and her followers can defend him: traitors in the War Office, who tried to slay her brother as well as his, may now be after Caine too. The couple's stormy romance gets off to an instant if ludicrously implausible start that very first night, when Caine wanders into Jade's bedroom and finds her uncovered and completely naked. By the time their respective brothers reappear and the pursuit begins for the renegades, it's much too late for the reader to take any serious interest in the villains or their tiresome schemes.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Oh how I love this book! It's a definite keeper for me that I bring out whenever I need a tried and true story to make me smile and to impress me with good characters and good love scenes.
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Love the characters and storylines of JG books. Rich flowing details with a fun romantic plot to keep you turning the pages. One of my fav's.
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Jade is taking Caine on a merry chase. Her motives are unclear as well as her end game. She's fed him lie after lie interspersed with some truth and he fell for it hook, line and sinker. Now Lyon and Christina (from [book:The Lion's Lady|107783] are involved. Of course, Christina is convinced that Jade is Caine's destiny and with the immediate attraction between them, there is really no doubt.
A wonderful tale of pirates, conspiracies and romance. Julie Garwood has another winner.
A wonderful tale of pirates, conspiracies and romance. Julie Garwood has another winner.
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I own every book Julie Garwood has published and I love every one of them, especially Gardian Angel. She is a priate he is a Marquess, He thinks a priate killed his brother (who is very much alive). He falls in love with her and she falls in love with him. And the story begins.. A wonderful read, a must have......
