Reviews

Impetuous Innocent by Laurens

lrsbooks7's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.0

pattydsf's review against another edition

2.0

I enjoy Laurens' series very much. This romance is one of her earlier works with no apparent connection to her series. It was not quite as good as her series, but it was just about what I wanted. A quick fun read that required no thought. I am reading these romances like they are chocolates - my brain is just not up to anything else.

athenaevarinya's review against another edition

5.0

So apparently it was okay in the early 1800s to marry your first cousin. I double-checked to make sure that this wasn't a detail error that the author had made like the ones she had in another book. And no the heroine doesn't marry her cousin, but her cousin tries to force her to marry him so he can take her inheritance.

helenephoebe's review

4.0

Review - I was pleasantly surprised by this novel. Having read nearly all of Laurens's work going back to reading a book she wrote early in her career was an interesting experience. It's a lot less sexual than later books which was a nice change. I absolutely loved Georgiana and Belle! They were both so strong, but also unusual in their view of ton activities. Dominic was an intriguing character - not quite as alpha-male as the heroes in, for example, the Cynster series.

Genre? - Historical / Romance

Characters? - Georgiana Hartley / Dominic, Viscount Alton / Julian Ellesmere / Charles Hartley / Belle Winsmere / Arthur Winsmere

Setting? - London (England)

Series? - N/A

Recommend? - Yes

Rating - 19/20

klleite's review against another edition

4.0

This a good SL book. She is one of my favorite Romance authors.

55bookworm63's review against another edition

2.0

I never wanted to slap someone stupid as I did the heroine! I mean really??!!! I know some people are slow on the up take but man I got frustrated with her! The hero wasn't all that with it either, but at least he had an excuse because men are usually clueless about women.

sarah1984's review

3.0

13/11 - So light it was like fairy floss. Light on the romance and light on the plot believability. The heroine, Georgiana, spent the whole book believing there was no way the hero, Dominic, could actually be in love with her. She came up with all kinds of crazy reasons for her disbelief - in love with another, marrying her for her property, and finally marrying her to avoid creating a scandal.

There were a few things I liked about the story - I liked the fact that the hero realised he was in love quite early, and didn't do everything he could to deny his feelings. I liked the way Dominic kept having to rescue Georgiana from herself was amusing, though for me not LOL.

I did not like Georgiana's constant disbelief of Dominic's love, one or two times would have been amusing, the third time was like "Again?! Come on! This is getting ridiculous." I've never been a fan of such 'light' romance, and in this particular book Dominic's strength of 'restraint' in not shocking or scaring virginal Georgiana was quite irritating. If all the other 'experienced' heroes of regency romances had used such restraint a lot of marriages (and therefore children and sequels) would not have happened. For example, her Cynster series would not have been nearly so long-lasting or popular if those regency heroes had been restrained enough to hold out till marriage, in fact her Cynster Sisters series might not have happened at all.

My 'did not like' paragraph is considerably longer than my 'did like' paragraph, but despite that it's managed to get a three out of me, mostly because it was perfect 'I'm not feeling well' (really) light reading that didn't tax my brain in any way (except in believability), and therefore didn't add to my 'I'm not feeling well' woes.

smiley7245's review against another edition

3.0

I have mixed feelings about this book. While I liked all of the characters individually I had a hard time with the age gap between Dominic and Georgiana; he is 32 and she is 18. It's a lot and 18 is very young. But at the same time I'm happy they ended up together. He very much respected her and her innocence and initially was just trying to be a good person and help her out. The fact that this built over time was the saving grace for me. I am glad that there was not too much drama with her horrible cousin, or with his former mistress.

simplyparticular's review against another edition

2.0

The usual lots of misunderstandings and miscommunications, and alpha male, but at least this one didn't avoid telling her he loved her.

The only thing really missing was the sex, so this must have been one of the early category romances.