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A review by seeinghowitgoes
Vixen in Velvet by Loretta Chase
3.0
Ahh the booksmart/numbers heroine, usually one of my kinks and probably the main thing getting me through this particular book. Leonie is the smart one in the family, while Sophie is the spy and Marcelline is the artist, she's the one actually running their store, paying off their creditors and keeping things going in the absence of her newly married sisters.
Her hero is a strange contradiction in misogyny and new age man, there's a creepy emphasis on virginity in this series that I really wish wasn't there and the strange fixation/revelation this has on our heroes once they realise they're "first". I couldn't quite get over that in Sophie's story, but in this case Simon's weakness and probably the best part of this book was Swanton and his effect on Simon (my favourite scene being the one were Simon is overcome by all of the embroidered goods made by the girls supported by Noirot's charity).
I would have loved to have seen more of this side of their characters, not to mention more details of the Swanton/Gladys romance!
Her hero is a strange contradiction in misogyny and new age man, there's a creepy emphasis on virginity in this series that I really wish wasn't there and the strange fixation/revelation this has on our heroes once they realise they're "first". I couldn't quite get over that in Sophie's story, but in this case Simon's weakness and probably the best part of this book was Swanton and his effect on Simon (my favourite scene being the one were Simon is overcome by all of the embroidered goods made by the girls supported by Noirot's charity).
I would have loved to have seen more of this side of their characters, not to mention more details of the Swanton/Gladys romance!