A review by caz963
All's Fair in Love & Seduction by Beverley Kendall

2.0

This was an okay, quick read. I'd enjoyed others in this series, and as this was a freebie, thought I may as well give it a go. It's a "heroine is compromised by hero so they have to marry" kind of story, which I admit is one of the tropes of which I'm quite fond in HRs. I'm also not averse to stories in which the heroine is honest about her attraction to and desire for the hero - I mean, the heroes of these sorts of book are invariably drop-dead gorgeous, so why shouldn't a woman be able to think so? Of course, in period romance, a woman isn't supposed to act on those feelings, or express them, which, if handled well, all serves to increase the sexual tension.

There's plenty of that here, and it's well-done. I just think that the characters weren't really fleshed-out enough, and the reconciliation towards the end was cursory; given how Derek treated Elizabeth, I think she could have made him grovel a bit more!

I think I'll stick to Kendall's full-length novels from now on.