Sheila's Reads

I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book! Thrale is my new book boyfriend. Lucy and Thrale are wonderful characters. I like that Thrale does not accept Lucy's empty look at face value when he meets her again. He looks beyond the front she presents to the world. Lucy tries to hide her intelligence and interest in the world behind a façade of the simple-headed society miss to avoid being hurt or hurting those close to her. Her reputation is in ruins because she, a gentleman's daughter, married far below heI LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book! Thrale is my new book boyfriend. Lucy and Thrale are wonderful characters. I like that Thrale does not accept Lucy's empty look at face value when he meets her again. He looks beyond the front she presents to the world. Lucy tries to hide her intelligence and interest in the world behind a façade of the simple-headed society miss to avoid being hurt or hurting those close to her. Her reputation is in ruins because she, a gentleman's daughter, married far below her station. She married a pugilist. She also came to love him and their sex life. When she was widowed she returned home where no one speaks of her marriage. The Marquess of Thrale likes the sport of pugilism and practices it. Lucy teaches him things he did not know about pugilism. She was an avid student of it because of her husband. She has insights that Thrale never expects a woman to have. I like that Thrale treats her as an equal during their discussions of it. I also enjoyed their fight scene. I loved that Lucy was treated as an intelligent woman who was interested in more than fashion and gossip. Her forthrightness was wonderful to hear. I also liked that Lucy could admit, if only to herself, that she liked sex and she liked it rough. When she and Thrale finally get together, their sex scenes were some of the most arousing I have read. I loved the honesty between them at those times. I hope more books are planned in this series. I enjoyed this book.