How to Tame a Ladyby Kasey Michaelsreviewed by Cybil SolynOctober 2009, 368 pages, Publisher: HQN, ISBN: 0373773765 Back Cover Blurb: Lady Nicole Daughtry has vowed never to be vulnerable to any man. Despite the many suitors vying for the dazzling beauty's hand, she has seen the damage love can inflict and wants no part of it. Until she meets Lucas Paine, Marquess of Basingstoke, whose aura of danger and mystery draws her like no other….
Lucas is a man with a mission - and a powerful thirst for revenge. The last thing he can afford is the distraction of a pretty face. But a scandalous affair with Nicole could be just the cover he needs to outwit his enemies. With treachery everywhere, and Nicole's very life in his hands, Lucas will face his greatest challenge yet - to keep the lady safe from harm… and his heart safe from her.
It's sometimes hard to read an author back to back. Especially when that author is usually stellar. While How to Tame a Lady wasn't a bad book, I was pretty bored by it.
Lady Nicole Daughtry watched her sister get her heart broken a year ago and vowed that she would never place herself in loves evil clutches. No! She would do all the heart breaking and only marry for status, wealth, and comfort. But then she meets Lucas Paine, the Marquess of Baingstoke and learns that the heart isn't so easily tamed.
In Michaels' last book we met Nicole and her twin sister Lydia who are as different as night and day in both their looks and temperaments. Lydia is quiet, studious, and nice in all ways. She has been hurt by the death of her first love at Waterloo and has transferred that hurt onto another man. This is the story that was interesting to me, and I enjoyed watching this relationship grow.
Nicole, on the other hand, is headstrong and immature. She thinks she knows everything and manipulates those around her to get her own way. Which was my major problem with this book. Nicole was annoying and immature in the last book and although the author does a valiant job of having her grow and mature through this one, I just wasn't buying it. I didn't like Nicole at the start of the book and I didn't like her anymore at the end of it. This made most of the read boring since I didn't care for the heroine.
Our hero Lucas was a good hero. He was fine. He probably would have shined a bit more if I had liked Nicole even a little bit. But he wasn't anything special to me, and not nearly interesting enough to make up for how annoying Nicole was.
The story is well written, and there is a lot of humor which is expected from a Kasey Michaels book. She is a wonderful writer, but this book just wasn't to my liking - which doesn't mean it won't be to yours.
Bottom Line: Although I didn't like How to Tame a Lady I imagine that many Michaels fans will/ But if you have trouble with immature heroines - do yourself a favor and skip this one.
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