Sleeping Beauty
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780788759765 (0788759760)
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Recorded Books
Edition language: English
Neither of the main characters, nor the setting, appealed to me, so I put this one down after a few chapters.
3.5 stars.Dammit, here's what happens when you accidentally read too many books with the same theme in a short period of time!WARNING: BIG TIME SPOILER for anyone who has read The Duke but not this book, or this book but not The DukeI quite enjoyed this book -- the writing was good, the characters d...
Older woman/younger man! Prostitute heroine who's not ashamed of her past! I wish there'd been more about her work, really. It's a bit idealized.
While this book doesn't supplant UNTIE MY HEART or THE PROPOSITION as my favorite Judith Ivory novels, it was memorable enough to revisit in the future. Coco was an original heroine, and I enjoyed both her independence, her maturity, and her unrepentant past. Ivory was particularly clever with how...
This is a "must read", a classic even, in romance reading circles. So, I did my duty and read it and must say a lot of the book left me cold. The characters, though not always entirely likable, aren't your standard hero/heroine. The heroine is a mistress and a bit older than the hero but she's a bit...