So middle of my steam tolerance, but so very well done and powerful.more There are a few additional scenes of intimacy and non-sexual nudity as well that were tightly integrated into the story. They were exactly right for the tone and emotional arc of the characters. This was powerful and I loved every minute.Ī note about Steamy: There are two explicit mostly-sex scenes. I spent the last chapters in tears going through the pain with Dare and Mara. I stayed up way too late, unable to put this book down. But Beverley makes sure it has the weight such a win needs to feel lasting and she pulls it off with power and conviction. That's not a spoiler so much as necessary for the happily ever after needed for a romance. Yes, Dare wins over the addiction in the end. And the culmination of their efforts, those last chapters, slew me. She has the courage to put her heart on the line and in a way that provided support, not burden, and her true caring was powerful. I loved that she set out to understand first, and did her best to support and strengthen rather than control or manipulate. I loved that her enthusiasm was bent in Dare's service and built on true caring for his well-being. He has been building up his physical and mental reserves with a unique program that fits modern understanding of the problem but isn't outside the realm of the possible for the time.Īnd Mara was a delight and not at all frivolous or naïve. This is mostly possible because Dare is at the tail end of a year-long recovery program that is sensible and realistic. Okay, that sounds like it isn't taken seriously enough, but I assure you it is. In other words, life continues to happen and Dare's addiction is a huge complication but set in a broader story. Add a young and idealistic woman and the prospect for naïve narrative and the "healing power of love" and I smelled trainwreck.īeverley makes this work by making Dare's addiction an integral part of the story but doesn't revolve around it. I don't normally seek out "issue" books and this seemed likely to have all the hallmarks. Addiction isn't pretty or nice and I know that opium addiction ruins lives. I I put off reading this for nearly a week because I dreaded the story. Beverley makes this work by making Dare's addiction an integral part of the story but doesn't revolve around it. Add a young and idealistic woman and the prospect for naïve narrative and the "healing power of love" and I smelled trainwreck. I put off reading this for nearly a week because I dreaded the story. But Mara is determined to reignite his warm smile, and enlists the help of all the Rogues to offer Dare a temptation he cannot resist.more Forever changed by the war, he now believes nothing, not even the interference of a lovely young minx like Mara-can rescue him from his demons. Before he was wounded at Waterloo, Dare had embraced everything life had to offer. Luckily, her brother's oldest friend, the devilishly sexy Lord Darius Debenham, answered her plea for help. Bride has never backed down from a good adventure, which was how she wound up roaming the streets of London in the middle of the night, wearing nothing but a shift and corset beneath an old blanket.
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