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Finally freed from a cruel, depraved husband, Serena Riverton wants nothing more to do with men or marriage. Fate and her brothers give her no choice, however, except to flee - into the arms of a stranger. Serena seduces a handsome lord which will start a sequence of events that threatens to destroy them both.
- Sales Rank: #849435 in Books
- Published on: 2011-06-01
- Released on: 2011-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.72" h x 1.19" w x 4.17" l, .47 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 448 pages
About the Author
Jo Beverley is widely regarded as one of the most talented romance writers today. She is a four-time winner of Romance Writers of America's cherished RITA Award and one of only a handful of members in the RITA Hall of Fame. She has also recieved the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Born in England, she now lives with her husband and two sons in Victoria, British Columbia, just a ferry ride away from Seattle, WA.
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Francis' story: another Rogue meets his match
By Dr W. Richards
While I enjoyed this book, I don't agree with the previous reviewer that it is better than the previous Company of Rogues books. I didn't find it as breathtaking or compelling as either Nicholas's or Lucien's stories in the first two books.
Francis Middlethorpe is a sweet, gentle and caring man, who is half-way in love with Nicholas's wife Eleanor but knows he must marry to ensure the continuation of his title and line. He is on the point of becoming engaged to Anne Peckworth, a duke's daughter; then he meets Serena Riverton, widow of a man dubbed Randy Riverton by the ton and whose marriage - entered into when she was 15 - had been an appalling, abusive sexual servitude. Running away from her brothers' attempts to sell her into another distasteful marriage, she wonders whether life as Lord Middlethorpe's mistress might be more congenial - so she seduces him.
As a result, Francis - being an honourable man - feels that he has no choice but to marry her. But the lack of trust between them, added to Serena's own preconceptions about marriage and sex, mean that their relationship is uneasy. A man who was a virgin until his wife seduced him, and a woman who views 'bed-work' as something to be endured and in which she must not display any reluctance, have a lot of difficulties to overcome.
Fans of Lucien and Beth, and of Nicholas and Eleanor, will find their heroes making several appearances in these pages. Francis's wonderful aunt, Arabella, also takes a secondary role. And just who is Felicity, Miles's wild ward? And will she reappear in a later Company of Rogues novel?
The only aspect of this book I really didn't like was the way Beverley handled the secondary romance. In particular, the scenes in which this was being resolved seemed to me to be farcical in the extreme (relying on confusions such as those following from there being two Lady Middlethorpes, for example), though I also found Francis's mother's blackmail tale, in the second chapter, unconvincing. I'm sure this aspect of the book could have been handled better.
However, that aside, Beverley handles Serena's traumatic past with delicacy and care, and she and Francis make a lovely couple.
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
One of the best in the Company of Rogues series
By A Customer
For me, FORBIDDEN ties with its immediate predecessor CHRISTMAS ANGEL for the position of second best book in the Company of Rogues series (my very favourite is AN UNWILLING BRIDE). Like all the Rogues novels, it's extremely original. The hero--Francis Haile, Lord Middlethorpe--is a virgin...highly unusual for a young Regency blood. The heroine, Serena Riverton, on the other hand, is only too experienced. She had been married--her husband died shortly before the beginning of the story--but she's no ordinary widow. She was married off at a young age to the depraved Sir Matthew "Randy" Riverton; over the eight years of their marriage she was essentially her husband's sex slave, or as he put it, his "well-trained wife" (by the way, I once read a description of FORBIDDEN which cautioned that some readers might be disturbed by the references to Serena's abusive first marriage. However, though Riverton _was_ a monster, there's nothing gratuitous about these references--unlike in some romances, where the heroines' sexual abuse by the villains _is_ presented in a titillating manner). Then, just months after widowhood frees Serena from the nightmare that was her first marriage, she learns that her loathsome brothers plan to sell her into marriage to a man like her late husband (or, if she refuses to cooperate, to sell her into a brothel). Her only option is to flee.
She and Francis are thrown together when he stops to offer her a ride after overtaking her on a lonely country road as a violent storm is about to break. They're forced to take refuge in a farmhouse for the night-- posing as husband and wife, since their host is a religious zealot--and in desperation, Serena seduces Francis early the next morning while he's still half-asleep, hoping that he'll make her his mistress: she's despaired of finding any respectable sanctuary, and has concluded that her best hope lies in becoming a high-priced courtesan.
Francis _is_ bewitched by her. But, he's also deeply suspicious of her. Moreover, he had been on the verge of proposing to a respectable young lady out of a sense of duty to marry suitably and carry on the family line; now those plans have been thrown into turmoil (incidentally, I really take exception the publisher's description of Anne Peckworth--the woman Francis was about to become betrothed to when he met Serena--as "dull". Though quiet and proper, she was actually a very nice young lady, and there was a genuine poignancy about her unrequited feelings for Francis. I think it's greatly to Jo Beverley's credit that she _didn't_ make Anne an insipid bore who Francis would feel no compunction over dropping--or who Serena would feel no guilt over supplanting). The story of how Serena and Francis' relationship develops from these inauspicious beginnings is a captivating one.
38 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
*Spoiler Alerts* They get married because she rapes him
By J. M.C.
I was intrigued going into this story. The book starts off our heroine being sexually objectified by pretty much all the men in her life (including the hero albeit in a obvious way) because she was 'built for sex' and has seductress eyes. Umm, okay. I've never met a person with an eye shape that seduces but, sure, we'll go with it.
However, I was completely put off shortly into the book when the heroine rapes the hero after he repeatedly turns her down. She waits for him to be half asleep and she basically has sex with him before he's even fully awake. This is why they get together. Does she feel bad about it afterwards? Yes. Does she try to make amends? Sort of. She literally takes his virginity from him without his consent. She believes it's that all men want this. Well, he had already rejected her a few times so she already knew that HE DIDN'T WANT TO. She's had a very brief violent understanding to sex given the tiny glimpses we get into her marriage. She knows what it means to have someone do something to do you that you don't want and be forced to suffer through it. Does that stop her from doing it others/him? No, it doesn't. The fact that she was sexually abused DOES NOT GIVE HER THE RIGHT TO RAPE SOMEONE ELSE. Period.
But, for some reason, I kept reading. At least until the part where he calls her all sorts of sexually degrading names based on a, largely incomprehensible, theory. After he yells at her, Beverley writes that she hits him *and he hits her back* at which point she knocks him out with something. Wow. Seriously? We're adding domestic violence to this tidy little historical romance? For reals? Sigh. That's the point where I put the book down and asked amazon for a refund for this book because it contains 'offensive content'. Eff that ish.
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