Wicked, My Love (Wicked Little Secrets), by Susanna Ives
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Wicked, My Love (Wicked Little Secrets), by Susanna Ives
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A smooth-talking rogue and a dowdy financial genius Handsome, silver-tongued politician Lord Randall doesn't get along with his bank partner, the financially brilliant but hopelessly frumpish Isabella St. Vincent. Ever since she was his childhood nemesis, he's tried-and failed-to get the better of her.
Make a perfectly wicked combinationWhen both Randall's political career and their mutual bank interests are threatened by scandal, he has to admit he needs Isabella's help. They set off on a madcap scheme to set matters right. With her wits and his charm, what could possibly go wrong? Only a volatile mutual attraction that's catching them completely off guard...
Praise for Wicked Little Secrets: "With Wicked Little Secrets' intriguing plot, quirky characters, witty escapades, and heartfelt dialogue, Ives has created a read that's as thought-provoking as it is romantic." -RT Book Reviews, 4 1/5 stars and nominee for Best First Historical Romance"A fresh voice that reminded me of Julia Quinn's characters." -Eloisa JAMES, New York Times bestselling author
Wicked, My Love (Wicked Little Secrets), by Susanna Ives- Amazon Sales Rank: #1018557 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.65" h x .96" w x 6.95" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 384 pages
Review "...heartwarming and lively, filled with surprises, laughter, and joy, and well worth reading and experiencing vicariously." - A Time for Us"I loved the quirkiness and unique vibe the author brought to the story. Everything adds up to make an historical romance that I won't soon forget." - Bitten by Romance"[A] clever and enchanting story about self discovery, trust, and friendships" - Books I Love a Latte"I have never read Susanna Ives before this book, but I will be going out to track down her other releases. From start to finish, this book draws the reader into the story and takes them on an almost epic adventure full of fake accents, distinctive characters, self-revelations, and a little bit of scandal." - Once Upon a Romance"If you like your historical romance to be very serious stuff, turn away! If you want to laugh out loud while reading about two seemingly mismatched people find their way out of almost-certain financial ruin and into love, grab Wicked, My Love!" - To Each Their Own Reviews"Sensuous foreplay heats up the pages but never overtakes the captivating story or the charming, witty characters." - Publishers Weekly"Wicked Little Secrets are Ives' forte, but it's the laugh-out-loud humor and slapstick comedy that will have readers crying with joy. Ives' sprightly repartee adds to the merriment, yet the poignancy that lies beneath will touch readers' hearts. Ives delivers on every level." - RT Book Reviews, 4 1/2 Stars, Top Pick!"This was a fun book with a surprising side helping of women's rights and financial sense. I enjoyed the writing style, and all the characters." - Romance @ Random"This was a great story by Ives and I can't wait to see what she comes up with next!" - Historical Romance Lover
About the Author Susanna Ives started writing when she left her job as a multimedia training developer to stay home with her family. Now she keeps busy driving her children to various classes, writing books, and maintaining websites. She often follows her husband on business trips around Europe and blogs about the misadventures of touring with children. She lives in Atlanta.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Witty, romantic and so enjoyable! By eyes.2c When our current stock of Victorian romance writers truly remembered the existence of Mary Wolstencroft a whole new genre of heroine came into being. The Bluestocking, she's formidable, generally portrayed as women's rights explorers, often overlooked or social inept. Women that today's women can thank as part of the progress to enfranchment, the recognition of their abilities and their freedoms. Not only that, but they present an excellent opening for writers to incorporate intrigue, humour and indepth social commentary. And that's just what Susanna Ives has given us. She's given us Isabella St. Vincent. Isabella is a gem. She has an off beat presence that wonderfully combines the different with the interesting. She is an intellect who wants to embrace her womanhood. The how of doing that is the hard part. I laughed at the language Isabella uses, thank you to Aunt Judith, for her womanly parts. I loved her ability to work out mathematical odds and problems. I loved that her abilities helped countless numbers of women to turn their lives around. If only Isabella could turn her personal relationships around!Her childhood arch enemy is Lord Randall but in their pursuit of matters that touch the very foundations of their joint banking interests, that childhood frisson between them takes on a life of its own, down paths neither has contemplated. A witty, somewhat different and most enjoyable read!A NetGalley ARC
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. I wanted to love this book, but couldn't get passed the childishness of the main characters By Adria Reyes * I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.So...Fumpy Isabella St. Vincent and the smooth Lord Randall have known each other since they were children and have been adversaries ever since they got into a childish spat over the sexes. As adults and bank partners, they try their best to avoid one another, until Lord Randall’s political career and their bank interests are on the verge of being destroyed by scandal. Now the financial genius and the rogue have to work together to figure out who is trying to sabotage everything they worked for, all while trying not to tear each other apart, or fall in love.I really wanted to love this book, honestly I did!Isabella was the financial genius in Wicked My Love and I appreciated that she started off with a different outlook on life. She craved financial stability and had the brains to make it happen for herself. She was in an unheard of position for a woman of her time: She had responsibilities beyond securing a husband and having children and that always intrigues me. Sadly, her intelligence and ability to be somewhat independent was pushed to the side instead of being a very important part of who she was. Lord Randall was no better, hanging on to a childish spat was one thing but to continue to act as he were a nine year old with his teasing. All he needed to do was stick his tongue out and stomp his foot at Isabella. I’m all for bickering between the two main characters but not like this.The sex scenes were written like the writer was a prepubescent teenager. Phrases like “sacred feminine vessel” and “man part” quickly doused whatever heat Randall and Isabella had going. Okay, I get that “sacred feminine vessel” was how her cousin probably referred to her, um, lady bits but couldn’t Isabella have discovered a better name for it? It was just so silly and over the top that it just killed the mood and the chemistry between the two characters! For a character who had a cousin that supported women’s rights and didn’t believe in keeping girls ignorant about the facts of life, Isabelle was even more ignorant than most.Then there was the actual relationship between the two, Isabella never quite found her footing as part of a couple. At times it seemed like she was content to let Randall do the thinking for both of them, even though she was the one with the intelligence. She never really established herself as an independent entity, nor did she have a strong sense of who she was when she wasn’t with Randall. To me, she needed more of a backbone and personality to make her a solid, stand alone character. Her identity shouldn’t have depended on whether Randall was around or not. All in all, I thought Isabella was too dependent on Lord Randall’s presence that I felt she wasn’t her own character but rather, just a pretty extension of Lord Randall himself.Wicked, My Love wasn’t all bad though. I did love the twists and turns as Randall and Isabella tried to unravel the mystery of just who wants to bring them down and why. The entire adventure was exciting and that’s what kept me reading when I would have otherwise put this book down. I do want to make one thing absolutely clear though: My issues with this book are strictly about the characters and their relationship with one another. Not the author’s style. I happened to enjoy the setting and the plot so YES I will try this author again before I go and say Susanna Ives isn’t for me. I just won’t be listing Isabella and Randall as my favorite characters.Final Verdict: I'm willing to try this author again.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Fun but not entirely Frivolous By Book Gannet I loved this book! It’s so fun and frivolous, yet at the same time the characters are racing around trying to avert a real crisis which could have terrible consequences – particularly for the heroine. Oh, and that heroine happens to be super smart, while the hero is gorgeously charming, all set in early-Victorian England. I adored it from start to finish.Isabella is wonderful – she’s a smart woman of independent means and has made her father’s bank three times more successful than when he ran it. She’s also the author of a best-selling book helping woman to make the most of their own funds, no matter how modest they might be. Yes, all right, so her aunt rewrote most of her book and filled it with melodramatic human-interest stories in the most Gothic manner, and she would never measure her own success against her father’s because she feels like she could never measure up to him, and she keeps all her emotions severely suppressed for fear of messing everything up, but that doesn’t deny the fact that she’s smart, caring and funny. She’s a little awkward socially, she can’t dance, she doesn’t always understand jokes and she’s lost without her glasses, not to mention terrified of the prospect of public-speaking, but she’s sweet and real and I couldn’t help liking her, and loving the ridiculous escapades she gets entangled in, with or without Randall’s assistance. The entire hay-pregnancy episode was brilliant.I found Randall a bit more exasperating. Yes, he is handsome and charming and so funny, but he’s an idiot when it comes to Isabella and his political career. He’s so busy telling her he can’t marry her, while at the same time wanting her to confess undying love! There were a few times when I wanted to shake him, but when it comes down to the crunch he does everything he can to save Isabella, and I love how they are together when they both stop thinking about who and what they are. The house-breaking scene was so funny, and I loved the Irish footman-d’amour nonsense.Funny, warm and charming, with a plot that swings between farcical and serious, I loved how light this historical felt while it also dealt with more serious issues like runs on banks, child labor and orphans, not to mention the rights of women. Yes, perhaps it would have been nice if Isabella’s aunt had been less of a clichéd man-hater, but there’s so much humor in her advice that I had to like her too.In all I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it was a joy to read and I will definitely be looking out for more from this author.(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.)
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