Seduction by Amanda Quick
Started Reading: April 10, 2007
Finished Reading: April 10, 2007
I’ve always loved Amanda Quick’s novels and characters, though I’ve yet to see an Amanda Quick hero who isn’t cold, distant, and holds a low esteem of women. While Julian Richard Sinclair, Earl of Ravenwood, was not a very unique character, I liked Sophy Dorring. She wasn’t a reputed beauty (although a lot of men still vied for her attention in the book, she wasn’t exactly a diamond of the first water - as they’d call the walking paragons of beauty). She also knows her bounds and limits, though she loves herself enough to have demands of her own. Sophy wasn’t too stubborn and daring, and I was very amused with her notions of honor and determination to be treated equally, at least in a sense, as a man.
I also admired her when she did not push through with revenge when Julian asked her to go back to Ravenwood. I was glad she had the sense and the selflessness not to have her own way to protect Julian. =) Like most of Amanda Quick’s heroines, I liked Sophy very much. I just don’t understand why these historical romance authors couldn’t make their heroes different when their heroines pretty much are in each novel. Though they have the usual streak of stubbornness and determination (I think this is why I like Fanny Price of Mansfield Park. She’s such a passive character and she’s very different from these historical romance women but she still manages to have a happy ending. I’ve yet to see a historical romance author make a story out of such a character!), they have their certain flaws and unique traits. Meanwhile, the men are always titled rakes (and for them all I have to say is, “Same old, same old.”).
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