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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. #4 in the Pink Carnation series and it is by no means the best. I loved how the book started off -- Mary Allsworthy, Letty's conniving sister from book 3, is staying with her newly married sister and hates life since she lost the man she tried to snare. I was intrigued to find out how Willig would make her a likable character since in the previous book Mary had been controlling and fake. And like her I did! Well, at least at first. She is 'recruited' by Vaughn to help flush out the Black Tulip (sinister French spy) and begins to learn more about him - Vaughn - as a person and *gasp* likes him! Vaughn is witty and is constantly throwing out references to literature that I am quite sure Mary should not have understood, but they were still enjoyable nonetheless. I loved their unorthodox 'courtship' but as soon as they decided to both declare their undying love for each other, it all went downhill from there. I did not feel like either of these cynical, proud characters should have all the sudden found themselves blissfully happy about their new-found relationship. I half-enjoyed it but felt like the last 1/3 of the book should have been rewritten. Oh well. (  ) mmillet | Dec 14, 2009 |  Lord Vaughn gets his turn in the spotlight, when Jane asks him to recruit Mary Alsworthy to be bait for the Black Tulip. Both Mary and Vaughn become more sympathetic here, as we get inside their heads. In the present day, Eloise and Colin go on an actual date, and she learns why he was so rude at first. This continues to be a fun series. (  ) readinggeek451 | Nov 12, 2009 | I was very disappointed in this book, especially after the excellency of the last two volumes of the series. The Seduction Of the Crimson Rose moved at a much slower pace. I was so used to the fast-paceness of the previous three volumes that I became quite bored quite fast. I simply wasn't interested in the characters of Mary or Vaughn and the story seemed to go downhill once they declared their 'love' for each other. I can't count how many times I thought, "Spare me!" Actually, I was quite interested in Vaughn before The Seduction Of the Crimson Rose. In the previous two volumes he was a mysterious sort of character. There was no mystery in this book. The better parts of this book was the last third. The only purpose of The Seduction Of the Crimson Rose seemed to be the uncovering of the Black Tulip and that was incredibly disappointing, as well. The story of Eloise, however, was very much the best part. I was disappointed with how her chapters are greatly spaced out between the historical chapters. There just isn't enough of her story, in my opinion. Nevertheless, I do very much love this series and am looking forward to the next installment. (  ) runaway84 | Aug 11, 2009 | I have to say I really didn’t like this book as much as I liked the first three. I am not a fan of Mary Alsworthy or Lord Vaughn to be honest and I didn’t much care for the plot and politics of this fourth book. One of the things I liked the most about this series is the sense of humour and wit that comes out in the writing, but I found myself yawning more than laughing this time around. The entire review is here! (  ) beyondelsewhere | Jul 31, 2009 | My first reaction to this book was feeling let down. The climax when the Black Tulip was discovered wasn't all that great. Not a lot of the book was devoted to finding about who he was. It was more focused on Lord Vaughn and Mary's romancing. ( ) macart3 | Jun 28, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0525950338, Hardcover)“Pride and Prejudice lives on,” (USA Today) “a fun and zany time warp,” (New York Daily News) “history textbook meets Bridget Jones” (Marie Claire): Readers and reviewers alike praise Lauren Willig’s bestselling Pink Carnation series for its passion, adventure, and tantalizing stories of flower- named spies during the Napoleonic wars.Lauren Willig continues the exciting Pink Carnation series with her fourth novel, The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, featuring Lord Vaughn, the delightfully devilish spy from The Masque of the Black Tulip, and Mary Alsworthy, the raven-haired beauty whose sister accidentally stole her suitor in The Deception of the Emerald Ring. Determined to secure another London season without assistance from her new brother-in-law, Mary accepts a secret assignment from Lord Vaughn on behalf of the Pink Carnation: to infiltrate the ranks of the dreaded French spy, the Black Tulip, before he and his master can stage their planned invasion of England. Every spy has a weakness, and for the Black Tulip that weakness is black-haired women—his “petals” of the Tulip. A natural at the art of seduction, Mary easily catches the attention of the French spy, but Lord Vaughn never anticipates that his own heart will be caught as well. Fighting their growing attraction, impediments from their past, and, of course, the French, Mary and Vaughn find themselves lost in the shadows of a treacherous garden of lies. As our modern-day heroine, Eloise Kelly, digs deeper into England’s Napoleonic- era espionage, she becomes even more entwined with Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy subjects. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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