Book Review: The Earl and his Tiger

The Earl of Stanton buys a tiger to ride up behind him on his phaeton and discover the tiger is a female who he seduces.  Later in the story he finds out the tiger is the Lady Jane de Montfort.  Concept is a little bit old Georgette Heyer did a rendition of this same theme in Shades of Gray. 

Story line was okay the plot is simple with very little side plot development.  I thinks that must be the hardest thing for authors is the side plot development but it adds so much to a story.  It's like multi-tasking but in a book.  The side plot is something you can develop to add to the background of the characters.  In this one the author could of done flashbacks to the step mother and her lovers reasons behind their treatment of the heroine.  Another side story on the dead brother who shows up in the last chapters of the book with a one paragraph explanation of where he came from.  

Heroines, they should come in a variety of personalities but the best ones are strong, humorous, and have a variety of shapes and sizes.  Women who can hold there own in any situation.  These women do not need to be ninjas like Lara Croft but they should not be doormats either.  The heroine in this story was to much of a doormat for me.

Book Review: The Short and Fascinating Tale of Angelina

Romance novels can be so fascinating at time. They sweep you into intense love scenes.  Take you away for reality for short time in your day. At  lease that is what they do for me.  This is not one of those romances.

In this romance a mother decides to place an add in the news paper for someone to romance her son to make sure he can physically seduce a female.  A female is found to participate in the seduction and proceeds to romance the son and of course the son falls in love with the female. Different concept which is good but the execution fall a tad be short.

As plots go this one if very simple just straight seduction of the son then back to London the heroine goes to continue her life.   Simple plots are okay but it would of been a better reading experience if the author had added a side plot or two.  That would of helped with character development a bit more.  In the book she talks about the heroine's time on the stage and her life as a mistress.  If she had developed that area more and also develop why the son need to be seduced in the first place it would been a better read.  This is not a book I would recommend.