Find Prelude To A Scandal (Scandal, #1) Imagined By Delilah Marvelle Textbook
pero me da la sensación de que como By reading the back cover blurb for this book you would expect the story to be about "the battle between the lady and the rake is about to begin".
Which it is . . Lady Justine is willing to become her friends I just can't think of a better word right now mistress in exchange for him helping to get her father out of prison for his book on his views on animals, sex, and how they are similar to humans.
Justine is very surprised when Radcliff, Duke of Bradford, makes a different offer to her instead, he wants to marry her in six weeks time but they can not see each other, as he has gotten a terrible scar on his face due to his.
. . problem.
That brings us to what else this book is about, When you open the book and read the Dear Reader letter, you learn that Radcliff is dealing with a sex addiction problem.
Which really leads to some, um, interesting happenings in the book that definitely pushed my comfort zone area and left me shaking my head a bit.
But Ms Marvelle does make the request to set aside what we think ofand allow her to give us her version of.
So, I did try to do that and with saying that, this actually was a very interesting book to read.
I did not love it but I did not feel like I was wasting my time reading it.
It definitely makes you think that this probably really did happen during this time and I thought the author did a fairly good job handling it.
Overall, I give this book/stars, What dragged it down a bit for me was how Radcliff suddenly had an "aha" moment as to why he acted the way he did and I didn't quite feel that.
Also, he had quite a few mood swings and with his problem, even though the romance between Justine and Radcliff seemed very genuine and true, I'm just not sure if it is deep enough to outlast everything.
And then there is his rotten brothers pregnant mistress, Miranda who is part of the book, I didn't really like her and I thought her twist she added was a bit too much and not needed.
There are two more books in this trilogy, sitelinkOnce Upon a Scandal and sitelinkThe Perfect Scandal which I am looking forward to reading.
But this book reminds me to always check for that Dear Reader letter so you know
what you are getting yourself into because the back blurb may not always define it so clearly! : There are few authors out there with so few books under her belt that willingly test the boundries of their readers like DM.
I will admit to being a fangurl and loving her School of Gallentry series and hated the fact she didn't get to finish the series.
But that doesn't mean that I can't take a step back and be honest how I feel about a book.
So here we are with her Scandal series and here she is dragging us right up the precipice of our comfort zone and daring us to jump.
So we have Justine who has had a tendre for Radcliff, the Duke of Bradford forever, So naturally when her dad gets put in prison for writing a book about how animals are not so very apart from man when it comes to the act of sex.
Justine offers herself as payment if Radcliff will help her dad, Color her surprised when instead he wants to marry her in six weeks, She agrees knowing that he is not the man she knewmonths ago as she has heard that he now has a scar on his face.
When he refuses to see her up until the time of the wedding she grows even more alarmed.
But Justine doesn't really know the/of it, Her husband has other deeper issues to contend with other than the loss of some of his prettiness.
Can she survive this addiction and can their marriage Is he strong enough to overcome the obsession It is a condition that we hear about all to often in today's times.
There are other things that are going to push your boundries in this book and I hope that you can get around them to see the picture of the entire book.
Did I like some of what took place, no, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be wrote about.
This is also a darker book then what I am used to from her, TSoG series had a lightheartness about it that this book doesn't have, It was as good, just different, IMO,
I didn't give itbecause after all the book pushed some of my boundries a little too hard, but that didn't mean I didn't enjoy it.
I must have as I read it in a matter of hours, I do hope Carlton finds a deep dark privy to fall into and I hope that you give this new series a try.
Demi membayar utang ayahnya yg dipenjara krn mengumumkan risetnya ttg perkawinan sesama jenis yg diobservasi dari hewanhewan yg ditelitinya, Justine hrs membayarnya dgn menikahi Radcliff, Duke Bradford.
Radcliff memiliki masa kelam yg membuat dirinya mendapat "cinderamata" codet di pipinya, Pernikahannya dgn Justine yg semula tenang seperti air beriak tetiba menjadi tsunami sejak kedatangan Matilda, ex simpanan adik haram Radcliff, Carlton.
Dibilang rumit tapi gak rumit juga, Carlton ini layaknya antagonis di film maupun buku novel, menyimpan rasa iri yg tinggi pd Radcliff, Dengan sengaja "mengumpankan" Radcliff dgn lukisan Matilda, yg menyebabkan Radcliff "hilang kontrol" hingga insiden yg menyebabkan luka codet tsb.
Kini Matilda yg sedang hamil tua minta perlindungan pd Radcliff, Disini saya memihak pd Radcliff, seharusnya Matilda diusir saja, Tapi Justine yg sifatnya rada "aneh" ini malah memaksa Radcliff utk menerima Matilda, Dan mulailah masalah terjadi, dari cinta sepihak Matilda dan Carlton yg nyaris membuat Justine terbunuh,
Dgn semua huru hara ini, ortu Justine keberatan Justine masih berada di London dan memutuskan membawa Justine ke Capetown, Afrika Selatan makin aneh, krn setahu saya wanita yg sudah menikah, adalah hak suaminya utk memutuskan sudah bukan orangtuanya lagi yg menentukan.
Dan sumpah!!! makin aneh lagi Radcliff memutuskan ikut berbohong pd istrinya utk dipisahkan dari dirinya, pdhl Radcliff sangat sayang pd istrinya ini.
Saya gak habis pikir apa maunya author ini, pdhl plot cerita sudah menarik di awal cerita sebelum jadi geje di pertengahan akhir.
Bagusnya, kedua insan ini saling jujur satu sama lain pengecualian pembohongan Cape Town tsb, Radcliff kesulitan utk mengontrol libidonya, maka dari itu dia melakukan "terapi aneh" dgn meniadakan pelayan wanita di rumahnya, dan malah menyediakan pelayan pria yg gay utk istrinya.
Maksudnya novel ini mau mendukung LGBT atau bagaimana Entahlah!!!,