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About Seduction starts off with an interesting premise, . . an aging mill owner who finds out he is infertile and desperate for a son to inherit forces his much younger wife to be unfaithful with men of his choosing.
This plan comes unstuck when John Applegate an intelligent but uneducated and impoverished mill worker is injured and nursed back to his health by the said lady Caroline Broadhurst.
The two had already been drawn to each other despite the differences in their wealth and standing and Caroline asks Jack to become the father of her child, Amid the setbacks of Caroline's adversity to sex because of her cold and cruel husband and Jack's injury and position in the world they fall in love, But how can they be together, she is married and he has not the means to look after her and their baby,

This is an engaging story but has some pacing problems which mean it is good but not great, The first half of the book is a little laborious as the author I think tries to emphasize the impossiblity of a relationship between them, When they finally are together it is not the stuff of dreams and fireworks immediately and although probably realistic because of the circumstances it again slows down the flow of the story.
The resolution in the final quarter of the book then seems a little rushed and the problems of the difference in their social standing which were a big part of the story seem to melt away to nail down the HEA.


.stars.

I enjoyed this read, It was well written and the plot was well laid out, I felt bad for Jack, he had so many bad things happen and I so wanted him and Caroline to have their happy ending, And they do, but not before a lot of crap first, It all starts off with Caroline's husband demanding she take a lover to get pregnant an have a son, She doesn't want to and after a few failed attempts that did nothing but humiliate her she turns to the one man she is attracted to Jack, He was injured in a mill accident while saving a little girl, Caroline insists that she have her way with his healing since she is being made to commit the sin of adultery, Jack shows her what passion is and she helps him heal and encourages him to make his dreams a reality in more ways then one, Great read! She had never known passion like this, . .

Caroline Broadhurst is about to take a loverat her husband's command, For fifteen years, Caroline has done everything her much older husband has desiredexcept provide an heir, Now he has given her an ultimatum: seduce a suitable gentleman and bear a son, Caroline would never think of bowing to such a shameful order, but then she meets Jack Applegate,

Jack has longed for the beautiful, untouchable Caroline for years, but the chasm between them was too wide to ever dream of crossing, Now, fate and passion have thrown them together, but the potential scandal threatens to smother their love, And when a violent secret comes to light, only a terrible sacrifice will prevent the flame of their affection from being snuffed out forever, The beginning is a little slow/boring, but then it gets a lot better, This was my first book by Katy Madison, I am still conflicted in my feelings towards this book even though I still liked it overall, There were some good things and there were some bad things but it balanced out enough to make me want to read more by Katy Madison,


When Caroline is summoned to her husbands office one day, she never expected to hear the proposal he brought to the table, He wants a child which Caroline also desperately wants but he is sterile, After fifteen years of marriage, Caroline thought it was her unable to conceive a child, What he proposes is for her to sleep with men of his choosing that is brought to their home and have one of them father the child, Caroline was very young when she married her much older husband, She has never enjoyed sex and can't stand the act of it, Her husband has always been rough and uncaring when it comes to lovemaking, Even with these feelings towards sex, she still has been a proper wife and never had affairs or improper acts with anyone else, The only way she will receive any money if her husband passes away is if she provides him with an heir,


Let me start with the things I did not like about this book so we can get them out of the way, First her husband is way older than her considering he is as old as a grandfather would be, Two, what kind of husband would make you sleep with other men strangers no less just to provide a baby instead of adopting Three, I hate how he made her do this, but then he got enraged when he suspects she actually did it! I understand this is a historical romance and things were done differently in those times, but the whole story was a little far fetched for me.



Now lets touch on the good things about the book for me, I absolutely fell in head over heels for Jack, He was sweet, patient and tender which every woman would love to have in a man, He has always admired Caroline from afar, but since he was only a mill worker at her husbands mill, he knew he was not even close to the same class she was in.
All Jack wants in life is a woman to love, a way to further his life financially to where he can provide for a family of his own, and a chance to be happy.
When he crushes his ankle on a piece of mill equipment though, he knows his life is going to change for the worse, No one will want a cripple working for them and he will have to give up his dreams of being an inventor in London, He was protective of Caroline, but held back enough to know when to step in and when not to, He always pushed her to open up to him about her problems and to let him in,


So, everything balanced out for me in this book which left me with just a mediocre feeling about the book, I liked the characters of Caroline and Jack, but there were characters I despised just as much, The ending was wrapped up way too quickly and I felt it needed to stretch out further than just a few pages, I wills till read more by the author and I can't wait to see what other type of historical scandal she can bring to the table next, but I won't go as far to say as it was my favorite historical romance this year.
I don't think I liked this book at any point, but I liked Caroline and I liked Jack, Just not their story. And what a nicely tied up little ending, Not my thing. Contains a few spoilers

Its very predictable to know what will happen with our hero and heroine right from the start, In spite of having to read some scenes that I didnt agree with the authors solution, we get to see Caroline dealing with her fears and surrendering to the hero, who helps to heal her from a terrible marriage and finally achieve the deserved happiness.


The plot isnt fresh, and other couples in that situation at that time would blame the wife till the end, Some of the decisions taken by the main characters were rather odd, but I was satisfied with the ending and the overall book, The characters are very well build, and Jack Applegate is the hero wed love to fall in love with! Broadhurst is a coward, distasteful and a disaster as a husband.
No wonder your hate for him will grow until simply reading his name will make you want to take the pen out of the authors hand kill him, Caroline is simply terrible at flirting, and not all the love scenes are happy in fact, some can be quite depressing,

The dialogues werent bad, but the repetitive dialogues about having to seduce a gentleman and get pregnant got me annoyed sometimes, There were no surprises in this book, but it had a couple of good twists that saved the story from being simple and over the top predictable,

Theres a lot of suffering and sadness in this story, that some faithful and hopefully romantic readers might not enjoy, But at the end dont we all love a good HEA that crosses society barriers and overcome giant obstacles for love And what about this cover Incredible! One of my favorite covers this year! I truly recommend you to give this book a chance and add it to your TBR shelf.
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Caroline Broadhurst is a loyal wife and has been since the day she married her MUCH older husband at, Now that she isand he is nearing his end, Mr, Broadhurst desperately wants and heir, After years of being unable to conceive not only with Caroline, but also with his two previous wives, he has a proposal for his dutiful wife, Become impregnated by a well standing gentleman or lose everything that should be rightfully hers once he dies,

This isn't a new concept to period romances, however Katy Madison writes her interpretation with great style and emotion, I enjoyed the characters and the overall read of the book, but I just couldn't get past all the unconsensual fooling around Caroline is forced to do, I understand that it is part of the plot and that she has to endure a certain amount of it to be convincing to her husband, but Caroline spends more time being fondled by these disgusting brutes than she does romancing with our hero Jack Applegate.
Honestly, the romance doesn't even really get going until the last third of the book! For this reason, I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.


There is a lot to like about All About Seduction, It was a fast paced read, with great detail of the time period and well thought out characters, Caroline is not your average wealthy lady, she actually cares about the people who work the cotton mill that makes her and her husband rich, She advocates for the workers and even does her best to keep young children from participating in the difficult and dangerous labor, I really enjoyed this about her character,

I believe most readers will enjoy this book, but may be caught off guard by the indecency that Caroline is forced to endure, There really wasn't enough romantic development between the Jack and Caroline for my taste, but there you have it, This book is an enjoyable read with a sweet ending, but leaves something to be desired in the way of romance, Original review posted at sitelinkRomancing Rakes

Let me preface this review by asking you, who have read this book and loved it, to please don't tear me a new one.
It's not that I didn't like this book, it just started off way too disgusting for me, This is the first time, to my knowledge, that I've read a book with this plot,

Basically, Caroline has been married foryears to Mr, Broadhurst and never once, have they conceived a child, Okay, you're thinking, maybe she's infertile, Nope, Mr. Broadhurst has been married three times and has never once gotten any of his past wives with child, That tells you it's his problem and to top it off, there's suspicion as to what happened to those past wives due to the fact no children were brought forth.


Here's where the ick factor comes in, Mr. Broadhurst writes to Caroline's brother to arrange a party, in which she will seduce one of the gentlemen to have a baby with, He wants an heir to carry on the family name and run the mill, and is willing to claim some other man's child as his own to do so.
Then, I find out that Caroline was married to him when she was, Um, eww. He was old enough to be her grandfather at the beginning of their marriage, I know that this happened during that time period, Fine. But Caroline has been faithful and endured nightly visits foryears and her husband will leave her with nothing if she doesn't agree to have a child with someone else.
Caroline is horrified by this, She can't bring herself to commit adultery and her inner turmoil is apparent when she hesitantly tries to lure a few of the gentlemen into a secret tryst,

And cue in the dashing hero, Jack Applegate, Plot twist! He's a mill worker who has been pining for Caroline since first seeing her stepping down from the carriage to attend church,years ago, Jack wants to make a better life for himself and has a plan, until his leg gets caught in the machinery, His dreams of going to London to present a business plan is put on hold, indefinitely it seems, to recover from the accident,

The accident brings Caroline and Jack closer together yet, they must fight their feelings, A lady of noble blood and a mill worker are not meant to fall in love, He's thinking sexy thoughts about her, which he shouldn't, She's thinking sexy thoughts about him, which she should, There's a lot of will they, won't they but in the end, my will to continue reading this book I was about to stop atpaid off,

At times I wanted Broadhurst to die suddenly, Caroline and Jack to conceive a baby while Broadhurst was on his deathbed, he would change his will and Caroline and Jack would live

happily ever after.
Never have I ever hated a character so much as I have hated Broadhurst, I kept asking why would he do that I understand the need to have an heir, but Broadhurst could have gone back on his deal, gotten someone to kill the gentleman that fathered the baby and thrown Caroline out on the street for adultery, even though he suggested it in the first place.
At other times, I wanted to slap Caroline in the face, shake her and scream "stand up for yourself!" I mean, she did try to but after hearing that her husband may have offed his last two wives, she could have tried to dig up some dirt and blackmail him into changing his will.
I know that's wrong but come on! Wouldn't you have tried to do something Her brother even mentioned some sort of papers their father had, If it was me, I would have wanted to look at those papers,

FAVORITE QUOTE: "She had been bartered, but brides had been bartered since time immemorial, Women of her class had a dynastic duty to uphold, They were brokered for power, for land, and for money, Her upbringing had prepared her for that, Only those with nothing to gain or lose could choose freely, She envied the simplicity of his world, where he could marry for love, " quote subject to change in finished copy


OVERALL: I'm glad I gave this book a chance, In a time of arranged marriages, gaps in social class and money and bloodlines are a social currency, Jack and Caroline are able to overcome those obstacles towards a HEA.
At times, the continuous mention of Caroline not wanting to seduce any of the men made me want to tear my hair out and scream 'Do something about it! Find some dirt on your asshat of a husband!' As for the social class difference between Caroline and Jack and the constant need to point that out and use it as a barrier, was only delaying their happily ever after.
I did feel bad when Broadhurst kicked the bucket and waited for lightning to strike after wishing throughout the book, Okay, but only a little, I will read another book by Ms, Madison.


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