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    Audiobook10 hours

    Provocative in Pearls

    Written by Madeline Hunter

    Narrated by Polly Lee

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Unabridged, 10 hours

    Read by Polly Lee

    New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter continues her delicious new quartet of regency romances with this novel about the passion that ignites when fate brings two unlikely souls together.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 2, 2010
    ISBN9781101432303
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    Reviews for Provocative in Pearls

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    • 3/5
      One more twist on the 'he wants to and she doesn't' theme that seems to run all too often through romance fiction.Felt rather hastily written. My last Hunter for a while after two disappoiintments in a row.l
    • 5/5
      Wow this was good. Reminiscent of her early medievals, with a heroine who isn't from the ton.

      I was feeling pretty dubious about this later set and had found the first book in "Rarest Blooms" pretty annoying. (I thought the heroine in that was a twit. Hero was ok.)

      But this had a great setup - the heroine had run away on her wedding day and faked evidence that implied she had died.

      I had some reservations about the hero's actions in seducing her because of what he needed and needed to have happen, but Hunter really made it work.

      I'm really looking forward to Hunter'snext book after this.
    • 5/5
      loved this story
    • 3/5
      Good read
    • 3/5
      I really loved Ravishing in Red, the first in the Rarest Blooms quartet, but I admit to feeling tepid about Provocative in Pearls.

      Generally I love stories about couples who are forced into marriage, as Verity and Hawkeswell are. Verity was bullied through the ceremony but after the vows were said and done, she runs away and ends up among the Rarest Blooms. That leaves Hawkeswell, who's badly strapped for cash, in the lurch. Because their marriage is unconsummated he can't access her fortune, but as long as she's presumed to be alive he can't marry anyone else.

      When fate brings Hawkeswell and Verity back into contact, we find out that she's been operating based on a lot of false assumptions. She assumes that Hawkeswell has had access to her vast fortune during the two years she's been gone. She assumes that he's frivolous by nature and needs her money for wasteful luxuries. She assumes that he's in league with her cruel cousin, and that he'd be a controlling, unkind husband who would refuse her any goals and pursuits of her own.

      You know what they say about assumptions? Because that's how I felt about Verity. For the first half of the novel her primary goal is to convince Hawkeswell to grant her an annulment. He's dead broke and getting an annulment would take time, years maybe, during which he'd be living on the knife's edge of poverty. That seems like a lot of ask from him when she can't be bothered to do some basic due diligence, find out who he is or what the marriage she's rejecting would be like.

      For his part, Hawkeswell is determined to make the marriage work. He devises a scheme to seduce Verity, demanding three kisses a day, which reminded me of another book, Thunder and Roses (Signet Historical Romance), which used a kiss-a-day bargain to devastating effect. Hunter suffers from the comparison; the chemistry between Verity and Hawkeswell is not strong, and the kisses don't do much to bridge the gap between them.

      I didn't feel the chemistry between them, and by the end, I still didn't feel like they belonged together.
    • 4/5
      Lord Hawkeswell stumbles upon his wife, Verity, who disappeared two years ago immediately after their wedding ceremony. Verity was forced into the marriage in order to protect the people closest to her but was betrayed when one of them "disappeared" anyways. She tried to fake her death and has been hiding at Rarest Blooms, a successful florist outside of London. The story is pretty typical of the "forced to wed and must learn to love each other" subgenre. The depiction of the unrest among industrial workers in the North of England is interesting but doesn't really get enough development. A good read if you are a fan of Regency Romances, but not one of the best.