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    Vixen in Velvet

    By Loretta Chase

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    From the Diary of Leonie Noirot: The perfect corset should invite its undoing . . .

    Lethally charming Simon Blair, Marquess of Lisburne, has reluctantly returned to London for one reason only: a family obligation. Still, he might make time for the seduction of a certain redheaded dressmaker—but Leonie Noirot hasn't time for him. She's obsessed with transforming his cousin, the dowdy Lady Gladys, into a swan.

    Leonie's skills can coax curves—and profits—from thin air, but his criminally handsome lordship is too busy trying to seduce her to appreciate her genius. He badly needs to learn a lesson, and the wager she provokes ought to teach him, once and for all.

    A great plan, in theory—but Lisburne's become a serious distraction and Leonie's usual logic is in danger of slipping away as easily as a silk chemise. Could the Season's greatest transformation be her own?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 24, 2014
    ISBN9780062098269
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    Loretta Chase

    Loretta Chase has worked in academe, retail, and the visual arts, as well as on the streets—as a meter maid—and in video, as a scriptwriter. She might have developed an excitingly checkered career had her spouse not nagged her into writing fiction. Her bestselling historical romances, set in the Regency and Romantic eras of the early nineteenth century, have won a number of awards, including the Romance Writers of America’s RITA®. For more about her past, her books, and what she does and doesn’t do on social media, please visit her website. LorettaChase.com

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      Following her sisters' marriages, Leonie Noirot is focused on the continued success of the dress shop they founded together. As such, she has little time for flirtation and even less for seduction. Nevertheless, Simon Blair, the criminally handsome Marquess of Linsburne, is proving to be a dangerous distraction and Leonie soon finds herself struggling to resist his considerable charms.

      Despite the excellent potential inherent in this series, none of the stories have lived up to expectations and Vixen in Velvet is just as disappointing.

      Much like the first two books, too much attention is paid to descriptions of clothing. Moreover, this installment has the added problem of incessant, nonsensical conversations and endless recitals of ridiculous and painfully bad poetry. Yes, Swanton is a truly terrible poet, but is it really necessary to prove how awful he is again and again …

      Leonie and Simon's chemistry is only so-so although their romance does pick up in the 2nd half of the story. The secondary romance involving Swanton and Gladys is sorely underdeveloped and it is difficult to accept that he would become obsessed with her voice and fall in love with her so quickly even though he has barely seen or even spoken to her for most of the book.

      The minor mystery plot is intriguing, but also lacks any real tension and the villains get off too lightly.

      All in all, the story is too slow, the romance it too tepid and the mystery is too mundane. This is not a book or a series that I can recommend.
    • 3/5
      A perfectly nice historical romance during a week when I did not have a lot of emotional or intellectual energy to give. I wish the author had developed the relationship better, and the hero could have used some dimension, but the ongoing references to the godawful poetry that was very of the moment (including excerpts from some really terrible poems from magazines of the era) were unique and super entertaining. Nothing out of the historical romance norm, but really rather lovely overall.
    • 4/5
      2nd read- I like that the heroine works for a living rather than being a titled lady, and that she's good at her work, and doesn't just toss it aside when a handsome man comes along. I also like how both of their affections creep up on them.
    • 5/5
      I've had this book on my reader for a while and for some reason didn't get to it. I'm glad that I finally did. Simon Blair and Leonie Noirot are a wonderful couple. Simon is bored and looking for a fling before he returns to his home in Europe. Leonie is a practical business woman running a dress shop now that her sisters have both married. She runs the business side of things and Simon is fascinated right from the start by her logic and aptitude with numbers.There are some side plots involving Simon's cousin, a horribly bad poet, but the main story is Simon and Leonie's and I found it very enjoyable. Another fine book from Ms. Chase.
    • 4/5
      If you’ve read the other titles in Chase’s Dressmakers series you’ve been looking forward to the romance of the last DeLacey sisters. This title does not fail to deliver. However, be warned this is not the last title in the series.
    • 4/5
      The third and final novel in Chase's Dressmakers series. Leonie Noirot has been keeping her family's dressmaking shop going since her sisters married into the British nobility. The shop is important to her as a connection to their aunt, who saved them from the streets, and also because Leonie is a born businesswoman. Lord Lisburne is trying to keep his cousin, an immensely popular, starry-eyed poet, out of trouble and entanglements. Leonie and Lisburne meet at an art exhibition and they fall immediately into lust. Of course there are complications.Chase writes smart, witty romance novels with engaging characters. This one is no exception.
    • 4/5
      This was q quick book to read and enjoyable but I didn't like it as much as other books by Chase. I had a hard time picking out the year in which it was set, the characters were not as complex as characters in a lot of her other books, and although there was humor, not as much as some of her other books. Using a seamstress as the heroine was fresh but it hard to visit that a high member of the aristocracy would marry someone so many classes below. Of course, that made the lack of a firm timeline even more annoying. I did like the way Gladys was handled.