| The Edge of Desire (Bastion Club Novel) | 
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Sales Rank: 21533
Category: Book
Author: Stephanie Laurens
Publisher: Avon
Studio: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Label: Avon
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0061246360
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780061246364
ASIN: 0061246360
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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Product Description
They proved their bravery fighting for His Majesty's Secret Service and were rewarded with brides of great beauty and breeding. But one member of the Bastion Club has remained a bachelor . . . until now. "Christian, I need your help. There is no one else I can turn to . . . L." When Christian Allardyce, 6th Marquess of Dearne, reads those words, his world turns upside down. Lady Letitia Randall is a woman like no other, and the day he left her behind to fight for king and country was the most difficult of his life. He never forgot the feel of her lips against his, but never expects to see her again. Yet now she seeks his help, and Christian knows he will not resist her plea. Letitia believes that Christian abandoned her when she needed him most, and she hates to call on his aid. But to clear her brother's name, she has sworn to use every weapon at her command, even if it means seducing her ex-lover. Yet all the while, Christian is waging a war of his own?a campaign of pure pleasure and sweet revenge that will take them both beyond the edge of desire.
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 This book DRAGS December 16, 2008
I love to read and can't get more than 100 pages into the book. So far I don't even remotely like the characters and it is just cumbersome to read.
 Not even close to a Great Read December 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked this up before a weekend when I was finally going to be kid free with my hubbie gone, I thought I'd settle in for a good read. I typically read a book in a little under 12 hours. This one has been sitting in my drawer for over 3 weeks now. Maybe it was the innundation of sex scences and lack of character development. It might also be that Letitia is annoyingly stubborn, completely unrealistic and there was no real emotion other than the "Vaux" temper (which was mentioned OVER and OVER and OVER). I was highly disappointed. I'll take a J.Q. (even her first books) over this ANY day.
 excellent November 12, 2008
Stephanie Laurens is an intelligent writer who holds your interest while keeping the romance alive. I recommend the complete Bastion Club series.
Not so great... November 7, 2008
I am usually a huge Stephanie Laurens fan. However, in this one book, I am not.
The female character is very hard to like. She is made out to be highly rude and obnoxious. The whole "Vaux" mentality to me makes her very unlikable.
Also, the thousands of references to "the Vaux" got really old by about the 12th page. I almost didn't finish the book I was so disappointed.
So, pick up anyone of her other books and you will have a great read. This one, not so much.
Disappointing November 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a long-time fan of Stephanie Laurens, I have read all the Bastion Club books out of a sense of loyalty but I'm glad this one is the next to last as the slow pace, one-dimensional characters and obvious plot devices are not consistent with her better writing elsewhere.
Like another reviewer, I thought the sex scenes were way too long and boring. Even more boring were the constant, and I do mean constant, thoughts of the hero and heroine about their willingness or unwillingess to cede control to the other. Enough already! The worst was the structure of the last two-thirds of the book: the hero and heroine go out to interview actors in the drama, then come back to repeat it all to the Bastion Club members, then they all discuss what they have just learned, then they say what needs to be done next, then they do it, then recount it....etc. You get the picture, repetitious beyond belief. At times, I thought I was reading Dickens who was paid by the word.
I thought the information about Dalziel at the end was one of the few redeeming elements of the book; regular readers have been waiting long enough to find this out! On the other hand, I wasn't able to buy into the conspiracy of silence about him which, as described, reminded me of the prohibition against saying the name of G-d in some religions. As it turned out, what we find out at the end doesn't seem to be consistent with that great and deep veil of secrecy. But perhaps the last book in the series (due out in fall 2009) will clarify this point.
Bottom line: Save your money and read the story of Devil in the Cynster books (the best of the lot, in my humble opinion).
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