{"id":1398,"date":"2009-04-28T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2009-04-28T07:59:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T12:59:15","slug":"an-indecent-proposition-emma-wildes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"An Indecent Proposition ~ Emma Wildes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1397 alignleft\" title=\"indecent-proposition\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/indecent-proposition.jpg\" alt=\"indecent-proposition\" width=\"174\" height=\"280\" \/><em>It&#8217;s the talk of the town. London&#8217;s two most notorious rakes have placed a very public wager on which of them is the greatest lover. But what woman of beauty, intelligence, and discernment would consent to judge such a contest? Lady Carolyn Wynn is the last woman anyone would expect to step forward. But if the men keep her identity a secret, she&#8217;ll decide who has the most finesse between the sheets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To everyone&#8217;s surprise, however, what begins as an immoral proposition turns into a shocking lesson in everlasting love&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve read an historical romance novel. So what made me pick this one up? Well&#8230;Publisher&#8217;s Weekly gave it a starred review <em>and<\/em> chose it as a Pick of the Week. The P.W. review of the novel went so far as to say that Wildes &#8220;provides a spectacular and skillfully handled story that stands head and shoulders above the average historical romance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And you know what? I quite enjoyed the time I spent in the company of the Devilish Duke of Rothay, Nicholas Manning.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>An Indecent Proposition<\/em> you&#8217;re actually getting two love stories; I found one more engaging than the other, but only slightly, and the characters&#8217; varying chapters fueled the quick pace of the novel. The wager was a nice premise, but what it helped reveal &#8211; an abusive marriage, a young heartbreak, and the pain of letting love go &#8211; made the story more than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the talk of the town. London&#8217;s two most notorious rakes have placed a very public wager on which of them is the greatest lover. But what woman of beauty, intelligence, and discernment would consent to judge such a contest? Lady Carolyn Wynn is the last woman anyone would expect to step forward. But if&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-my","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}