Review: 007
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2014
Rebecca is a spy for the British government during the Napoleonic wars, who becomes entangled, first professionally, later personally, with a member of the British nobility.Rebecca is smart, assertive, and fearless. She is also beautiful. She is a mater spy who can read a person like a book, assess a dangerous situation clearly, formulated a sound plan, and attain her objective. She finds that her skills are useful in her personal life, too. Dirk is an inhibited, duty-bound, traditional, stiff-upper-lip aristocrat who is attracted first by Rebecca’s beauty and later by winsome personality. There is a traitor in the Intelligence Service and Rebecca’s life is in danger. Dirk is assigned to protect her. He falls for her and he falls hard.I adored Rebecca. Any man with good sense would fall in love with her without hesitation.I know that I was supposed to like Dirk, but I couldn’t. His insistence on controlling a woman like Rebecca, giving her instructions, issuing commands about what she WILL do, while probably an accurate picture of a nineteenth century British aristocrat, comes across as arrogance to modern ears. Several times, I wanted Rebecca to throttle him, and I suspect that she could have done so had she chosen to do it.My Lady, The Spy is a perfect light romance. It is sexy and funny and, in addition, the story is entertaining, a feature that romances often lack. It reminds of a James Bond movie when Roger Moore played 007. In those movies there was always a serious crisis; there were always beautiful, sexy women; and Bond always seemed to be about to laugh at what he was doing and at what was going on.I highly recommend this book!David Burnett for The Kindle Book Review.I received a copy of the book on exchange for a fair and honest review.