Review: Violet Is No Wilting Flower
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
I reviewed this book 4 days ago based only on the beginning and because I didn't see myself changing my idea on that. I now can tell you I had to change my review. I decided to keep an open mind and just read not comparing it to my normal go to's.Ava Rothcastle is married to the man of her dream's, life is good as her and her husband, Christian, have the blessed news that she is 4 months with child. The only thing missing for her is her brother Liam, the Earl of Windbury. How can she have all this happiness and raise her child without them knowing their uncle? In desperation to repair the feud between her husband and brother she has her husband seek out a courtesan to seduce his secrets and report back to them.Violet was a very discreet courtesan and so they offer her 3,000 pounds. She has a long sought after dream of her own and 3,000 pounds would make it a reality. She agrees and with her friend Olivia takes off to Bath in search of Liam.Liam has numbed himself from any possible emotion to protect himself from being hurt again. The pain he has suffered left him with scars on the inside and outside and thoughts of suicide.It is Violet who brings his feelings slowly back from the dead and even though she thinks that by sharing her pain with him he will trust her. She is the one deceived as by sharing her heart with him she's unknowingly giving it away for good.The book has a lot of sex scenes that are both erotic, and intimate. The author really pulls you in with her detail and even though the heroin was a courtesan it really didn't bother me as much as I thought. Once her story and nature was revealed she was the perfect heroin. I think for people who like to read books period correct this book might not be what they would want to read.*******SPOILER*******An Earl marrying a courtesan is not reality and the language was modern day. I even have to say a few scenes that are a bit 50 shades of Grey I'm not sure would have taken place in those days. I easily over looked them as I enjoyed the sensuality to the story.