Review: Good historical romance. :)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2013
I am very surprised to see that this novel only have four reviews.Callista Higginbotham has been struggling to keep her household together after the death of her father. She is a book dealer and also takes on the job of a library organizer. She didn't really think of the scandal that it would cause being an unchaperoned female in the house of Lord Rexton, but she is already hearing the gossip soon after she arrives. She needs this commission so she has to do the job, but why does her employer have to look so handsome.Dominick Avery, Viscount Rexton is really smart and loves philosophy, but because of his looks he is never taken serious as a scholar. His father told him he would only ever be known for his looks as everyone calls him Lord Adonis because of his extremely good looks. He learns at an early age to adapt to it and soon becomes known as the Master of Love.Dominick and Callista's attraction to each other can't be denied, although her reputation is at stake. Dominick does everything that he can to help silence the rumors that she is his lover all the while that is what he wants her to be. Callista is the only one who sees Dominick for who he really is and intelligent man worthy of affection instead of his false persona of the Lord Adonis or Master of Love.Callista finds out that someone wants to harm Dominick and she will do anything to protect him even if he would hate her for it. Doing this eventually puts her in harms way instead.Master of Love is a good historical romance story with great main characters as well as secondary characters. Callista is a strong heroine and I know back then that it was hard for a women to have any sort of respect for being in a trade even if it was the only way to put food on the table for her family. Callista didn't let it deter her and held her head high even when those would gossip around her. Dominick is sexy and down to earth for a Viscount. He was nice to Billy, the footboy, when most would have thrown him in jail for his disrespectful attitude towards someone above him. He had a hard time showing his true self because he was self conscience about his love for writing philosophy. I felt sorry for him that he couldn't be his true self at the beginning, but you would think that being so rich he wouldn't care what people thought.Two things  that bothered me with this book was why Callista didn't just go and tell Dominick what she suspected about his protégé instead of doing the wild thing that she did. I understand her hesitation and not wanting to falsely accuse the man but still. The next thing was the epilogue, I really just didn't think it was needed. The sex scenes that was in the story were steamy enough without putting something in the epilogue. I just didn't like that that was the way the author chose to end the story.I would recommend this novel for anyone who loves historical romance stories.