Review: The Libertine Learns to Love.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2013
Another smart, very sexy, sophisticated Georgian romance from Victoria Vane.  Reading one of her books is kind of like watching one of those sexy Georgian movies of a few years ago, likeDangerous Liaisons [Blu-ray] orValmont, although, unlike those movies,  her books supply readers with a HEA.  Our hero here, Hadley Blanchard,  is a jaded libertine whose title and property were taken away by the British government because his late father, who committed suicide,  was blamed for unscrupulous activity during the South Sea Bubble.Forced to spy for the government, Hadley lived a dissolute life on the Continent and has now returned to England, set on getting back what is rightfully his.  Well, this will involve the seduction of a young, innocent heiress and a lot of dealings with conniving secondaries.  So you know where this is going.  There are lots of unscrupulous, deceiving, manipulative people here and a few good ones.  There's the requisite redemption of the jaded rake by the innocent maiden, but it's done very nicely.In addition, there's lots of accurate historical detail about politics and life in the 1700s.  Vane is very good at putting the reader right there in her setting.  There's great atmosphere.  And lots of steamy sex.  I'm not all that fond of quite so much sex in my stories but it was not at all off-putting for me.  I've read almost all Vane's Kindle offerings and have enjoyed them all.