Review: JUST COULDN'T GET INTO THIS SERIES
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2013
I have said before I am a Jennifer Blake fan and I am.  BUT, this series is one I really can't get behind as much as I would have like too.  While the Story lines and the potential for a breathtaking, heart throbbing pantie wetting series was there somehow, it just fell flat for me.  I at first thought it was because after the first story I felt bored and restless with the series.  I have said before that I am not a good series reviewer because I know I am easily bored when the story lines are on the same wave length. But I could not resist 4 stories for .99 cents.So with that in mind, before I wrote this review I looked at some of the others who were less than glowing and I have to say that there were several who expressed exactly what I was feeling so here goes with the synopsis of the 4 stories.SILVER TONGUED DEVILAngelica Crew our heroine, betrothed to Francis Laurence, her father's choice of mate, travels with her gambler father aboard an ill fated steamboat on the Mississippi River.  It seems daddy has cheated to win Bonheur a plantation own by the step father of Renald Harden and set in motion a plot of revenge with our lady heroine as the intended target.  From there it is one monstrous problem and misunderstanding after another until we end with final wedded bliss, BLAH, BLAH, BLAh.MIDNIGHT WALTZAgain we have a semi original coupling.  Amalie a past the blush virgin is the arranged bride of Julien, a men who is enarmored of young boys and unable to perform on his wedding night.  BUt, of course his momma has other ideas to secure an heir.  Thus, Cousin Robert takes his place in the marriage bed unbeknownst to Amalie.  The whole thing becomes another victorian tragedy.  Results in Julien's death and final wedded bliss for Amalie and RoberT.ARROW TO THE HEARTThis one starts off really good.  But alas it deteriorates into another cliched cuckolded husband albeit with his knowledge and vigarous encouragement and actual imprisonment of the Katherine Castlereagh and Rowan de Blanc. It goes on from one contrived confrontation to another and ends with the hero and heroines final togetherness,  Yadda Yadda Yadda.TENDER BETRAYALAnother so so rendering.  Melanie Johnson has a fiancee Dom.  Enter Roland Donovan whom her Grandfather has a grudge against, due to a rumor about his war service.  A duel ensues and Grandpa has a heart attack when Roland delopes and refuses to shoot him.  On his deathbed Grandpa forces a promise from Melanie to kill Roland.  What ensues is beyond the pale.  It is a series of missteps, rape, and various other unbelievable occurrences that befall both Melanie and Roland.My advice.  If you like laborious plots and long drawn out and contrived scenes this is it.  I prefer them with more descriptive love scenes and more believable story lines.  So I think that even at this low price I should have given them a pass and continued to like Ms Blake for the usually wonderful author that she is.