Review: different Victorian romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2013
The Art of Temptation is part of a new era of historic romance that has some spice with your Victorian romance, while not spicy enough to be erotic it is still hot enough to be the Tex-Mex of Victorian romance.Valerie has experienced seven seasons and she is done with the Ton, London and her mother, she has made arrangements to stay with a cousin in Paris.Travis has enjoyed a pretty carefree life until an uncle he didn't know about dies and makes him an Earl, rather than be burdened with the responsibility he runs out on a tour of the continent.With an interesting take on Victorian romance and the origins of the Moulin Rouge Ms. deGrey takes you from England to France then on to Italy and back to France. The story is a bit choppy and a bit campy, I would say that the characters were ratherstereotypical for a romance novel.I liked the secondary characters a great deal with the bohemians, the wishy washy cousin, Travis's jerk of a friend and the evil duo who run the Moulin Rouge.  I would say if you are looking for something different in a historic romance this may be for you.I received this book in exchange for my honest review.