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To Desire a Devil (The Legend of the Four Soldiers) |  | Author: Elizabeth Hoyt
Publisher: Vision
Category: Book
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 6847
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0446406945
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780446406949
ASIN: 0446406945
Publication Date: November 1, 2009
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Product Description
NOTHING IS MORE INTOXICATING-
Reynaud St. Aubyn has spent the last seven years in hellish captivity. Now half mad with fever he bursts into his ancestral home and demands his due. Can this wild-looking man truly be the last earl's heir, thought murdered by Indians years ago?
OR DANGEROUS-
Beatrice Corning, the niece of the present earl, is a proper English miss. But she has a secret: No real man has ever excited her more than the handsome youth in the portrait in her uncle's home. Suddenly, that very man is here, in the flesh-and luring her into his bed.
THAN SURRENDERING TO A DEVIL.
Only Beatrice can see past Reynaud's savagery to the noble man inside. For his part, Reynaud is drawn to this lovely lady, even as he is suspicious of her loyalty to her uncle. But can Beatrice's love tame a man who will stop at nothing to regain his title-even if it means sacrificing her innocence?
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Hoyt doesn't disappoint! March 19, 2010
I. Cespedes (Miami, FL)
If anyone has read the previous three novels in this series, then up to this point we believed that Reynaud St. Aubyn was killed at the hands of the enemy during the battle at Spinners Falls. As it turns out, he wasn't killed but held prisoner by the Indians. After 7 years of captivity, he finally manages to escape and return to England with the intention of reclaiming his old life. He soon learns that his father has died and the title has been passed on to someone else and worse, he can't understand why!
He is a shell of his former self: malnourished, dirty, exhausted and half-crazed. He meets Beatrice, the niece of the current Earl who tries to care for him. Even in this state, he recognizes that there is just 'something' about her. Beatrice is also drawn to him. She has admired him from afar for many years, having fallen in love with a portrait of him that hangs in her home...but could this lunatic really be the man that she's dreamed of all those years?
Reynaud was a difficult character to like at first. I guess you could say I had a love/hate relationship with him. In the beginning, he was cruel and was more of a ticking time bomb than a person, but Beatrice persists knowing that somewhere in there lies the real Reynaud. Beatrice was a lovely character...she was sweet, caring and strong-willed. From the get-go, she wanted Reynaud and that was that!
The thing I liked least about this book was the first intimate encounter between Reynaud & Beatrice. It occurred while she was mourning the loss of a friend so it seemed almost inappropriate to me. Other than that, their love story progressed quite nicely. It was great to see Reynaud soften & open up, letting himself fall in love.
Elizabeth also tied up all those loose ends that remained from the previous books and by the end of the book, ALL the characters were living happily ever after :) Elizabeth has a true talent for historical novels!
wounded tiger March 7, 2010
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Elizabeth Hoyt did a great job keeping me guessing in this short and smoldering romance. Not so much how the story will end if you are as avid a romance novel reader as I am you already know the hero gets the girl, the mystery lays in the story line and trying to put the pieces together as to how Reynaud St. Aubyn got injured, where he had been mark a decade and why upon his return he had such a aggressive revenging character. Entangled in this story is Beatrice Corning, the naive caring character that cannot help but throw herself into the arms of this wounded soldier. The book is a fast pace, which I like, filled with edgy scenes and all too often situations Elizabeth should not have put herself into. It is like trying to help a wounded tiger as Reynaud began to regain his strength and memory, striking out at anyone within reach holding little to no regard even for Beatrice. How could she ever have loved this man and how would she keep her deep secret love for Reynaud from him.
I will have to say the reason for him being missing for the past 7 years was not very believable.
 to desire a devil book January 17, 2010
Esther E. Hall
Wonderful ending to the Legend of the Four Soldiers.
My husband and I love historical novels written in this time period
 A complete letdown January 3, 2010
innocencebereft
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I cannot believe that this book was written by Elizabeth Hoyt! This must've been ghost written (that is what I tell my self). When I encountered my first Elizabeth Hoyt novel, I was blown away by her skill. It was so well written, filled with rich characters and contained so much passion between the main characters. To Desire a Devil appears to have been written using romance novel madlibs.
The writing is not on par with Hoyt's previous works, the characters have no depth and hardly develop throughout the story. Then there is the plotline, which is inconsistently executed and just a bad idea to begin with. There is supposed to be some sort of a mystery being solved, but in all honesty there wasn't any sort of tension in the writing. The way the author conveyed tension was by having the characters randomly whisper things to each other. "'I don't know' Beatrice whispered" or something like that.... I laughed every time. Why were they whispering when they're alone, isolated in a room at the end of every chapter? And the PTSD storyline? A complete mockery.
But, what truly makes this novel a failure in my eyes.... no chemistry between the leads. I could not feel any sort of attraction, much less love, between Beatrice and Reynaud. And that just defies the entire purpose of reading a romance novel. In fact, the best parts of this novel were the little chapter openings that chronicled the goblin king fairytale.
 Good not great read December 29, 2009
JC (California)
I liked reading The Legend of the Four Soldiers series. I felt that I liked his character more in the other books, much like the heroine Beatrice (horrible name) was in love with his portrait. The real man did not live up to expectations. I did like the ending to the mystery which I thought was pretty obvious. I would have liked to have heard more about Reynauld's time in captivity and found it hard to believe that he wasn't with an Indian woman at all during that time. The book as a whole was light on action, but lots of time was spent on them connecting physically, not so much emotionally. I found it hard to believe he would save her as much as she did! A good overall ending to the series but I felt it lost some of the steam from the earlier books.
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