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    A Lady Can Never Be Too Curious

    By Mary Wine

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    Beneath the Surface of Victorian Life Lies a Very Different World...

    Hated and feared by the upper classes, the Illuminists guard their secrets with their lives. Janette Aston's insatiable quest for answers brings her to their locked golden doors, where she encounters the most formidable man she's ever met.

    Darius Lawley's job is to eliminate would–be infiltrators, but even he may be no match for Janette's cunning and charm...

    Praise for Highland Heat:

    "Dramatic and vivid...Scorching love scenes threaten to set the sheets aflame."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

    "[The characters] fight just as passionately as they love while intrigue abounds and readers turn the pages faster and faster!"—RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateAug 1, 2012
    ISBN9781402264818
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    A Lady Can Never Be Too Curious
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    Mary Wine

    Acclaimed author Mary Wine has written over 30 works of Scottish Highland romance, romantic suspense and erotic romance. An avid history-buff and historical costumer, she and her family enjoy participating in historical reenactments. Mary lives in Yorba Linda, California with her husband and two sons.

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    • 5/5
      I really liked this book! It had really likable characters, awesome world building, and the romance between the main characters was hot! Even the supporting characters were interesting and well-developed. I read it straight through and loved every minute of it.

      Janette has spent her whole life trying to be the good little girl her father wants her to be, well at least she let's him think she is. She's been secretly reading scientific articles and has been tutored behind his back *gasp*! A love of logic and learning have come to define her, at least secretly. After sneaking into the Illuminist Society's building she finds out that she is a rare pure soul, who can handle the rare deep earth crystals without harm. She can also sense them when they are nearby, putting her in danger from the Illuminist's enemies, the Helikeians. Janette's character grows a lot throughout the book. She has to find the confidence to be an Illuminist, which goes completely against her high-society upbringing.

      Darius Lawley is a Guardian in the Illuminist Society. He questions Janette after she is caught trespassing, and they have some great chemistry right from the start. They have one of those passionate, or should I say argumentative, relationships and it was great fun to watch it play out.

      One of my favorite things about this book is that it has such an amazing world. The Illuminists rely on science and rare earth crystals to power their whole world. Lamps, automatic doors, noiseless carriages, and showers are all used to make their lives easier. Their society treats women as equals and they aren't held to any different standards than men. The larger part of society has shunned the Illuminists for their beliefs, and they tend to keep themselves separate. It was really interesting and I hope to learn even more about it in the next book.

      The only thing I didn't like was the fact that Darius Lawley's past isn't explored more. It's alluded to in the book that Janette should be scared of him, but I don't think that it is was explained well enough. Honestly though, that was only a minor detail. It didn't really take away from my enjoyment of the book, I really liked it! I hope to find out even more in the next book, and I can't wait to read it!

      4 1/2 Stars

      ***Review copy provided by NetGalley for an honest review***
    • 3/5
      This was a bit of early steampunk. Dealing with crystals and a secret society that most look down upon. So they are not secret in that sense but they do not let people in.

      The heroine Jeanette wants more from life, society is strict. She wants to try and wear pants, study and just be free. The Illuminsts are everything she should not want to be. She was a free spirit and I liked her courage.

      Darius is a guardian and looks after his fellow Illuminists. I was a bit on the fence about him. He clearly wanted her, but he did not trust Jeanette and still he did little Darius do the thinking and it just did not feel right to me. So even though he wanted her..I dunno, I did just not warm up. He was so not trusting her and there was one thing he said that just made me angry. He should have known better. But Jeanette at least liked him so I can forgive.

      I most also mention that there were these two side characters that I liked together so I hope they get a book and if so then it will be thrilling.

      I did feel there could have been, well more. But as it was it was a good book. The crystals were cool and I would have liked to learn more.

      There is action, romance, passion, creepy bad guys and wonders to see.
    • 2/5
      Review courtesy of All Things Urban Fantasy.allthingsuf.comAfter struggling with The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series all week, I am coming to the realization that I like steampunk more as a flavor added to other story lines than as a genre all on its lonesome. Gail Carringer’s gorgeous Parasol Protectorate series mixes steampunk with fantasy and regency romance, Meljean Brook’s Iron Seas series is almost indefinable with the gritty mix of apocalypse, technology, and history, and my expectations were high as A LADY CAN NEVER BE TOO CURIOUS started out as light, fun, historical romance with familiar class boundaries being drawn along fanciful technological lines.Wine piqued my interest by reframing the tension between aristocrats and working class from a steampunk perspective (with scientists as social outcasts), and I really wanted to like Janette for her ability to defy convention and social pressures. It quickly became apparent, however, that the romantic elements of A LADY CAN NEVER BE TOO CURIOUS were very “old-school”. As characters, Janette and Darius don’t deviate from their roles of “plucky heroine” and “dominating hero” when interacting with each other, and that dynamic quickly became rather boring. And with a heroine named “Janette”, the hero can’t keep saying, “Damn it!” without it getting very distracting. But those moments of humor were appreciated, more so than the endless refrain of warnings and defiance batted back and forth between the hero and heroine.I’m willing to sacrifice deep characters for chemistry, but that element of A LADY CAN NEVER BE TOO CURIOUS didn’t work for me at all. The first sex scene was a flop, mainly due to some word choice issues (which is nit picky, I admit). But in the second sex scene Darius crossed from alpha to alphole, which killed my interest in the romance once and for all.With the characters that didn’t hold any surprises, sexual chemistry that fizzled, and a rather simplistic steampunk world of magic rocks fueling warm showers and cars, A LADY CAN NEVER BE TOO CURIOUS didn’t meet my expectations. Still, it was well written enough that fans of old-school romance may enjoy this lighter side of steampunk.Sexual Content: Sex scenes.