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    Last Night's Scandal

    By Loretta Chase

    3.5/5

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    Peregrine Dalmay, Earl of Lisle, may have survived the deadly perils of Egypt, but back in Regency London, he faces the most dire threat yet: his irrational, emotional family...and the completely uncontrollable Miss Olivia Wingate-Carsington!
    Descended from a line of notorious—but very aristocratic—adventurers, Olivia has a long history of driving Peregrine to distraction, and her debut into polite society hasn't lessened her flair for drama, or her ability to drag him into her scandalous schemes.
    All Peregrine wants to do is escape back to his research and the lesser evils of poisonous snakes and tomb robbers, but his family has guilted him into an impossible mission in the Scottish wilds; and Olivia—who is keenly aware that a respectable future of marriage and rules and propriety looms—decides that accompanying him will be the perfect chance for one last adventure. Besides, she really, only wants to help.
    Which is why Lisle and Olivia find themselves in a gloomy Scottish castle, inhabited by grumpy servants, spiteful ghosts, and craven murderers…and possibly the greatest peril of all: the wayward commands of their very unruly hearts!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNYLA
    Release dateJul 27, 2010
    ISBN9781625176714
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    Loretta Chase

    Loretta Chase has worked in academe, retail, and the visual arts, as well as on the streets—as a meter maid—and in video, as a scriptwriter. She might have developed an excitingly checkered career had her spouse not nagged her into writing fiction. Her bestselling historical romances, set in the Regency and Romantic eras of the early nineteenth century, have won a number of awards, including the Romance Writers of America’s RITA®. For more about her past, her books, and what she does and doesn’t do on social media, please visit her website. LorettaChase.com

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    • 3/5
      I usually love Loretta Chase's books. This one was very disappointing. The two main characters, Daphne and Peregrine spend the first two-thirds of the book trying to convince themselves that they're not right for each other despite having multiple episodes where they are attracted/sexually attracted to each other. The repetition was boring. The last third of the book actually was readable -- it had action, humor, and movement in the relationship. If I hadn't been already familiar with her other books, I would never read another one after this one.
    • 5/5
      I love Loretta Chase and this doesn't disappoint. The story of Olivia and Lisle from Lord Perfect.
    • 3/5
      This was a bit slow moving at points, and the characters bickered and were childish more than I care for. I liked how they appreciated genuine qualities of the other though and each used their personal strengths to solve problems.
    • 5/5
      I love the way this book echoes Lord Perfect: the road story, the treasure hunt, and the bickering and friendship between Olivia and Lisle. This time they are all grown up, though, and it is fun to read how their friendship develops into something more.
    • 2/5
      Although I love a good hero as much - sometimes more - than the next girl, it's really the heroines who make or break stories for me. The most delicious hero in the world doesn't mean crap if he's with a TSTL heroine. Not only do I hate the heroine, but I start to question the hero..what's wrong with him that he's with this awful girl? What does he see in her?

      As always Chase's writing is fabulous. She really excels at dialogue and creating beautiful imagery with her words. I kept reading right up until the end, hoping Olivia would be redeemed, or show some type of growth. Unfortunately that didn't happen. Even Chase's beautiful writing isn't enough for me to recommend this book.
    • 4/5
      Olivia sometimes got on my nerves, but on the whole was glad to see the grown up children of a much loved previous book.

      I particularly liked the handling of the hero's toxic family - and the recognition that there can be major dysfunction and unhealthy relationships without evil.
    • 4/5
      This is probably my favorite of the quartet, Olivia and Lisle are great together. Lots of temper, some genuine friendship, and I feel like both halves of the equation did some growing up in the book.
    • 4/5
      Loretta Chase is easily becoming my new favorite historical romance writer. Her heroines are always awesome and her heroes aren't obnoxious alpha male types. Plus she writes about Egypt. I love Egypt!
    • 4/5
      Loretta Chase has written some of my favorite romance novels, and I think she deserves her fantastic reputation. Last Night's Scandal is good - I don't think that Loretta Chase is capable of writing a bad novel - but it's probably my least favorite of her books. If I hadn't seen her name on the cover, I wouldn't have guessed that she wrote it.

      But it might just be me. I've discovered that I really don't like romance novels where the characters fall in love before the book starts, and that's what we have here. The main characters of LAST NIGHT'S SCANDAL - Olivia and Lisle - were secondary characters in another novel of Chase's that I didn't particularly love (that's the worst thing I can say about her), LORD PERFECT. They were children in the earlier novel, and their youthful escapades sparked a relationship which blossomed into love before LAST NIGHT'S SCANDAL even starts.

      So the conflict in LAST NIGHT'S SCANDAL is that Olivia and Lisle need to admit that they're meant for one another. Olivia loves Lisle too much to leg-shackle him; she thinks he belongs in Egypt, and she doesn't want to play second-fiddle to his archeological excavations. Lisle loves Olivia, but he's afraid that she's too fickle and chaotic to build a life with. He also can't imagine giving up his passion for archeology.

      It's kind of obvious from that brief description that Lisle underestimates Olivia. While Olivia has been nursing this epic passion, cherishing every crumb that Lisle sends her way and doing what she can to smooth his path in England while he's off having fun in Egypt, Lisle hasn't been nearly as devoted. He spends a lot of the novel dismissing her thoughts and ideas, and kind of belittling her. It's clear that he's scared of his own feelings, and that she's been the only girl for him all along, but I was angry at him for a good chunk of the book.

      If this kind of plot appeals to you - the kind where the whole novel concerns an established relationship - LAST NIGHT'S SCANDAL is a good read. Saying it's my least favorite Loretta Chase still leaves it head and shoulders above most other romance novels.
    • 3/5
      This was a nice comfort read. Olivia’s letters with the underlining and the unnecessary capital letters were hilarious in Lord Perfect and just as hilarious here. She was a bit annoying at times, but my annoyance as a reader probably paralleled Lisle’s. And just as he later discovered and came to appreciate how her madcap plans actually had a good rationale, I also felt less irritated with her as the story progressed.

      The one thing that Ms. Chase could learn from authors like Lisa Kleypas or Julia Quinn is how to carry over characters from previous books. No, she doesn’t have to devote substantial subplots and pages throughout the book to them, but she could still throw us readers a bone; let us know what’s new with them. Instead, she’ll allude to Bathsheba or to Rupert and Daphne, but in a way that doesn’t take advantage of those glimpses. It’s a shame because it’s a credit to her that she’s created lovable characters about whom I'm still interested. So, of course, I get frustrated when their appearances in the new book only amount to standing in the background of some scene as cardboard cutouts, so to speak, for the main characters.
    • 2/5
      A bit meh for me. 2.5 stars. Maybe I was in the wrong headspace but I just didn't connect and the book felt "thin" to me. Not my fave Chase sadly.
    • 3/5
      A run of the mill romance about childhood friends from an earlier Chase book. At times the heroine was more annoying than I could stand and manipulative but I thought the hero had a lot of promise.
    • 4/5
      Olivia Wingate-Carsington (first seen in Lord Perfect has grown from a harum-scarum girl to a scandalous, and very beautiful, young woman. Her old friend and semi-cousin, Lisle, home from Egypt for a visit, is unable to resist her charms. But they both know that they would make a terrible match.Good, but Chase has written better.