A Talent for Sin Book

When I read the synopsis for A Talent For Sin, I was hooked. It is about a thirty-one year old three times married widow who is having a luscious love affair with a man seven years younger than she is. I am all for the older woman/younger man love stories. And what makes this one even better is that that the younger man, Lord Peter St. Johns loves Lady Violet Carrington desperately that nothing else but marriage will do for him.

Violet doesn't want to get married. She has been there three times and all these marriages were less than ideal. She also can't have children and to marry a man like Peter who is younger and needs heirs is unacceptable. Violet has quite the reputation for taking lovers and living life by her own rules. But Peter won't be denied and will have Violet as his wife.

Can we saw swoon? This is exactly the type of romance I want to read! I was riveted for the first one-hundred pages, but then the story quickly changed to one that made me go "huh?". A Talent for Sin became clichéd. Violet has a brother who owes money to a nasty fellow. He was the reason Violet ended up marrying her much older first husband because of the debts he owed. Violet has a younger sister who is a twit and tries to seduce Peter. Violet keeps telling Peter to lay off the marriage proposals, but she still wants his body. Peter walks around moping because his love won't marry him. But they still have some hot sex everywhere they can. Violet decides to sacrifice herself to save her sister from a horrible marriage because her brother is a dimwit with money and feels he is owed something. My last straw was when Violet decides the only way to save her family's good name is for Peter to marry her twit of a sister! UGH.

I wonder if Lisa only read the first one-hundred pages like I did? If so, then I can see why she would be captivated and felt that A Talent For Sin is an emotional experience. Unfortunately the remaining two-hundred plus pages were a big let down.