Reviews for The Temptress

The average rating for The Temptress based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-04-13 00:00:00 James Webb I am going to write the same thing for the Taggart and Montgomery series of Jude Deveraux. First, I can't believe that I read these books because they are so blatantly bodice rippers (not my style at all). And second, and more importantly, I devoured them all! Here is the scoop: We stopped at a friend's house in Tennessee on the last leg of one of our cross country trips about 11 years ago and I had run out of books. She gave me three of Deveraux's books in the Montgomery series and I kindly took them never expecting to read them (my God the covers alone were ridiculous!). Well, I gave in and read them because I needed something to do on the ride home. By the time we got home, I had already called the library and asked them to reserve all of the Taggart and Montgomery series books they had! I devoured them all and loved them? Here's the funny thing - I have never read any more Deveraux since that time (not even the last Taggart book or the last two Montgomery books). I can still vividly remember scenes from the books I read so many years ago!

Review # 2 was written on 2017-03-18 00:00:00 Reva Schreuer This is the third book I have read by this author, all in this series. While it is odd that each book takes place hundreds of years after its predecessor, her characters are not so surprising. The hero is always an asshole, not like the typical rake; but a real full-of-himself manwhore. He's always been hurt in the past and has a hard time with love, so he just doesn't. Ever. He treats his mate like an object. The heroine is much more likeable. She is not always the prettiest, but she is physically attractive. She is smart and, most importantly, interesting. Therefore, even though the hero does not want to marry her and finds the idea of faithfulness unlikely, he wants her for only himself as a possession to take away the boredom. There is always a love triangle. It's either a more beautiful woman or a man who wants the heroine's money or just a third person of some sort to inspire jealousy. In the end, they are together after much yo-yoing back and forth about her faithfulness/hatred/self-sacrifice and his I want her/I want her not/I want her but not enough. I literally think this review applies to all three of the first books in this series. It was a refreshimg change from my usual at first. Now I just feel like I know what to expect if I give another a try.