tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post418907052068459249..comments2024-03-28T01:04:21.897-06:00Comments on Gossamer Obsessions: "Slightly Dangerous," by Mary BaloghAnimeJunehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18229748454410488167noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-63081763612073367352010-07-21T13:51:37.843-06:002010-07-21T13:51:37.843-06:00Mary K --> Yup. But they're all good!
Magd...Mary K --> Yup. But they're all good!<br /><br />Magdalen --> By low I meant lower than him. After all, her father had to work for a living! <br /><br />Kaetrin --> I'm looking forward to reading the Simply series, but I'm going to read the one-offs first.<br /><br />Marg --> I had no idea they appeared in later books. Hmmm. <br /><br />Kati --> Well, it was more an objective A than an emotional A - emotionally it was a B+ with the slow pacing.<br /><br />Lusty Reader --> I LOL'd at the fact that he has 7 backup quizzing glasses. And yes, sometimes I wanted to hit Christine for jumping to the worst conclusions about Wulfric every time.AnimeJunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18229748454410488167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-73665521812795077762010-07-21T11:38:43.443-06:002010-07-21T11:38:43.443-06:00i read about 3-4 of the Slightly books before read...i read about 3-4 of the Slightly books before reading the last. just whatever my library had, ive never read the brother who got amnesia at waterloo or the big nosed sister one, Frejya? or something?<br /><br />anywhoo i think that helped me from becoming oversaturated with Bedwyns and BY GOD do i love this book. all of Christines little mishaps and "attention getting" scenes cracked me up, how could you NOT love her?<br /><br />but oh, the two garden scenes at the end, where Christine rejects him and then he comes back. how he memorized every hurtful thing she said, it just made my heart ache. i can see them standing there so plainly in my minds eye. *swoon* <br /><br />PS: his quizzing glass annoyed me, i did not find it endearing or funny<br /><br />PPS: i am of the camp that Jo Beverley's Devlish was a let down at the end of the Malloren family series. i cant remember why, just that i hated it.Lusty Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04035437543878036158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-76489215176433369882010-07-21T10:38:49.781-06:002010-07-21T10:38:49.781-06:00Kaetrin said...
"I read this series and Jo B...Kaetrin said... <br />"I read this series and Jo Beverley's Mallorens around the same time and I (personally) rate Devilish (Rothgar's story) higher if only because he wasn't so much staid, as powerful and a little (but only a little) wicked!"<br /><br />I love Rothgar! Apparently, some people thought Devilish was a let down, but I thought it was great. <br /><br />It looks like I'll have to make the effort with the first seven of the Bedwyns.MaryKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08682701056706320844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-62781826871543718952010-07-21T06:35:15.256-06:002010-07-21T06:35:15.256-06:00I can't even begin to stress how much I adore ...I can't even begin to stress how much I adore this book. I re-read it at least once a year. I adore the thawing of Wulfric. Although, he doesn't so much thaw, and soften just ever so slightly around the edges.<br /><br />And I LOVE that Christine is the "Dangerous" one, what with her impulses and brightness.<br /><br />It's just a sublime reading experience all the way around and remains in my Top 10 romances of all time. I'm so, so glad you enjoyed it! When you said you were reading it, I kept hoping you would!Katihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08178354927628992485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-8517435961290699882010-07-21T02:06:47.905-06:002010-07-21T02:06:47.905-06:00This was actually the one of the first Balogh'...This was actually the one of the first Balogh's I ever read, so I hadn't had the build up over the whole series, and I think that it suffered as a consequence. I think that if I was to reread it I would probably enjoy it more the second time around.<br /><br />If only I hadn't overdosed on the Bedwyn's by having them appear in just about every Balogh book since! At least they aren't in the latest series, which was a welcome change.Marghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13508430635744720721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-91533290583216980252010-07-21T00:16:14.505-06:002010-07-21T00:16:14.505-06:00I read this one ages ago and I have fond memories ...I read this one ages ago and I have fond memories of it. I do like the slow build of knowing the character beforehand and then getting his story. I read this series and Jo Beverley's Mallorens around the same time and I (personally) rate Devilish (Rothgar's story) higher if only because he wasn't so much staid, as powerful and a little (but only a little) wicked! Wulf was so stuffy but I thought that Balogh did well over the course of the series to show that was his personality and it didn't indicate that he didn't feel - it was more that he difficulty expressing himself and he felt (I thought) constrained by his title and his position in the family/responsibility for his siblings etc. Christine was certainly a breath of fresh air and I totally agree with you AnimeJune - she was the perfect foil for him. By the end of the book, it was clear that she "got" him. She wasn't trying to change him (all that much), she'd tease him lovingly about his stuffiness but she loved him just as he is and I enjoyed that part of the story too. <br /><br />There are glimpses of the couple again in the Simply book where Anne Jewel is the heroine - the earlier part of the book takes place in on Wulf's Welsh estate where the family all gather.<br /><br />One of these days I should dig this one out again and have a re-read I think!Kaetrinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16936055488367251592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-43269707629610284852010-07-20T23:01:12.862-06:002010-07-20T23:01:12.862-06:00Slightly Dangerous blew me away -- for all the won...<b><i>Slightly Dangerous</i></b> blew me away -- for all the wonderful things you catalog so well, but also for the emotional impact. Wulfric is on my "omniscient hero" list (with, say, Heyer's Duke of Avon) but Christine doesn't fit any of the pigeonholes he has in his life (or whatever they're called when they're in a dovecote). He figures out what he has to do to win her, but he learns along the way two things: how much he wants her and how little he can be certain he'll get her. He's not a lot less frosty at the end of the book, but his heart beats faster, for sure.<br /><br />Just a tiny quibble. Christine isn't "low born." She's "shabby genteel" -- if I recall correctly, her father was a younger son of minor aristocracy, but with no money ends up the village schoolteacher. He'd have been considered quite respectable by the gentry in the area, and they'd have been invited to all the right parties.<br /><br />Christine marries "up" the first time around, but still not in the upper reaches of the ton. She's perfectly well-bred in genealogy, if not in deportment. What she cannot claim, of course, is to be from Wulfric's class, which is rarefied indeed.<br /><br />By contrast, Aiden's wife is very nearly low born because her father had been a miner who made good. But as Aiden and her brother had served together, there's the feeling that the war equalized their social disparity sufficiently.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-75057072413538808912010-07-20T22:56:22.451-06:002010-07-20T22:56:22.451-06:00So I suppose it's best to read the first 7 boo...So I suppose it's best to read the first 7 books first? :|MaryKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08682701056706320844noreply@blogger.com