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A Maiden Lane Novel – Book I
Elizabeth Hoyt
Piatkus (Little, Brown)
2 December 2010/ ISBN 0749954558
Historical Romance / 1737 London
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
Widow Temperance Dews runs a foundling home with her brother Winter,
and is finding that the rent is due and there is no money left.
Salvation comes at the last minute in the unlikely shape of notorious
rake Lazarus Huntingdon, Lord Caire. He wants her to act as his
guide through the slums of St Giles where a killer lurks, whom he
wishes to catch. Everybody knows Lord Caire’s bad reputation,
but Temperance has little choice but to comply.
If you like plenty of spicy sex in your romances you will find it
in here. You will also find a mystery as the pair trawls the mean
streets of St Giles for a brutal killer, and a romance, as Temperance
and Lazarus fall for each other. The 1730s is not a decade often
featured in historical novels of any kind, so it is rather a treat
to encounter it for a whole trilogy of books. This book does have
an early 18th century feel about it, although if this is your main
reason for reading it, I felt it could have been about any decade
in the early to middle part of the century. Instead read it for
the story of a woman coming to terms with her wanton side, a man
trying to discover what love is, the sizzling sex (and it does sizzle)
and all the other aspects of the plot. At the end many things are
still unresolved, leaving something of a cliff-hanger to carry over
into the next book, whose heroine we have already met. Some parts
of the story were rather uneven and contradictory, but this aside,
anybody who enjoys this type of thing is sure to lap it up.
Reviewer's
Note: Plenty of sex
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