The principal characters – especially the naughty and wonderful Hugh – are particularly well-realized, and the story itself is compelling, romantic and wholly entertaining. Spencer’s first novel, Dangerous (which I enjoyed, but thought had one too many twists), but this time there’s just enough happening outside of the romance to keep readers engrossed and engaged from start to finish. I picked it up early on a Sunday morning and couldn’t put it down until I finished it later that night. and uncovering the secrets in her cool blue eyes.ĪAR staffers Shannon Dyer, Lisa Fernandes and Em Wittmann read Minerva Spencer’s Barbarous and got together to share their thoughts on the novel.ĮBW: Well ladies, I straight up loved this and would rate it a DIK. His only challenge? Unearthing the enemy who threatens her life. But the prim, almost severe, way she looks at him suggests this might be the one woman who can make him forget all the others. Because he is also the man Daphne has secretly cheated of title, lands, and fortune.ĭaphne Redvers’ distant, untouchable beauty and eminently touchable body are hard enough to resist. And her instant attraction to the notorious privateer is not only wildly inappropriate for a proper widow but potentially disastrous. So the appearance of the sun-bronzed giant with the piratical black eye patch is deeply disturbing to Lady Daphne Davenport.
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