ENCHANTING THE LADY

Author: Kathryne Kennedy ISBN: 0505527502 1/2008 HISTORICAL/PARANORMAL Publisher: DORCHESTER
Time Period: Victorian - 1882 London

In a world where magic ruled everything, Felicity Seymour couldn’t perform even the simplest spell. If she didn’t pass her testing, she’d lose her duchy—and any hope of marriage. But one man didn’t seem to mind her lack of dowry: a darkly delicious baronet who managed to scare away the rest of London’s Society misses. Sir Terence Blackwell knew the enchanting woman before him wasn’t entirely without magic. Not only could she completely disarm him with her gorgeous lavender eyes and frank candor, but her were-lion senses could smell a dark power on her—the same kind of relic-magic that had killed his brother. Was she using it herself, or was it being used against her? One needed a husband, and the other needed answers. But only together could they find the strongest magic of all: true love.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

I see ENCHANTING THE LADY being adapted to a screenplay as a movie for teens—minus the sex, of course. The author is gifted at creating illusions and it does boast a lion (pretty hot hero, actually) and witch, after all. So, as a fantasy romance story I enjoyed it. But the heroine is gullible to the extreme, and that always distracts me from what should be a better story.

I find it hard to get past the idea that the heroine never suspects her aunt and uncle could be up to no good. The derogatory comments and shameful way they treat her would surely give a monkey an inkling that they are hiding something. Seriously, I thought about counting just how many headaches her aunt claims without the heroine being at least concerned enough to check on her herself. It is most annoying.

So, despite some great imagery writing and magnificently detailed scenes, it is so distracting to read about the naivety of the heroine, that it overshadows what I wish I could say is a great read.

Shannon Johnson