{"id":8062,"date":"2012-01-19T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=8062"},"modified":"2012-01-19T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:00:25","slug":"review-a-lady-awakened-by-cecelia-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/review-a-lady-awakened-by-cecelia-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Lady Awakened by Cecelia Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"border: double; border-color: #000000; padding-right: 15px;\"><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3261\" style=\"border-image: initial; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"onlavender\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/aladyawakened.jpg?resize=220%2C359\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"312_winter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/312_winter.png?resize=57%2C43\" alt=\"\" width=\"57\" height=\"43\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #006666; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>A Lady Awakened<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Author:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceciliagrant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecelia Grant<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Random House \/ Bantam<br \/>\n<strong>Pub. Date:<\/strong> December 27, 2012<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0553593839<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong> 368<br \/>\n<strong>Digital Price:<\/strong> $7.99<br \/>\n<strong>Print Retail Price:<\/strong> $7.99<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0553593838\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thesea0f-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN= 0553593838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a> ~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/lady-awakened-cecilia-grant\/1102790073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a> ~ <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/a-lady-awakened\/id441017044?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBookstore<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. Or rather, a daring plan to conceive. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a wicked reputation, and offers a strictly business proposition: a month of illicit interludes . . . for a fee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Theophilus Mirkwood ought to be insulted. Should be appalled. But how can he resist this siren in widow\u2019s weeds, whose offer is simply too outrageously tempting to decline? Determined she\u2019ll get her money\u2019s worth, Theo endeavors to awaken this shamefully neglected beauty to the pleasures of the flesh\u2014only to find her dead set against taking any enjoyment in the scandalous bargain. Surely she can\u2019t resist him forever. But could a lady\u2019s sweet surrender open their hearts to the most unexpected arrival of all . . . love?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a person with opinions. I don\u2019t apologize for that; I know what I like and what I don\u2019t like, and I don\u2019t dither around trying to decide. People who shilly-shally, who can\u2019t make up their minds annoy me.<\/p>\n<p>And that, dear readers, is why I am absolutely flummoxed by<em><strong> Cecilia Grant\u2019s<\/strong><\/em> debut novel, <strong>A Lady Awakened<\/strong>. The sad fact is, I can\u2019t decide whether I love this book or whether I hate it. For a person who prides herself on her snap judgments, this is an odd and uncomfortable state of being.<\/p>\n<p>The story is straightforward. Martha Russell\u2019s husband has died, leaving her childless and, as a consequence, soon-to-be homeless. Her husband\u2019s heir is lurking in the wings, waiting only for confirmation that Martha is not pregnant before he swoops in to turn her out and take over the property. When Martha, a very proper woman who devotes herself to helping the less fortunate, discovers that the heir is a lascivious wretch who has ruined several servants in the past, she resolves to block his inheritance. How? By giving birth to a boy, of course. Martha goes to the new rake in town, a ne\u2019er-do-well nobleman, and hires him as a \u2013 well, lets\u2019 be frank! \u2013 as a sperm donor. Because this is a romance, you know that Martha and her stud, the unfortunately-named Theophilus Mirkwood, will end up happily-ever-after, and all that. Which they do, with some fairly satisfying twists and turns that wrap up loose ends.<\/p>\n<p>But somehow, the story just didn\u2019t work for me as a devotee of historical romance. Martha, prim and pious to an uncomfortable degree, didn\u2019t seem the type to commit not only fraud but adultery. And it is particularly joyless adultery, as Martha does not enjoy the physical act; her only interest is, as she puts it Mirkwood\u2019s \u201cseed.\u201d Mirkwood, by contrast, is a nobleman of the frat-boy mold, only out for whatever fun and games he can find, ready to hire himself out as a prostitute because his father has banished him to the family\u2019s country estate.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t like either of the main characters, and though they do, as you would expect, learn from each other\u2019s approach to life and become more three-dimensional, it was hard to keep reading in the early pages. In many ways, the book read more like a literary fiction work \u2013 all about unhappy people in difficult situations. Call me shallow, but when I read romance, that\u2019s not what I\u2019m looking for. If I wanted to hear about people I don\u2019t like having unpleasant sexual relationships, I would still be a divorce attorney!<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the book is beautifully written. Ms. Grant has a flair for the secondary characters: the kind churchman who wants to leave his profession, the bitter, poverty-stricken and overwhelmed mother of a tenant family, and the best literary pig since Charlotte spun a web for Wilbur. Her research was solid, her descriptive language was lyrical, and her voice was clear and enjoyable. I have to say, the story was believable, and it took some of my favorite tropes (the rake and the reformer, the childless widow, and so forth) and gave them truly innovative twists. But, judging <strong>A Lady Awakened<\/strong> as a romance, I\u2019m not completely satisfied.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">3.5 (Good) <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heat-Level: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5 (Scorching)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by<\/em> <strong> Donna<\/strong><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-8062\" data-postid=\"8062\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-8062 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lady Awakened Author: Cecelia Grant Publisher: Random House \/ Bantam Pub. 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