The Sins of Lord Easterbrook

Seven years ago, Leona Montgomery’s sensuality was awoken by a mysterious young adventurer full of dark chaos and sinful inclinations.

When she meets him again, their attraction reignites immediately, but he is much changed. Arrogant, masterful, and determined to seduce her, he now appears to have leashed the chaos and tamed the darkness.

Or has he?

Title: The Sins of Lord Easterbrook

Author: Madeline Hunter

Copyright: 2009
Genre: Regency Historical

Series: Last of the Rothwell Brothers Series. After The Rules of Seduction, Lessons of Desire, and Secrets of Surrender
Pages: 368

Sensuality: NC-17

Content warning: There is a paranormal element that is not treated as paranormal since this is a historical. I usually hate paranormal elements in historicals (e.g. Mine Till Midnight) but the way Hunter does it here worked for me.

Grade: B+

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Meetup with Madeline Hunter

As regular readers of this blog knows, if there is a historical author that languid moi is probably fangurlish for, it’s Madeline Hunter. I haven’t absolutely loved everything she has written (in fact, I was lukewarm on her last two books) but there is something in her writing that always resonate with me, even as I want to strangle the heroine/hero.

Last week, Madeline was kind enough to meet me for coffee and we talked for about 90 minutes about various subjects from 19th Century Macau to the Marquess of Queensbury to the lamented demise of Bantam’s Loveswept line of series contemporary romances to authors and blogs to Iris Johansen’s historicals and to the overall brilliance of Mary Balogh’s traditional regencies, specifically A Precious Jewel. She was pretty much as I expected: straight-shooting and intelligent and introverted.

As for news, well, she wouldn’t tell me much about her next book coming up – The Sins of Lord Easterbrook – beyond what anyone could gleam from the preview of it at the end of Secrets of Surrender. She did add a new excerpt from it on her website which you can find by clicking here.

I did ask her about her next series after this one. She is currently shopping a four book series and she will be staying in the period of the 1820s (sorry, Medieval fans).

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Surfing Report

This is a report of some interesting stuff I have found on the web.

1. First of all, Madeline Hunter has just posted a new excerpt from her upcoming novel Secrets of Surrender (third in the series and coming May 20th) and it’s a doozy. Click here for link. If I hadnt been already been sitting down when I read it, I would have had to afterwards.

It also seems that the cover for it has been revised since the last time I posted it on my blog. It’s now a hideous orange but supposedly the reader can see the title and author’s name better which was the reason for the change in the first place. I much prefer the yellow. You could see the words well enough and using a primary color like yellow is what you should always do from what I was taught in Art. Ever wondered why all the most famous superheroes like Wonder Woman, Superman, Spiderman are in red, blue, and gold (yellow)? Because primary colors catchs the eye better.

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