This month, we’re going Old Skool with our Book Club Pick, with Amanda Quick’s Scandal, one of the first romances I read. I remember seeing this one so clearly on the shelf and checking it out of the library multiple times. When I announced it last night at the book club chat with Jennifer Crusie, many people were most squeeful about it. This is going to be SO fun.
Not familiar with Scandal? Here, be tempted by this: From a stately country house in Hampshire to the dazzling drawing rooms of London society comes an exquisite tale of an elfin beauty, a vengeful lord, and a wild, sweet love that is sheer poetry.
With her reputation forever tarnished by a youthful indiscretion, lovely Emily Faringdon is resigned to a life of spinsterhood—until she embarks on an unusual correspondence and finds herself falling head over heels in love. Sensitive, intelligent, and high-minded, her noble pen pal seems to embody everything Emily has ever dreamed of in a man. But Simon Augustus Traherne, the mysterious Earl of Blade, is not at all what he seems.
Driven by dark, smoldering passions and a tragic secret buried deep within his soul, Blade has all of London cowering at his feet, but not Emily . . . never Emily. For even as she surrenders to his seductive charms, she knows the real reason for his amorous suit. And she knows that she must reach the heart of this golden-eyed dragon before the avenging demons of their entwined pasts destroy the only love she has ever known.
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Jane from Dear Author is going to join me in the book club chat – date to be determined – and we’ll talk about this book, as well as other older romances that never lose their lustre and power to charm us. I love this book and I’m so happy it’s been released digitally and is still in print in paperback so we can enjoy it. I’m aiming to have the book club chat in the third week of December, but tell me – before Christmas, or in the week between Christmas and New Year? What’s your preference?
I cannot wait to hear what you think of this book, or, if you’ve already read it, what you thought the second, third, fourth or fifth time around.
Have read two Amanda Quick books back then, it didn’t quite tickle my fancy. So by your recommendation, of course I’d look for this one! Would love to have this chat in the week between Christmas and New Year. :]
Oooooh, fun times ahead! I have always loved Amanda Quick.
Oh I’m excited about this, I haven’t read it before and it’s been on my to read list for a long time.
I can’t wait either. Definitely one of my favorite Amanda Quick novels. I loved Simon!
I am SO BEHIND on reading. I missed the Iron Duke frenzy, I know I’m missing at least one from Zoe Archer’s Blades of Rose… and who could resist the lure of Organzasm? It would be hard to choose but I’d figure out some way. 🙂
I cut my teeth on AQ, as well! I am almost positive I have this lying around in one of the reissue double editions with another “S” title…Surrender maybe? Meh. I’m in!
Oh, and in between Christmas and NY. I get the week off at my new job (happy dance commencing….now!).
I’m playing catch-up here. I’ve read only one AQ The Paid Companion, and I enjoyed it very much. I gather from what I’ve read here that a strong, intelligent, independent heroine is a common thread. I’m sure I’ll enjoy Scandal as well. I have so much committed reading to do that I don’t have time for much discretionary reading, but I’m sure I’ll find time to fit this one in. Looking forward to the chat whenever it is.
building49 – even 49 bookcases would not be enough
i’ve never read anything by Amanda Quick, but i just downloaded my copy last night.
As for the day of the book chat, either before Christmas or after is fine with me.
I think that after Christmas would be a great time. That will give folks something to read on planes, trains, and automobiles.
thank you Louise, Carahe, I was feeling a bit out of place lol.
And Liz (and whoever you’re quoting) I have to agree with you about Danielle Steele. as a woman in her 20s, I have no interest in couples in their 40s, and even 60s. I think as Steele gets older, her characters do as well.
And I’m of the belief that the only way she puts out so many books is by employing a staff that writes them for her. they’re all the same anyway! (that last statement is based on the fact that I’ve read 3 lol. but my mother has told me the stories of so many, and really, they all run together.
I can recite vast portions of this book from memory; ok, it stars the Archtype Couple that Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krent/Jayne Castle features in all her work, but it’s still very well done. And…(drumroll) in this book, the couple _actually talk to each other before doing something really stupid_. If that’s not True Awesomeness, I don’t know what it.
Besides, I’ve always wished for a sequel featuring the Fabulous Faringdons. You just know those twin guys are getting themselves into severe trouble and romance out there in the East Indies. Pity Ms. Quick never got around to writing about them. Sigh.
“Do be sure to write!”
I read this last night and now I can’t wait for my first Sizzling Book Club chat. Also, I have a strong urge to read more of AQ’s stuff, thank goodness for ebooks and instant literary gratification.
I can’t seem to get the discount code for all Romance to work: It shows up before I log in, but once I do it will not let me apply the code.
Did I miss the boat on this one?