Title: The Pleasure of Your Kiss
Author: Teresa Medeiros
Genre: Historical Romance
Year Published: 2011
Number of Pages: 506 pages
Date Read: 8/23/2012
Series: Burke Brothers #1
Publisher: Pocket Star
Source: Library
Content Rating: Ages 16+ (Sex Scenes)
After hearing that Teresa Medeiros has a new romance novel being released, being the big romance novel fan that I am, I just had to pick up this book! Well, Teresa Medeiros’ newest book “The Pleasure of Your Kiss” really took me on a wild and sensual ride that I had never been on when reading other romance novels and has now gotten me looking forward to other new romance novels from Teresa Medeiros!
Clarinda Cardew was on her way to England
to marry the rich and powerful duke Maximillian Burke, but then she and her
friend Penelope Montmorency (Poppy) are ambushed by pirates and she ends up in
the arms of a rich and powerful sultan of Morocco called Zin al-Farouk
(Farouk) who happens to own a luminous harem!
At the same time, legendary adventurer Ashton Burke is summoned by his
brother Maximillian Burke to go and retrieve Clarinda from the sultan’s
clutches. Unfortunately, Ashton Burke
used to have a blossoming romance with Clarinda Cardew years ago until he broke
her heart by leaving her for unknown reasons and when he actually goes on the
quest to retrieve Clarinda from the sultan, he will soon realize that his
romance with Clarinda will soon blossomed again in a shocking way that could
change their world forever!
Again, after I had heard that Teresa Medeiros was making another romance novel, my inner fan-girl
soul was kicked up into high gear and I just had to get this book! Well, after reading this book, I was impressed
that Teresa Medeiros’ writing is
better than ever as this romance novel was clearly more unusual than the usual
romance novels I usually pick up! For
one thing, this romance novel takes place in a harem, which I did find a bit
unusual to put into a romance novel since the story would usually focus on the
two romantic interests in the story.
However, I felt that having the story take place in a harem added a nice
touch to the story and provided so much uniqueness from the standard romance
novel. I just loved almost all of the
characters involved in this novel as Teresa
Medeiros made each character truly stand out from each other. Clarinda Cardew was a truly inspiring heroine
as she is shown to be a strong willed woman who refuses to let anyone run her life. Also, just hearing about how she was
struggling in trying to move on with her life when Ashton Burke left her years
ago was a truly heartbreaking aspect of her character that made me really feel
sorry for her and I usually wished her the best during this story. Ashton Burke was a truly unique type of hero
as he is known as an adventurer and I loved the way that he can outsmart any
enemy he comes across and gets what he wants.
I also loved his devil-may-care attitude that he has become so famous
for and it was interesting in seeing how he wanted to rekindled the love that
he and Clarinda had lost when he left her years ago. But the relationship I was more invested in
was between Farouk and Poppy since Ashton and Clarinda were spending the
majority of the book trying to rekindle their relationship. Farouk and Poppy’s relationship with each
other was more interesting because it was set up more like the two of them
gaining interest in each other rather than regain their lost love and it was
interesting in seeing how Poppy is able to break down Farouk’s serious nature by
offering him sweets most of the time.
For anyone who does not like sex scenes, there are a couple
of explicit sex scenes in this book, so it would be best to skim over these
scenes. Also, just a brief nitpick, but
I wanted to see more romance scenes between Clarinda and Ashton since the
majority of the book is spent on Ashton trying to rescue Clarinda from the
sultan. Now, I did not mind too much
about the part where Ashton is trying to rescue Clarinda, but I wanted to hear
more “sexy” talk between the two characters so I could actually melt away in
ecstasy whenever I hear these two characters flirting with each other.
Overall, even though I wanted more romance between Clarinda
and Ashton, “The Pleasure of Your Kiss”
is a truly unique and brilliant book that romance novels fans will eat up for
many years to come!
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