Lucifer and the Angel by Barbara Cartland

Lucifer and the Angel Reviews

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  Debbie DiFiore

  Lather Rinse Repeat! I didn't like this offering by BC. I liked parts of it but overall disappointed. Heroine is helping her Great Aunt Mable who decides she needs to marry the disgusting old Parson of her church. The heroine runs away, what a shocker, and runs into the man she had met twice before, the hero. He gets his Mother to hire her and take her away. He then goes to his married lover, has sex and then goes back home to pick a wife. He has a ball and three candidates picked out. His mother invites the heroine too because she has really helped her feel better again. The heroine is very sweet and the ball goes off without a hitch really. Except for the guy who tried to force the heroine to kiss him. Hero saved her of course. So who does he pick for his wife? Who cares by this point but I persevered and there was an HEA. This time they went to the Heavens. I am out of Jack Fire. This drinking game is out of control. I may have to take a break from my Cartland-athon and try and sober up.
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  Nadia

  Well, I know what I said about every fifth of her book, and it was pretty much true, cause I dropped three of them in between :) but this one I actually liked pretty much. It was nice read. I only wonder if Anita's big sister found love or just marriage of convenience? What i don't like about that kind of romances that when in the beginning relatives separate then usually author does't tell how they ended up. Like when main heroes finally found their happy ending nothing else matters anymore.
  
  Ok. I liked Duke's mother very much. And i'm glad she got her share of happiness. I also liked Duke and I didn't see at all that he was cynical. Although i didn't get that story with his first love. Was she married? And if so what he expected from her and didn't get? I guess divorce was not an option back then :)
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  Karen-Leigh

  A warm wave of fragrance and sunlight greeted them as they crossed the room to the orchids.
  
  "I told you, Anita," said the Duke, "never come to a Conservatory alone with a man unless you want him to make love to you."
  
  Her eyes widened "I ... I never ... thought . . "
  
  ". . . that it applied to me?" the Duke finished "Well, it does! That is why, my darling, I brought you here--to tell you that I love you!" He swept her into his arms, claiming her lips with his, filling her with joy that was like the sun coming through the clouds ... and like Heaven....
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  Indah Threez Lestari

  318 - 2012
  
  Misleading title. Kalau ngarep tokoh cowok yang jahat di balik wajah tampannya, bakalan kecewa.
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  Suebob16

  This is a sweet and typical BC story with some nice moments. Because of circumstances regarding their parents, the three beautiful Lavenham sisters separate to live with other relatives in hopes of finding husbands. The youngest, the imaginative Anita goes to Harrogate to live with their Great-Aunt Matilda, an eccentric old woman who runs a health spa specializing in hot baths. Matilda is not a warm person and works Anita hard doing chores around the spa. At the spa Anita is reacquainted with the Duke of Ollerton who she had briefly met before moving to Harrogate. The Duke is there with his mother the Dowager who is receiving treatment for her arthritis. The Dowager is also helping her son plan an upcoming event where he will invite three families to Ollerton in order to decide which daughter will become his bride. The Duke has no interest in marriage but is forcing himself to do this to prevent an undesirable cousin from inheriting the title in the future. Anita learns that her great-aunt intends for her to marry the local pastor, an older man she finds unappealing. Fortunately she is rescued by the Duke and his mother and returns to the Ollerton estate with them as a reader and companion for the Dowager.
  
  The plan to get to know the three young women who will be considered for the Duke reminds me of a children's story called The Little Dressmaker by Eleanor Farjeon where a young king is being nagged by his grandmother to find a bride. He relents giving his grandmother his list of physical requirements for the three ladies being considered. There would be three balls he will attend to meet them before making his decision. You need to read The Little Dressmaker to find out what happens next. 🙂 In this book the Duke has his own physical qualifications for his future wife. Of couse Anita is the opposite of the kind of woman he thinks he wants. When the Duke tells Anita what their first kiss means to him, Anita's unexpected reaction is "Ooooh!" This was my first time seeing a BC heroine use that response. I don't know if it was a high pitch squeal or meant to be more like an "Ohhhh. . ." I haven't seen any other BC heroine respond like that so far.
  
  I agree with others here who wanted an epilogue or more details about what was happening with Anita's older sisters Sarah and Daphne. It was Sarah's idea for the girls to split up, and her letter to Anita hints that she may have found the man of her dreams. We learn that Sarah has been a hit in London, but we learn nothing else afterwards. Plus no info at all on what was happening with Daphne. It would have also been nice to see a letter from their mother letting them know how she is doing in Switzerland..
  
  
  
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  Christy

  Short and silly, but it pulled me in! I’d always wanted to read a Barbara Cartland romance, after reading an article about how glamorous she was. And prolific! She wrote over 700 books in her lifetime, most of them romances. And they all ended “happily ever after,” like this one.
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  Kristi Einberg

  Perhaps little bit too much talk about Lucifer (nothing against him) but still enjoyable book. One of my biggest faves from the author. Anita was such a cutie.
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  Annie Galloza

  Sweet-easy-breezy-lite-read...not bad for 20 cents! 8-)