This is my favourite JL book. For me, it is the perfect romance, it has everything: love, passion, laughs, adventure. The characters and storyline are perfect: the ex-pirate rogue - that's gentleman pirate, pardon me James :) - , British lord on the side, handsome, sarcastic, who has sworn never to get married and who thinks no woman will be more to him than a mistress, meets his equal and downfall in an adventurous American girl, who hates all things English and aristocratic, as she is forced to impersonate his cabin boy in order to get home to America. They fight, they laugh, they make love, but - of course - they cannot be together since he's not ready yet to commit himself and she knows this.
The situation she is put in as his cabin boy (of course he knows she's a woman, but there are so many possibilities to this seduction game that he cannot resist), as she slowly grows attracted to him and doesn't even know it yet, generate endless laughs. Georgina has a funny way of talking to herself (or to her conscience), like Megan in Man of my Dreams, which allows you to know her for the wonderful funny and smart girl that she is and makes you understand why James falls for her. As for the other way around, what girl wouldn't fall in love with a handsome pirate who happens to make you feel like you're in heaven, makes you laugh and gives you everything you want?
After she leaves him just as he was about to propose to her to be his mistress ("Good God, James, you were going to go *that* far?" as his friend Connie puts it), he realizes he can't part with her just yet and makes a wonderful scene in front of all her five brothers at a big party, thus allowing himself to be "forcefully" wed to her - and then prompty thrown into jail for his pirating acts. Georgina breaks him out of jail and he "abducts" her (quote since she doesn't resist the abduction and his apparent reasons for taking her are more than forced) and takes her back to his home in England. Here, he is forced to introduce his new wife to his family (remember Regan, Tony, Roslynn?) whose reactions vary from disbelief to stupefaction and happiness. They slowly come to terms with each other and accept their love.
The journey is so wonderful, you wouldn't want to change anything in the story. I cannot praise Ms. Lindsey skill enough on this one.
This book is all that and then some!Absolutely superb!!! There is nothing I can say about this book that has not already been said, (considering the stars this book received) other than Johanna Lindsey DID IT AGAIN.
Our hero, James, is a notorious rake who "will never marry." However, when he meets Georgina . . . that all changes (after a while.) This book is not "just like all the other books" it is a real MOVER. I very strongly recommend it.reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, page 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18