No Angel, Something Dangerous, Into Temptation

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	• Something Dangerous Penny Vincenzi Overlook TP, 2005 - 626 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Another wonderful achievement

The second book in the trilogy about the Lytton family is yet another wonderful achievement by Penny Vincenzi, as we follow the family through the frivolous thirties and WWII.

The war proves an enormous test for the younger generation Lyttons and shows them as individuals made of quite sterner stuff than the slightly spoilt, privileged youngsters we are first introduced to.

As all over England the women take over when the men go to war, so also do Lady Celia and her sister in law LM take charge at Lyttons. Just as they did, in fact, twenty years earlier during WWI.

The book takes us from London to Paris and New York. Destinies are met, lives changed and the young generation leave their carefree youth behind them forever.

There is one thing that bothered me a bit about this book, the relationship - or rather the lack of it - between Lady Celia and her ex-lover, the handsome author Sebastian. I think that after the way their love affair was presented in "No Angel", as "the love of a lifetime", their almost pragmatic friendship throughout the book did not quite ring through. Sebastian's marriage to Pandora, a woman he loves desperately and grieves for the rest of his life when she dies in childbirth, further emphasizes the disaccordance I felt with that whole situation.
I have still to read "Into Temptation". Perhaps some enlightment is offered there!

"Something Dangerous" was not quite as suberb as "No Angel", but still marvellous reading which kept me awake late into the night.

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I love this story!

I very much enjoy Pennys writing.This is a great trilogy that you can become completely immersed in.Just like a box of fine chocolates.

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THE LADIES RULE!

Another great one from Penny Vincenzi! I read NO ANGEL and was hooked. SOMETHING DANGEROUS was also an
"i can't put it down" novel which continued with the story of the Lyttons. I found all of the characters to be
individually interesting and unique. Lady Beckenham and Lady Celia are my two favorites because they have
what it takes to endure a not always easy life. Both are strong women who exude an attitude of non defeat.
I found the twins entertaining even as adults and their offspring charming.

I'm off to read the third in the trilogy, INTO TEMPTATION.

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No Angel, Something Dangerous, Into Temptation

A good story, well told, held my interest through all three volumes. I would recommend them.

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