School for Scandal: How to Kiss a Hero

This book is so wonderful. The words seem to reach out of the page and embrace you, and the author makes you care about the characters, and yet it still maintained a light and humorous tone. The story, incidentally, is about a young woman named Nicole, whose critical mother drops her off at a debutant farm to learn how to be a "lady." Unfortunately, Nicole is hopeless. However, she does find joy in her daily fencing lessons. Eventually, the school hires a rather infamous war hero ("Bullocksing Brown," I believe it was)to teach her the finer points of sword play, and things generally progress from those phallic symbols and onward, until Nicole's younger brother gets wind of the affair, and then the fur begins to fly!The end was a little murky, not to mention blaringly unrealistic (I thought the main characters' reunion would have been more poignant had it come about without all the kidnapping, etc.), but I still list this book as one of my favorites. A definite keeper!

If you're looking for a romp of a romance that turns every rule in the book on end, you've got to try this one! I read it after a friend strongly recommended it, and I loved it from start to finish. Great dialogue, tender and touching love scenes, and a very humorous plot involving a girls' "finishing school" that is anything but. Nichola is both strong and vulnerable, and Lord Brian Boru is one hot hero bad knee or not...). I highly, highly recommend this book.

This is one good book. It's funny but has some serious things to say about relationships between men and women, now as well as in days of old. Nichola is her own person and so is Brian and it's neat they way they find each other via the countess. The idea that there was a place back then that would teach girls to believe in themselves is wonderful. I wish I'd had teachers like those. I got a little confused by some of the history, but it doesn't matter. This is a novel. I can't wait to read Her next School for Scandal book.

Sandy Hingston just gets better and better! I've read all three of her books, and this is the best yet. It's the story of a tomboy, Nichola Hainesworth, who is sent to what she presumes will be a very proper finishing school but turns out to be--well, a school for scandal! Nichola is very smart and funny, and Brian is definitely sexy! The idea of setting the book in a school for girls is wonderful. I loved all of Nichola's roommates and their back-and-forth. And Mrs. Treadwell, the headmistress, and Madame are great characters, too. The fencing scenes are beautifully written, and the story is so fresh and believable--I really felt I knew these people! The scene where Nichola is fencing with Lord Wallingford made me laugh out oud--I knew EXACTLY how she felt! (Can't say more, or I'll give it away.) From my experience, you can't go wrong reading Hingston. I can't wait for the next "School for Scandal" book to come out!

In 1811, Countess Christiane d'Oliveri returns to England after being abroad for twenty years. She meets her best friend Mrs. Evelyn Treadwell. Envious mothers throughout the nation have placed Evelyn on a pedestal because her daughter Vanessa married so above her station. Evelyn is unhappy with the match because Vanessa has turned into another society matron. Evelyn blames herself as she taught Vanessa to flirt instead of preparing her for life. When Christiane suggests they take advantage of Evelyn's reputation by opening up a school to teach young ladies about real life, Evelyn agrees. Thus, Mrs. Evelyn Treadwell's Academy for Young Ladies opens.Nicola Hainesworth is a tomboy whose desperate mother sends her packing to the Treadwell School. Surprisingly, Nicola enjoys the place, especially when Christiane provides her with fencing lessons. Her fencing skills quickly become superior to her instructor, so the school hires crippled war hero Lord Brian Boruo to further her skills. As they fence with swords, Nicola and Brian also duel with their hearts. He relishes her passion to fence. His feelings quickly turns to love. She reciprocates his emotion. Though, the honorable Brian would never foster a cripple like himself on a member of the Ton, he never factored in that Nicola always flaunted the rules. She also has been trained to live life to the fullest, and that means Brian.HOW TO KISS A HERO is an interesting Regency romance due to the secondary characters. While Nicola and Brian are a charming duo, the story line humorously centers on high society's strict rules. Sandy Hingston is heading to the top of the sub-genre, as readers will demand new novels starring Nicola's roommates set in the "School for Scandal. "Harriet Klausner