The Prince of Pleasure (Notorious)

With each new release, this author has grown into a very good story teller. I liked this book. When I first started reading this material, I was apprehensive. I suspected it would be a book about revenge -- a cruel, retaliation read. However, I was wrong. It wasn't. It turned into a story of nurturing passion. Although, Jordan's sex scenes are explosive, I was pleased Ms. Jordan did not relinquish this story to a "Susan Johnson" clone. Instead, the author delivered a story of harboring love. The tale of two people who meet seven years after a brutal breakup and slowly begin again. Jordan's untangles the story of a grandfather's cruel manipulation, the effect such heartless maneuvering had on two lovers. Then she highlights the remaining story with intrigue surrounding French spies and English traitors. Yet, the main thrust of the book is the scarred love story.Although this book is a sequel in the Jordan series "Notorious", fortunately it can stand alone. The character that reappears, from a parent book, plays a small role. I liked this consideration. The reader was not forced to read a repetitive historical storyline pulling the entire series together.Grace Atkinson, Ontario - Canada.

This is Nicole Jordan as we know her - a DIVA of romance, erotic sex & connecting her characters to her readers.If you've ever been so sexually "connected" to a man that words weren't necessary to make all things possible, you'll embrace this book as your own. If not, you'll learn what it feels like. Julienne is strong, unconventional, independent and experienced sexually, not a bit of "fluff" but a woman of courage and determination, and loyalty. Both to herself as well as the man she loves.Dare is a rake for sure but there's no doubt who his "love" is and what he'll do to have her. He's definately a "Prince of PLEASURE" (As Julienne is a PRINCESS of Pleasure!!)This is a novel of passion, intrigue and a complicated journey. And something I loved about this book, & is so often missing recently (in fact nearly ALWAYS!) is that there is GREAT sex from beginning to end. No waiting till the second to last chapter. No beating around the bush for 100's of pages. It's THERE & it's NOT gratutious. It is "sexual tension" NOW. It is a man and woman passionately in love and in lust and you will feel it in every sexual encounter.Mz. J pushes the envelope sexually (like she's ALWAYS been SO good at). It's raw, it's honest, it's "plain-speak", screaming, up-against-the-wall, sweating, beautiful erotic sex between two people who discover that it is what it IS because of love. This is Nicole Jordan at her best with pure, unadulterated, ROMANCE at it's best.

on how much I loved Dare and Julienne's love story. This book deserves more than five stars and it is a keeper! Out of all the hellfire league stories Ms. Jordan has written, this has got to be the tops. Seven years before, Dare and french emigree' Julienne were a young couple in love but were pulled apart by the manipulations of Dare's grandfather who felt that Julienne was not good enough for his grandson. Dare bitterly set out on a course of carnal excess and destruction and Julienne became an actress.Seven years later, Dare finds out that Julienne is in a play and sets out to take revenge for what she did to him seven years earlier, plus find out if she is involved in any treason against the crown. His real motives are pretty clear and that is the fact that he never forgot about his first love and wants to make her his for all time. Julienne never forgot the love she shared with Dare and agrees to help him flesh out the infamous Caliban that you have read about in previous books. I was enthralled by the sexual chemistry,love and romance these two shared and hated for their story to end. If you love romance, sensual sex and adventure in your romance novels, then you need to pick up a copy of this book. You will not be disappointed.

We've last seen the debonair Marquess of Wolveton, Jeremy Dare as a mischievous matchmaker in The Seduction and recently an undercover spy to ferret out the treasonous and mysterious Lord Caliban. The Prince Of Pleasure expounds on the pursuit led by Dare and his friend Lucien as new suspects in the form of Lord Riddingham and his friends Sir Stephen and Martin Perrine surface. Tension rides high when Dare meets his French emigre of an ex-flame Julienne Laurent who now wows audiences as a theatrical ingenue. Dare has long seen through her deceptions as a manipulator when she spurned Dare for Earl Ivers seven years ago. Can Ms. Jordan get any better than this? The Prince Of Pleasure fuses a fascinating historical tapestry on realpoliticks in France,The Royal Theatres, horse-racing in Newmarket as a lush backdrop to the sensuous romance between Dare and Julienne. Ms. Jordan's protagonists brim with emotions and quick witted intelligence while the romance spins from a heart-ravaging conflict where Julienne sacrifices Dare to assure his inheritance and appeases his malevolent grandfather. Mistrust hangs when he caught her with Ivers who was intent on raping her; Julienne bears shame and treason charges as she flees with her sickly mother. Pounding suspense and turbulent passion makes Nicole Jordan's latest her most balanced and sizzling read after The Seduction. The fiery and spicy scenes are never reduced to debauched prurience under Ms. Jordan's tight narration but instead glows with unfettered romance. The mystery is superbly-paced and plotted as a laudable sideshow to the well-developed romance. You finally agree that it is finally worth the wait. The Prince Of Pleasure is reading pleasure of the highest order.

I had been waiting for this book for months, and now that I have read it, I'm not dissapointed.The story is fast paced, erotic and original. It grabs you at the very beginning and you find yourself reading page after page to see where is all going.The characters are well developed and charismatic. Dare, we alrady knew from other Jordan novels (The Seduction, The Passion, Desire and Ecstasy) We knew he is sensual, charming, magnetic and shameless. But in this book he takes new dimenssions and is revealed to us in a deeper and more intimate way. He is also compassionate, understanding and capable of a depth of emotion and commitment that I didn't belive posible in him before reading this book.Julienne is the perfect match for him. No blushing miss could have made Dare fall in love with her. It takes a heroine like her, witty and corageous, with that mixture of sensuality and vulnerability to bring the Prince of Pleasure to his knees.The chemistry beween them is electric, the dialogue is witty and the love scenes red hot.I paricularly liked the theater scene, where Dare challeges her to the wager in front of the whole audience. I loved the fact that even though he thought she had betrayed him, he still could not help seeking her out and falling in love with her all over again. In spite of all the hurt and mistrust, they still needed each other and were drawn together by their hearts desires even against their better judgement. Their love was one that could survive intrigue, betrayal, lies, time and distance.However, to be objective, I must say that there are a few things about this book that I did not find very convincing. One of them was the reason for their break up all those years ago. It did not seem at all justified. I would think that for a person in Julienne's situation, the logical and sensible thing to do after being threatened by Dare's grandfather would be to turn to him for protection and face the problems together as a couple. Instead she pushes him out of her life trying to be "noble" and "sacrifice" herself for him. If they were in love, she should have given Dare the option of deciding for himself what he wanted to do, not make the choices for him. She made her decision assuming that Dare would be happier with his title and money than with her, and that only proves that she did not have enough faith in his love. With her actions she only caused a lot of pain and unhappiness for both of them. Also, how the hell could Dare belive Julienne had been cheating on him right from the start? If I remember correctly, Julienne was a virgin the first time they were together, I should think that a man of Dare's experience would have realized that. Her innocence should have been proof enough against Lord Ivers accusation that they were lovers even before Dare and Julienne met each other.However, if you can get pass those details, the book is a real Pleasure to read.