Two years ago, with
her reputation already in jeopardy, Miss Grace Hamilton gave herself to a
powerful, compelling stranger in one night of delicious, quivering ecstasy.
Wild, bold, and wickedly sensual, Devlin Sharpe is a highwayman and pirate – a
scoundrel whose world is ruled solely by pleasure. And now he has returned to
claim Grace again, vowing to make up for the time they’ve lost, to take her to
the heights of carnal abandon and show her the exquisite bliss of exploring her
darkest, most decadent fantasies…
Hot Silk by Sharon Page is the third book about
Rodesson’s daughters or the Hamilton sisters. Technically it’s not a trilogy
but it’s nice to know what happened to each one of the girls. This book is
about Grace Hamilton, the youngest of the three.
In Hot Silk Grace Hamilton has sex with Lord Wesley.
He promises marriage to get her to agree and then reneges immediately. As she’s
running away she meets Devlin Sharpe. They spend a night together and then they
spend two years apart. Devlin gets her back by kidnapping her on the King’s
Highway. They have some adventures and then Devlin turns himself in in an
attempt to make himself noble enough to have her. She breaks him out of jail
and they leave the country.
This book is entertaining. Grace doesn’t want to admit that
she loves being with Devlin and fights it for a while. Devlin knows that he has
feelings for her but is hoping that if he spends time with her that he’ll get
her out of his system. In the end they both realize that they love each other and
are willing to make changes to make themselves better for the other person.
There are a few funny parts in this book that make it worth
reading. The one I particularly like is when Devlin confronts Lord Wesley for
his treatment of Grace.
“Lord Wesley attacked
you? What did you do in return?”
“I took that stupid
knife off of him, took him over my knee, and spanked him.”
“You didn’t! You
couldn’t have possibly done so!”
He calmly peeled off
his glove and winked. “I thought my hand might still be red. My palm is still
stinging. I felt child-ish, bullying behavior deserved a child’s punishment. I
would have used a belt on him, but the coward fled out into the gardens.”
It was so funny that something like that would happen in
this book. In high society, British aristocracy, regency England and a full
grown man gets spanked by his brother.
There was one part that disturbed me but it was integral to
the play out of the story. Grace was constantly trying to go see her
grandmother, the Countess of Warren. Devlin finally gives in and takes her to
go see the woman. The Countess is rude, cutting, and just plain cruel. The
point behind it was that Grace needed to learn that she had to accept herself
and not constantly worry about waiting for society to accept her. Devlin had
learned that lesson before and now Grace had to learn it. But at the same time
it’s hard to read the grandmother being such an overwhelmingly hateful bitch. I
know there was a reason but I didn’t enjoy reading that part.
In comparison to the other two books this one is different.
It is on a different level and in truth should not be compared to Sin
and Black Silk. It would be hard not to if you read them right in a row
but the characters are similar but vastly different. I would go so far as to
say that Hot Silk is a ‘sister’ book to the others.
Overall Hot Silk is a book about the characters
coming to terms with growing up and the events in life that suck but have to
happen. In the end I am rating this book 4 stars.
Publisher: Aphrodisia a Kensington Book
ISBN-13: 978-0-7582-1491-1
Price: $12.95 (cover)
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