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This fifth book in the Pink Carnation series stars Lady Charlotte Landsdowne who is the granddaughter of the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale and Robert, Duke of Dovesdale, who has just returned from a long sojourn in the army in India.

Robert arrives home just at Christmas time and reconnects with the dreamy little girl he met when she was nine. Charlotte has always been dreamy and imaginative and she has cast Robert as her own knight in shining armor. Unfortunately Robert's main purpose for coming home is to track down the man who killed his mentor in a friendly fire shooting. To do that, he has to become a member of the fast and dissolute Hellsfire Club. He thinks the best way to protect Charlotte is to break her heart by saying that their romance was just a product of the season and proximity.

Charlotte is changed by Robert's dismissal of their love. She becomes more cynical and less trusting. When she stumbles onto a plot to harm George III, she calls on her own skills and talents to solve the problem and becomes her own knight in shining armor. Robert will have his work cut out for him getting back into Charlotte's good graces.

Meanwhile, Eloise and Colin are currently living together at his home in Sussex where all the historical papers that she needs for her dissertation have been stored. Eloise's most recent dilemma has to do with the fact that she doesn't know what Colin does for a living. For some reason, she is determined not to ask and he is reluctant to tell her anyway. I liked the conclusion that she jumped to but had already guessed what his actual job was.

This is a fun series that keeps getting better and better as it continues. I can't wait to go to India for the next installment.


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The Temptation of the Night Jasmine Pink Carnation Lauren Willig 9780525950967 Books Reviews

This is #5 in the Pink Carnation series. I love this series of books, but this one isn't quite as compelling as the other four. I am not sure I learned anything very different about any of the recurring characters. It doesn't seem that anything is really at stake or that it matters in the big picture. But I will stick with the series and can't wait for book six.
I was underwhelmed by this book in the series. I loved the growth of Charlotte through the book and her realizations about love and marriage but the rest of the book just never clicked. I never got swept up by Robert or the intrigue of this book's spies and mysteries. I wanted to but it never happened. Eloise and Colin were a bit of a disappointment as well. The author tries to throw a stumbling block their way but it wasn't convincing in the least. I wanted to be swept away by this book but it never happened for me. I'll most likely read the next (if there is one) but I may get it from the library rather than buy it.
I suppose there comes a time and in this case, by the fifth book, that ideas run thin. This particular installment in the Pink Carnation series is being hailed as a modern Pride and Prejudice. About the only thing the two novels have in common is the time period and clothes. It seems Willig simply borrowed the basic plot to fill in the blanks for this lukewarm scheme. The villain, the Night Jasmine, is barely present. Instead, he moves like a cardboard figure throughout the story, making cameo appearances before darting off into the night. Eloise and Collin are about as vanilla as can be, disappointingly so, since this is the beginning of a budding transatlantic relationship. Collin's mysterious secret is just as steamy as their sex life, not much of one. The introduction of the Hellfire Club has enormous promise, but lacks intrigue. Willig simply pulls from rushed research and creates a fictional character to helm the ship. However, it too is flat and provides no more sinister insight than a quick Google search would get the reader on the subject. This one just didn't do it for me. It was pieced together with some history and characters borrowed from previous books -- but the new additions flopped like fish out of water. Sadly, Charlotte and Robert failed to fill the huge promise of another Elizabeth and Mr. D'arcy.
Lauren Willig continues her Pink Carnation series wonderfully with the quiet heroine Charlotte. It must be difficult to set the stories in the English society time of the early 1800's and not make all the females milksops on the marriage mart. Ms. Willing gives her characters the right amount of individual independent character, yet make the stories remain true to the time. I also enjoy the 2 different scenarios that proceed through the book. It definitely pulls you on to the next book in the series.
Ms. Willig's Pink Carnation series is one of my guilty pleasures, but I am disappointed that the past two installments that I have read--first Crimson Rose, and now this one--are simply not up to par with the first three books in the series. That could be the conspicuous lack of a scandalous love scene or simply that the characters and their story aren't as identifiable/believable as those in Ms. Willig's first three novels. For example. she threw in this unicorn theme some pages into the book, and kept trying to drag it back at what seemed to be inopportune times. This is the type of thing that i feel an editor should have caught and cut immediately, because no matter how much the author tried to force it into the story, it felt exactly like that--it was being forced into the story. And on the other hand, there was an entire backstory dealing with Robert and his father that was mentioned in passing several times and probably should have been elaborated upon, but was eventually dropped entirely as Ms. Willig rushed to the ending of this particular story.

Although Ms. Willig took some liberties with the storyline in Night Jasmine, even as a history buff I did not feel that these liberties were out of line. I would rate this novel three out of five stars, because even though it didn't draw me in as much as the first three did, I was still interested enough to enjoy reading it. I will definitely keep reading the series and simply hope that in the future, her characters revert back to being as well portrayed as they were in Pink Carnation, Black Tulip, and Emerald Ring.
This fifth book in the Pink Carnation series stars Lady Charlotte Landsdowne who is the granddaughter of the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale and Robert, Duke of Dovesdale, who has just returned from a long sojourn in the army in India.

Robert arrives home just at Christmas time and reconnects with the dreamy little girl he met when she was nine. Charlotte has always been dreamy and imaginative and she has cast Robert as her own knight in shining armor. Unfortunately Robert's main purpose for coming home is to track down the man who killed his mentor in a friendly fire shooting. To do that, he has to become a member of the fast and dissolute Hellsfire Club. He thinks the best way to protect Charlotte is to break her heart by saying that their romance was just a product of the season and proximity.

Charlotte is changed by Robert's dismissal of their love. She becomes more cynical and less trusting. When she stumbles onto a plot to harm George III, she calls on her own skills and talents to solve the problem and becomes her own knight in shining armor. Robert will have his work cut out for him getting back into Charlotte's good graces.

Meanwhile, Eloise and Colin are currently living together at his home in Sussex where all the historical papers that she needs for her dissertation have been stored. Eloise's most recent dilemma has to do with the fact that she doesn't know what Colin does for a living. For some reason, she is determined not to ask and he is reluctant to tell her anyway. I liked the conclusion that she jumped to but had already guessed what his actual job was.

This is a fun series that keeps getting better and better as it continues. I can't wait to go to India for the next installment.