| The Devil Who Tamed Her | 
 enlarge | Author: Johanna Lindsey
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 51142
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.6
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B0012F7USW
Publication Date: June 12, 2007
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 Don't buy this!! November 21, 2008
This was just a hands down lousy book. She was trying too hard (and unsucessfully) to fit a square into a hole with her unimaginative plot theme. It was utterly awful!!! If you read The Heir, you know exactly where she yanked these two characters from. In The Heir, Ophelia was a very well developed character and In The Devil who Tamed Her, all of a sudden her bad behavior is explained away.. (VERY badly and in such an unbelievable way) and.. tada! new character we can all love and embrace.. I don't think so.. and.. she ruined Rafe too by turning him into an idiot..
Her books have been really disappointing lately but for the most part she has written some really good books worth reading so I'm not giving up on her yet!
If you have to read this book to find out on your own how bad it is then please.. borrow it or buy it used instead
Bad in all the right ways? October 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yes, it's fluff. It's not a particularly original novel, nor are the characters anything special. In fact, the heroine is a little annoying. The male lead is okay, and the supporting cast is lackluster at best. And yet... I found myself unable to put the book down. The writing style is very fluid and easy to read. The story moves along well and drags you with it. There's just something that works and kept me amused.
Still, it's not a book I'd recommend for anyone but a romance enthusiast. It's trite and cheesy and utterly predictable. I dare say it sends all sorts of bad messages, if you delve that deeply into it. But if you read it for a little bit of mindless escapism, I say it's just the thing.
I'd like to give it two separate ratings: four stars to people who enjoy romance novels, and two stars to people who aren't crazy about the genre. The closest I can do is average the two, hence the three stars.
 Never Wrong September 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You can never go wrong with Johanna Lindsey and the very low price I paid for this Hardcover book made it well worth it.
seriously sad September 12, 2008
i really am fond of Johanna Lindsey's writing - having just discovered her a couple of years ago i've hunted down everything she wrote in the historical romance genre. asides from a couple of not-so-good books she is just fantastic; so what in the world happened with this book?
The Devil Who Tamed Her follows directly after The Heir which is one of my favorites. The Heir is lively and amusing, sexy and enthralling; a book that grips you to the end. The Ophelia of The Heir is not the Ophelia of The Devil Who Tamed Her. It was like a complete 360. We go from loving to hate the snooty, beautiful Ophelia to having her be the tragic herione whom we are supposed to identify with? it doesn't make any sense; all of a sudden she's this misunderstood, compassionate person who's really a good person she's just had a rough childhood. i mean, whuh?
the whole story is just something that should not have been written in the first place, or at least Ophelia should have retained her fiesty disdain for people like she did in The Heir. its like in this story she's a completely different person, or like someone else wrote the story. the characters just seem to be completely opposite from how they were written in The Heir and the result is terrible.
its just not a well written story from a usually awesome writer.
 where is sabrina lambert? August 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i recognize the charaters from a previous book, called the heir, in which Duncan and a girl named Sabrina had wed. Whats he doing being engaged to someone else. someone please write me and explain what had happened.
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