Rowena’s review of The Seduction of His Wife (The Knight Brothers #1) by Janet Chapman.
Hero: Alex Knight
Heroine: Sarah Knight
He set out to seduce her for all the wrong reasons — but found himself falling in love with her for all the right ones.
Alex Knight is dead — or so everyone thinks. A widowed logger baron with a risk-taking streak, he took on a South American engineering project and was reported dead after a rebel attack. So when he turns up back in Maine very much alive, his grieving family is shocked. But the biggest shock is Alex’s, when he discovers he’s now married — to a woman he’s never met.Sarah Banks is ready for a change from running a quiet Bed & Breakfast, and working for the Knight family offers not only a bigger opportunity, but also the family life she yearns for. So she’s glad to help secure custody of Alex’s orphaned children, whom she’s come to love, by marrying their father by proxy before he’s legally declared dead. But when Alex returns, the sexy, determined woodsman upends all of Sarah’s plans. Because suddenly she’s married to a passionate stranger with an easy smile…and tumbling headlong into a fiery dance of seduction.
This book had me all warm and fuzzy all over. I didn’t want to finish reading it but couldn’t help myself, I just zipped through this book like my life depended on how fast I can read it. I absolutely loved this book and loved the characters. I loved the setting, the storyline and I loved the Knight family.
Alex was a fanastic hero. And the way he was trying to be the best hero for Sarah totally won me over because you don’t meet many guys who will willingly read a romance novel and then try to seduce his wife with the things he learned in the book.
It was so cute.
I loved Sarah, I thought she was a great heroine and she was perfect for Alex, but not just Alex. She was perfect for little Tucker and Delaney. She needed them just as much as they needed her. She loved the Knight family with all that she had and she took good care of them. It was fabulous to read about the love she had for them and the love that was returned unto her.
I loved Grady and his manipulative ways. I loved the fierce devotion he had for his sons and grandkids and I love how his heart was still big enough to love his new daughter in law, Sarah. I won’t tell you guys how the storyline is, since Jazz already took care of that, but I really did like this book and I know you guys will too. Delaney was great, the whole fishing scene was too cute and I’m so glad that Delaney stuck with her “Mom”…it was so great and then Tucker’s determination to see his Dad’s marriage to his Mom as right and real, just stole a little piece of my heart. Gosh this was good.
I loved the Knight brothers. Alex, Ethan and Paul were fabulous characters. I loved the togetherness that they had between them. They were brothers, they were friends and they respected each other and they reminded me of the Quinn brothers from Nora Roberts but they stood apart on their own. Solid heroes, solid men and I ate their page time up.
Overall, this book was a book that I enjoyed a great deal even though it’s not the most popular of books. I haven’t heard too many people who enjoyed this book but I don’t care, I love it enough for the entire world. It was the bomb!
Grade: 4.75 out of 5
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This book is available from Pocket. You can buy it here or here in e-format.
I liked it! In fact, I got the next book in the series, although it’s been languishing on my TBR pile for awhile. I find that Janet Chapman’s books aren’t necessarily keepers for me, but they are always enjoyable reads.
I liked it too, wish she would write more contemps.
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@JenM: Yeah, I liked this book. Some of my friends didn’t but I enjoyed it enough for all of us. =)
@patoct: I haven’t read anything else by her. I have loads of her boosk in my TBR pile but haven’t ever gotten around to reading them. Have you read any of her others that you’d recommend?