One Night With a Prince (Royal Brotherhood (Paperback)) 
asked by dignified1 on November 7, 2006 2:21 AM
Continuing her irresistible Royal Brotherhood Series, bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries introduces the third of three half-noble half brothers -- the brashest rogue in all of London.
Proper Lady Christabel, the Marchioness of Haversham, is desperate to regain some letters that could destroy her -- so desperate that she pretends to be the mistress of notorious gaming-club owner Gavin Byrne to accompany him to a scandalous house party where she can reclaim them. But when she agreed to let Byrne coach her on how a true mistress behaves, she never suspected how very...persuasive his wicked lessons would be.
Gavin is secretly determined to find the letters himself and use them for revenge against the noble sire who abandoned him to grow up in London's worst slums. He's also delighted at how very successful his "mistress lessons" are: it won't be long before the luscious young widow is in his bed. But when Christabel catches Gavin in his own seductive net, he faces a difficult choice: to wreak the vengeance he's planned all his life, or to protect the woman he may -- to his own astonishment -- need more than revenge.
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This is my favorite Sabrina Jeffries book! It was so funny to read with great plot development and loads of laughs and steamy scenes! I agree with the "LTR" review below! - this books was so fun to read and I read every paragraph and the plot twists were also great!
reviewed by stix on November 12, 2006 5:29 AM
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This is one of the first books in a long time that I didn't skim through. I read every paragraph on every page. The book was well written with an interesting and different plot. Gavin and Christabel were both very well developed characters. You could definitely feel the sparks between the hero and heroine. Even when Gavin was dragging Christabel into compromising situations he still came out looking honorable. The more that you learned about Gavin, the more you liked him. Christabel was a very strong gun-toting, knife-wielding heroine who didn't back down to social stigmas. I really prefer the strong heroines if they are not overdone. She was just the right balance. Very good book.
reviewed by siriusfanboy on November 14, 2006 4:27 AM
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I have read the three books in this series and loved them all!!!
Really enjoyed the story line and the charcters. Very sexy, steamy and romantic. Wonderful too see Christabel let her hair down...LOL And Gavin is just sooooooooooooo HOT!!!!
Beautiful work Ms. Jeffries!!!
Really enjoyed the story line and the charcters. Very sexy, steamy and romantic. Wonderful too see Christabel let her hair down...LOL And Gavin is just sooooooooooooo HOT!!!!
Beautiful work Ms. Jeffries!!!
reviewed by redryder on November 21, 2006 11:27 PM
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One Night With A Prince by Sabrina Jeffries is the third and final installment in the Royal Brotherhood series. It tells the story of Lady Christabel, the Marchioness of Haversham, who is desperate to regain some top secret letters that could ruin her family and reputation. So in order to get the letter, she poses as Gavin Byrnes mistress who is also interested in getting the letters for himself so he can use them to get revenge on his father. After reading all of the Royal Brotherhood series book, this is the by far the best one in my humble opinion. The story line is filled with humor, drama, suspence, lots of passion, action, plenty of hearty love scenes, and juicy secrets that make the book even better. But to better understand the other characters and the plot I wouldn't recommend reading it without reading the other two previous Brotherhood books (To Pleasure A Prince & In The Princes Bed). Lastly, the epilogue in this book puts a nice and satisfying end to the Royal Brotherhood series. I would recommend this series to anyone who loves historical romance. Sabrina Jeffries is a genious-this book is an A++++!
reviewed by avi on November 22, 2006 5:27 AM
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First off, let me say that I love the work of Sabrina Jeffries. She is one of those few authors who has made it onto my auto-buy list and her books are always on my keeper shelf. Therefore, I was shocked when I barely made it past page 125 of 'One Night With A Prince'.
My problem was not with her writing style (which is always witty, entertaining, easy-to-read and fast moving), but with the characters. The hero was just too much of a rake for me to like him. He must have slept with half the women in London. Which I might have been able to get over, if it had been a part of his past and he'd reformed, but that wasn't the case.
What really spoiled his character for me was the way he justified choosing MARRIED women as mistresses. He somehow saw it as more noble, since the women would always be cared for financially by their husbands, and any children he sired would be claimed by the husbands, so as to avoid the stigma of illegitimacy. I wonder how he'd like it if the situation were reversed - would he like having to claim another man's child as his own (maybe even as his heir)?
This disgusted me. Yes, I know that many people in that era were unfaithful, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it. I can't cheer for a hero who has no morals at all. How could I believe he was a good guy deep down when there was no evidence of it? It seemed that all of his decisions were ruled by his sex drive. I want a hero who can think with his mind, instead of blindly following his lusts.
Also, the heroine was hard to warm up to. She was supposed to be this woman of goodness and moral character, but I couldn't see it. She traded it in far too easily. I felt that the hero and heroine were nothing but users, as they seemed to be just using one another. It made it hard to like either of them. I was kind of left with a 'well, they deserve each other' attitude, and not in a good way. I wasn't cheering for either of them, or for them to get together.
As I really enjoyed 'The Forbidden Lord' and 'After the Abduction' by this author, I will continue to read her books. Every author (even the favorite ones) is allowed to write a book that a reader hates, I suppose. For me, this is that book. Regrettably, I am forced to say that I don't recommend this.
My problem was not with her writing style (which is always witty, entertaining, easy-to-read and fast moving), but with the characters. The hero was just too much of a rake for me to like him. He must have slept with half the women in London. Which I might have been able to get over, if it had been a part of his past and he'd reformed, but that wasn't the case.
What really spoiled his character for me was the way he justified choosing MARRIED women as mistresses. He somehow saw it as more noble, since the women would always be cared for financially by their husbands, and any children he sired would be claimed by the husbands, so as to avoid the stigma of illegitimacy. I wonder how he'd like it if the situation were reversed - would he like having to claim another man's child as his own (maybe even as his heir)?
This disgusted me. Yes, I know that many people in that era were unfaithful, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it. I can't cheer for a hero who has no morals at all. How could I believe he was a good guy deep down when there was no evidence of it? It seemed that all of his decisions were ruled by his sex drive. I want a hero who can think with his mind, instead of blindly following his lusts.
Also, the heroine was hard to warm up to. She was supposed to be this woman of goodness and moral character, but I couldn't see it. She traded it in far too easily. I felt that the hero and heroine were nothing but users, as they seemed to be just using one another. It made it hard to like either of them. I was kind of left with a 'well, they deserve each other' attitude, and not in a good way. I wasn't cheering for either of them, or for them to get together.
As I really enjoyed 'The Forbidden Lord' and 'After the Abduction' by this author, I will continue to read her books. Every author (even the favorite ones) is allowed to write a book that a reader hates, I suppose. For me, this is that book. Regrettably, I am forced to say that I don't recommend this.
reviewed by teacher on November 29, 2006 3:59 PM